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Book

Public history for a post-truth era : fighting denial through memory movements

Call Number

  • H 901 S4972 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Physical Description

x, 304 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 Guantánamo, 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." --

Contents

  • Part I: Sites of conscience
  • Snapshots from memory movement 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, the Senegal
  • Defining memory, dialogue, and action
  • Assessing impact
  • Part II: 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 and international memory movement for GTMO
  • Part III: 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
  • Part IV: Climates of inequality
  • Historical denial and the climate crisis.

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