The idea of a human rights museum /edited by Karen Busby, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford.

Includes bibliographical references.

"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and institutions elsewhere in the world that emphasize human rights and social justice. This collection brings together authors from diverse fields--law, cultural studies, museum studies, sociology, history, political science, and literature--to critically assess the potentials and pitfalls of human rights education through "ideas" museums. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the collection's essays will encourage museum-goers to think more deeply about the content of human rights exhibits."--

The idea of a human rights museum / Karen Busby, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford -- Grounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in conversation / Ken Norman -- Protecting human rights and preventing genocide : the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the will to intervene / A. Dirk Moses -- Toward radical transparency at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights : lessons from media coverage during construction / Helen Fallding -- Illusion and the human rights museum / David Petrasek -- Change of plans : conceptualizing inaugural exhibits at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Karen Busby -- Transcendence or struggle? Top-down and bottom-up narratives of human rights / Christopher Powell -- Engaging machines : experience, empathy, and the modern museum / Adam Muller, Struan Sinclair, and Andrew Woolford -- Curatorial practice and learning from difficult knowledge / Angela Failler and Roger I. Simon -- Viewer discretion : curatorial strategies and consequences of exhibition signage / Mary Reid -- Representing agricultural migrant workers in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Armando Perla -- The museology of human rights / Jennifer Carter -- Temporalizing history toward the future : representing violence and human rights violations in the Military History Museum in Dresden / Stephan Jaeger -- Overcoming illiteracy in idea-driven museums : a curatorial conundrum / George Jacob -- Curating action : comparative genocide exhibits and the "call to action" at the Kigali Memorial Centre, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia / Amanda Grzyb -- What (and how) to remember? Spaces for memory in post-dictatorship Argentina / Jorge A. Nállim -- Beyond difficult histories : First Nations, the right to culture, and the obligation of redress / Ruth B. Phillips -- From imagination to inauguration / Jodi Giesbrecht and Clint Curle.

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