UID:
almahu_9949385857902882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 304 pages)
ISBN:
9781000607710
,
1000607712
,
9781003185826
,
1003185827
,
9781000607734
,
1000607739
Series Statement:
Global perspectives on public history
Content:
Public History for a Post-Truth Era explores how to combat historical denial when faith in facts is at an all-time low. Moving beyond memorial museums or documentaries, the book shares on-the-ground stories of participatory public memory movements that brought people together to grapple with the deep roots and current truths of human rights abuses. It gives an inside look at "Sites of Conscience" around the world, and the memory activists unearthing their hidden histories, from the Soviet Gulag to the slave trade in Senegal. It then follows hundreds of people joining forces across dozens of US cities to fight denial of Guantanamo, mass incarceration, and climate change. As reparations proposals proliferate in the US, the book is a resource for anyone seeking to confront historical injustices and redress their harms. Written in accessible, non-academic language, it will appeal to students, educators, or supportive citizens interested in public history, museums, or movement organizing.
Note:
Sites of conscience. Snapshots from memory movements at the turn of the millennium, album 1 : heritage and human rights in New York, Nottinghamshire, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town -- Snapshots from memory movements at the turn of the millennium, album 2 : truth without accountability in Bangladesh, Czech Republic, Russia, the US, and Senegal -- Defining memory, dialogue, and action -- Assessing impact -- Guantánamo public memory and reckoning with "who we are" : how GTMO's history has been shaped by denial : public memory and public policy in America's state of exception -- Remembering and reckoning with GTMO -- Mobilizing an international memory movement for GTMO -- States of incarceration. Public memory and the US carceral state -- Remembering Rikers : participatory public memory for public policy -- Local stories, national genealogy : memory movements against mass incarceration -- Climates of inequality. Historical denial and the climate crisis -- Conclusion : participatory public memory for truth's new era.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 1032029226
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032029221
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1032029218
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032029214
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003185826
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003185826
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