1. Introducing Peace Museums
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Apsel, Joyce
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Human Rights ,Humanitarianism ,World Peace ,Activism ,Justice ,Anti-war ,Culture ,Egalitarian ,Peace Museums ,Kyoto Museum ,Nobel Peace Center ,Nuclear Disarmament ,Peace Histories ,International Peace Bureau ,Greenham Common Women’s Peace ,Permanent Exhibit ,Bertha Von Suttner ,Peace Education ,Military Expenditures ,Young Man ,La Pace ,Tokyo Air Raids ,Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum ,Norwegian Nobel Committee ,Common Women’s Peace Camp ,Asia Pacific War ,Peace Studies Program ,Eta Prisoner ,Eta Violence ,thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies ,thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies ,thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence - Abstract
Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied world-wide in recent decades. They relate stories and display artifacts—banners, diaries, and posters for example about such themes as: art and peace, antiwar histories, protest, peacekeeping and social justice and promote cultures of peace. This book introduces their different approaches from Japan, which has the largest number of sites, to Bradford, UK and Guernica, Spain. Some peace museums and centers emphasize popular peace symbols and figures, others provide alternative narratives about conscientious objection or civil disobedience, and still others are sites of persuasion, challenging the status quo about issues of war, peace, disarmament, and related issues. Introducing Peace Museums distinguishes between different types of museums that are linked to peace in name, theme or purpose and discusses the debates which surround peace museums versus museums for peace. This book is the first of its kind to critically evaluate the exhibits and activities of this group of museums, and to consider the need for a "critical peace museum studies" which analyses their varied emphasis and content. The work of an experienced specialist, this welcome introduction to peace museums considers the challenges and opportunities faced by these institutions now and in the future.
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- 2016
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