Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice [Paperback]

Introduction: Tracing the trajectory of rights in museums; Chapter 1. The duty of memory, the imperative of justice and the rise of human rights museums; Chapter 2. Confronting discrimination with museology: Liberty Osaka and the emergence of human rights museums in Japan; Chapter 3. Memory, symbols and rendering at the National Human Rights Museum in Taiwan: activating cultural approaches to transitional justice; Chapter 4. Human rights museums in Latin America: where memory and human rights coalesce; Chapter 5. Museums, justice and planetary change; Conclusion: reconciling memory and justice in relation to museum work; Index.

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum.

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum.

Presenting innovative field research conducted in new and emerging human rights museums across Asia and Latin America, the book adopts a broad museological approach. It does so by including national and community museums, as well as public and private museological initiatives, within its purview. Drawing on in-depth case studies about museums in Taiwan, Japan, Paraguay and Colombia  all discussed within their political and cultural contexts  the book examines the paradigmatic shift that has occurred within the museum field in the wake of the larger global transformations that have shaped contemporary geo-politics over the last 50 years. The diversity of geographical and political contexts, and the attention to lesser-known institutions within the canon of English museum studies literature, presents readers with a valló