Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums (Media and Cultural Memory, 37)

Antweiler, Katrin

 
9783111627113: Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums (Media and Cultural Memory, 37)
ISBN 10: 311162711X ISBN 13: 9783111627113
Verlag: De Gruyter, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future. It compares three human rights museums and their respective emplotment of the Holocaust and seeks to illuminate how, in this specific setting, memory politics simultaneously function as future politics because they delineate a normative ideal of the citizen-subject, its set of values and aspirations for the future: that of the historically aware human rights advocate. More than an ethical practice, engaging with the Holocaust is used as a means of asserting one’s standing on "the right side of history"; the memorialisation of the Holocaust has thus become a means of governmentality, a way of governing contemporary citizen-subjects. The linking of public memory of the Holocaust with the human rights project is often presented as highly beneficial for all members of what is often called the "global community". Yet this book argues that this specific constellation of memory also has the ability to function as an exercise of power, and thus runs the risk of reinforcing structural oppression. With its novel theoretical approach this book not only contributes to Memory Studies but also connects Holocaust memory to Studies of Global Governmentality and the debate on decolonising memory politics.

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Katrin Antweiler.



Katrin Antweiler, Universität Bremen.

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Verlag
De Gruyter
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
311162711X
ISBN 13 
9783111627113
Einband
Broschiert
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
252
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