The Ethics of Collecting Trauma : The Role of Museums in Collecting and Displaying Contemporary Crises (Hardcover)

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Why a book on the ethics of collecting contemporary trauma is needed; Part I: Natureculture traumas ? 2. The crisis that binds us: The ethics of collecting trauma in ‘catastrophic times’; 3. A Future for Memory: Resurgence of culture-nature in the aftermath of 3.11; 4. Mapping memorialisation of pandemic experiences: Care, stewardship and guardianship; 5. Towards a higher standard: Museums, communities of trauma, and the public trust; Part II: Decolonising trauma ? 6. Poetics, politics and ethics of collecting: Two Brazillian cases; 7. Engaging with colonial collecting practices today: Practising ‘epistemic disobedience’;?Part III: The traumas of war, terrorism and forceful displacement ? 8. Ethically contested exhumations in Eastern Zimbabwe: a compromise between spiritual approaches and scientific practices; 9. Silence and Remembering: Locating the Cultural Trauma of Terrorism in London’s Museums, Archives and Memorials; 10. Ethics of care in collecting spontaneous memorials; 11. Collecting (forced) migration: the ethics of collecting ‘neglected things’; 12. Afterword; Index.