"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and institutions elsewhere in the world that emphasize human rights and social justice.This collection brings together authors from diverse fields—law, cultural studies, museum studies, sociology, history, political science, and literature—to critically assess the potentials and pitfalls of human rights education through “ideas” museums. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the collection’s essays will encourage museum-goers to think more deeply about the content of human rights exhibits. The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first title in the University of Manitoba Press’s Human Rights and Social Justice Series. This series publishes work that explores the quest for social justice and the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social, collective, and cultural rights.
Authors
Karen Busby, Jennifer Carter, Clint Curle, Angela Failler, Helen Fallding, Jodi Giesbrecht, Amanda Grzyb, George Jacob, Stephen Jaeger, Dirk Moses, Adam Muller, Jorge Nallim, Ken Norman, Armando Perla, David Petrasek, Ruth Phillips, Christopher Powell, Mary Reid, Roger Simon, Struan Sinclair, Andrew Woolford
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-363)
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- 323.074/712743
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- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- 9780887557828 9780887554711
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- AM101.W45
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- I34 2015eb
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- 1 electronic text (pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- Human rights museum
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- List of Illustrations 9
- Introduction 12
- The Idea of a Human Rights Museum 36
- Chapter 1 Grounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Conversation 38
- Chapter 2 Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Genocide: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Will to Intervene 51
- Chapter 3 Toward Radical Transparency at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Lessons from Media Coverage during Construction 81
- Chapter 4 Illusion and the Human Rights Museum 98
- Spatialization and Design 110
- Process Images: Designing the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 112
- Chapter 5 Change of Plans: Conceptualizing Inaugural Exhibits at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 122
- Chapter 6 Transcendence or Struggle? Top-Down and Bottom-Up Narratives of Human Rights 139
- Chapter 7 Engaging Machines: Experience, Empathy, and the Modern Museum 156
- Curatorial Challenges 174
- Chapter 8 Curatorial Practice and Learning from Difficult Knowledge 176
- Chapter 9 Viewer Discretion: Curatorial Strategies and Consequences of Exhibition Signage 191
- Chapter 10 Representing Agricultural Migrant Workers in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 205
- Chapter 11 The Museology of Human Rights 219
- Parallels and Obligations 238
- Chapter 12 Temporalizing History toward the Future: Representing Violence and Human Rights Violations in the Military History Museum in Dresden 240
- Chapter 13 Overcoming Illiteracy in Idea-Driven Museums: A Curatorial Conundrum 258
- Chapter 14 Curating Action: Comparative Genocide Exhibits and the "Call to Action" at the Kigali Memorial Centre, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia 273
- Chapter 15 What (and How) to Remember? Spaces for Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina 291
- Chapter 16 Beyond Difficult Histories: First Nations, the Right to Culture, and the Obligation of Redress 307
- Afterword 333
- Acknowledgements 344
- Bibliography 346
- Contributors 376