Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'

ISBN-13: 9780415454490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str.

Logan William

Opis

Presents a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely, choose to forget them.

Spis treści

1. Remembering Places of Pain and Shame 2. Let the Dead be Remembered: Interpretation of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial 3. The Hiroshima "Peace Memorial": Transforming Legacy, Memories and Landscapes  4. Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Challenges of Heritage Management Following the Cold War   5. "Dig a Hole and Bury the Past in It": Reconciliation and the Heritage of Genocide in Cambodia  6. The Myall Creek Memorial: History, Identity and Reconciliation 7. Cowra Japanese War Cemetry  8. A Cave in Taiwan: Comfort Women's Memories and the Local Identity   9. Postcolonial Shame: Heritage and the Forgotten Pain of Civilian Women Internees in Java  10. Difficult Memories: The Independence Struggle as Cultural Heritage in East Timor 11. Port Arthur, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia: Convict Prison Islands in the Antipodes 12. Hoa Lo Museum, Hanoi: Changing Attitudes to a Vietnamese Place of Pain and Shame 13. Places of Pain as Tools for Social Justice in the "New" South Africa: Black Heritage Preservation in the "Rainbow" Nation's Townships 14. Negotiating Places of Pain in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: Debating the Future of the Maze/Prison/Long Kesh 15. Beauty Springing from the Breast of Pain . "No Less than a Palace: Kew Asylum, its Planned Surrounds, and its Present-Day Residents 17. Between the Hostel and the Detention Centre: Possible Trajectories of Migrant Pain and Shame in Australia

O autorze

Keir Reeves, William Logan