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Title Places of pain and shame : dealing with 'difficult heritage' / edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Key issues in cultural heritage
Key issues in cultural heritage.
Contents Chapter Introduction: Remembering places of pain and shame / WILLIAM LOGAN -- part Part I Massacre and genocide sites -- chapter 1 Let the dead be remembered: Interpretation of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial / QIAN FENGQI -- chapter 2 The Hiroshima 'Peace Memorial': Transforming legacy, memories and landscapes / YUSHI UTAKA -- chapter 3 Auschwitz-Birkenau: The challenges of heritage management following the Cold War / KATIE YOUNG -- chapter 4 'Dig a hole and bury the past in it': Reconciliation and the heritage of genocide in Cambodia / COLIN LONG -- chapter 5 The Myall Creek Memorial: History, identity and reconciliation / BRONWYN BAT TEN -- part Part II Wartime internment sites -- chapter 6 Cowra Japanese War Cemetery / AI KOBAYASHI -- chapter 7 A cave in Taiwan: Comfort women's memories and the local identity / CHOU CHING #xF6BA;YUAN -- chapter 8 Postcolonial shame: Heritage and the forgotten pain of civilian women internees in Java / JOOST COTÉ -- chapter 9 Difficult memories: The independence struggle as cultural heritage in East Timor / MICHAEL LEACH -- part Part III Civil and political prisons -- chapter 10 Port arthur, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia: Convict prison islands in the Antipodes / JANE LENNON -- chapter 11 Hoa Lo Museum, Hanoi: Changing attitudes to a Vietnamese place of pain and shame / WILLIAM LOGAN -- chapter 12 Places of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South africa: Black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships / ANGEL DAVID NIEVES -- chapter 13 Negotiating places of pain in post-conflict Northern Ireland: Debating the future of the Maze prison/Long Kesh / SARA MCDOWELL -- part Part IV Places of benevolent internment -- chapter 14 Beauty springing from the breast of pain / SPENCER LEINEWEBER -- chapter 15 'No less than a palace': Kew Asylum, its planned surrounds, and its present-day residents / KEIR REEVES -- chapter 16 Between the hostel and the detention centre: Possible trajectories of migrant pain and shame in Australia / SARA WILLS
Summary This 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cultural property -- Cross-cultural studies
Collective memory -- Cross-cultural studies
Shame -- Cross-cultural studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Collective memory
Cultural property
Shame
Kulturerbe
Kulturvergleich
Scham
Trauma's (psychologie)
Schaamte.
Culturele identiteit.
Psychologische aspecten.
Cultuurgoed.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Logan, William Stewart, 1942-
Reeves, Keir
ISBN 9780203885031
0203885031
0415454492
9780415454490
1134051492
9781134051496
9786611931117
6611931112