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  • Lifting the Shadow

    Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums

    by Amy Sodaro ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that focus on slavery and its ongoing violent legacies, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, and Greenwood Rising, which commemorates the 1921 ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Exhibiting Atrocity

    Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence

    by Amy Sodaro ...
    Honorable Mention, 2021 Outstanding First Book Award from the Memory Studies AssociationToday, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Memory and the Future

    Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society

    by Yifat Gutman, Adam D. Brown, Amy Sodaro ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into the study of memory. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Museums and Mass Violence

    Edited by Paul Morrow, Amy Sodaro, Leora Kahn ...
    Series series Rethinking Memory, Representation and Human Rights
    Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address – or fail to address – the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners and a transnational set of case studies, this volume explores the potential of museums to contribute to social justice in the contemporary era. At the same time ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Interpreting Contentious Memory

    Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past

    by Edna Lomsky-Feder, Nicole Fox, Roberto Vélez-Vélez, Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, Cal Abbo, Sofya Aptekar, Claire Whitlinger, Amy Sodaro, Werner Bohleber, Carol A. Kidron, Selma Leydesdorff, Jacob Caponi, Fatma Müge Göçek ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics.This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Museums and Sites of Persuasion

    Politics, Memory and Human Rights

    Edited by Joyce Apsel, Amy Sodaro ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights, democracy and peace. Demonstrating that such sites have the potential to act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation, the book also shows that there are perils in the selective memory and history that they present.Examining a range of museums, memorials and ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Museums and Communities

    The Politics of Public Culture

    Edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Steven Levine ...
    Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society. ... Read more

    $29.19 CAD

  • Experiencing Cities

    by Mark Hutter ...
    Series series The Metropolis and Modern Life
    The fourth edition of Mark Hutter’s Experiencing Cities examines cities and larger metropolitan areas within a truly global framework, lending readers much to understand and appreciate about the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people residing in cities.Beginning with the emergence of the first urban centers and continuing to examine the present ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Curating America's Painful Past

    Memory, Museums, and the National Imagination

    by Tim Gruenewald ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Honorable Mention: National Council Public History Book AwardDuring the global Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, many called upon the United States to finally face its painful past. Tim Gruenewald’s new book is an in-depth investigation of how that past is currently remembered at the national museums in Washington, DC. Curating America’s Painful Past reveals how the tragic past is either ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Practicing Decoloniality in Museums

    A Guide with Global Examples

    by Csilla Ariese, Magdalena Wróblewska ...
    The cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. Amidst those who have argued that an institution as deeply colonial as the museum cannot truly be decolonized, museum staff and museologists have been approaching the issue ... Read more

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  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband

    In Defense of Black Studies

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • Four Walls and a Roof

    The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    by Reinier de Graaf ...
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.”—The EconomistArchitecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form... ... Read more

    $28.19 CAD