Places of pain and shame [[electronic resource] ] : dealing with 'difficult heritage' / / edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.6/9; 363.69
• Soggetto topico: Collective memory; Cultural property; Shame
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LoganWilliam Stewart <1942-> ReevesKeir
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Remembering places of pain and shame; Part I Massacre and genocide sites; Chapter 1 Let the dead be remembered: Interpretation of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial; Chapter 2 The Hiroshima 'Peace Memorial': Transforming legacy, memories and landscapes; Chapter 3 Auschwitz-Birkenau: The challenges of heritage management following the Cold War; Chapter 4 'Dig a hole and bury the past in it': Reconciliation and the heritage of genocide in Cambodia ; Chapter 5 The Myall Creek Memorial: History, identity and reconciliationPart II Wartime internment sites; Chapter 6 Cowra Japanese War Cemetery; Chapter 7 A cave in Taiwan: Comfort women's memories and the local identity; Chapter 8 Postcolonial shame: Heritage and the forgotten pain of civilian women internees in Java; Chapter 9 Difficult memories: The independence struggle as cultural heritage in East Timor; Part III Civil and political prisons; Chapter 10: Port arthur, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia: Convict prison islands in the Antipodes ; Chapter 11 Hoa Lo Museum, Hanoi: Changing attitudes to a Vietnamese place of pain and shameChapter 12 Places of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South africa: Black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships; Chapter 13 Negotiating places of pain in post-conflict Northern Ireland: Debating the future of the Maze prison/Long Kesh; Part IV Places of benevolent internment; Chapter 14 Beauty springing from the breast of pain; Chapter 15 'No less than a palace': Kew Asylum, its planned surrounds, and its present-day residents ; Chapter 16 Between the hostel and the detention centre: Possible trajectories of migrant pain and shame in AustraliaIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely, choose to forget them. Such episodes and locations include: massacre and genocide sites, places related to prisoners of war, civil and political prisons, and places of 'benevolent' internment such as leper colonies and lunatic asylums. These sites bring shame upo
• Titolo autorizzato: Places of pain and shame
• ISBN: 1-134-05149-2; 1-281-93111-X; 9786611931117; 0-203-88503-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454039403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Key issues in cultural heritage.