Description:
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 may act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation, the book also shows that there are perils in the selective history that they present.
Review Quotes:
'The booming globalisation of historical memory since the l980s has been "musealised." Apsel and Sodaro's exemplary book draws cases from societies in five continents. These sites of memory and atrocity emphasise universal human rights, and peace.' - Nigel Young, UK
'Through a critical interrogation of memorial museums and monuments, this book provides new and much deeper understanding of the authority of the heritage space. It brings us on a journey that examines how successive generations remember, negotiate, interpret and display difficult pasts in an attempt to shape contemporary attitudes and behaviour.' - Elizabeth Crooke, Ulster University, Ireland