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Till, Karen E. (2011) Review: Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities. By Paul Williams. Oxford and New York: Berg. 2007. viii + 226 pp. £19.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781845204891. Cultural Geographies, 18 (3). pp. 422-423. ISSN 1474-4740
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Abstract
Memorial Museums seeks to interpret critically ‘the emerging but under-explored field of memorial
museums’ (p. 22) and to provide an international survey and evaluation of historic site museums
that document, commemorate, and represent events of human atrocity. Such a study has been long
overdue. However, Memorial Museums, which could have made a significant contribution to this
‘global institutional development’ (p. 8), provides neither a systematic examination of the history
and types of memorial museums that now exist, nor a theoretically sophisticated study. Instead, this
random collection of superficially described examples must be judged a missed opportunity.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Review; Memorial Museums; Global Rush; Commemorate; Atrocities; Paul Williams; ISBN 9781845204891; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: | 9032 |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Karen Till |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2017 14:30 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cultural Geographies |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/9032 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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