Abstract
Museums are prominent sites of memory in contemporary cultures (Nora, 1989). They make memory sensible, collectible and transferable through the objects, documents and images on display along with the discursive practices attending their exhibition (Katriel, 1997). According to Tony Bennett, museums give rise to particular forms of ‘civic seeing’ in which ‘the civic lessons embodied in those arrangements are to be seen, understood and performed by the museum’s visitor’ (2011, p. 263). In their conserving and conservative capacity for showing what is precious (or abominable) in cultural legacies (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 2000), they can also give voice to an explicitly mobilizing agenda, turning the museum into a tool for social advocacy. As such, they do not only provide knowledge about the past but also promote a sense of ‘epistemic responsibility’ (Linell and Rommetveit, 1998) whereby knowledge prefigures action.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 71-90 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781137032720 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781349441228 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies |
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ISSN (Print) | 2634-6257 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2634-6265 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015, Irit Dekel and Tamar Katriel.
Keywords
- Memorial Museum
- Peace Education
- Social Democratic Party
- Visual Rhetoric
- Weimar Republic
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Linguistics and Language