Exhibiting Atrocity

AMY SODARO is an associate professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York. She is coeditor of Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Culture.

Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction                          1          Memorial Museums: The Emergence of a New Form                                                                    2          The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Creation of a “Living Memorial” 3          The House of Terror: “The Only One of Its Kind”                                               4          The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: Building a “Lasting Peace”                                            5          The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: “A Living Museum for Chile’s Memory”           6          The National September 11 Memorial Museum: “To Bear Solemn Witness” 7          Memorial Museums: Promises and Limits                                                                                    Notes Bibliography                                                                                                                    Index