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.