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Places of pain and shame, dealing with 'difficult heritage', edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves

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Label
Places of pain and shame, dealing with 'difficult heritage', edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Places of pain and shame
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves
Series statement
Key issues in cultural heritage
Sub title
dealing with 'difficult heritage'
Summary
This is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely, choose to forget them
Table of contents
1. Remembering places of pain and shame, William S. Logan and Keir Reeves 2. Let the dead be remembered: interpretation of the Nanjing Massacre memorial, Qian Fengqi 3. The Hiroshima "Peace Memorial": Transforming Legacy, memories and landscapes, Yushi Utaka 4. Auschwitz-Birkenau: The challenges of heritage management following the cold war, Katie Young 5. "Dig a hole and bury the past in it": Reconciliation and the heritage of genocide in Cambodia, Colin Long and Keir Reeves 6. The Myall Creek Memorial: History, Identity and reconciliation, Bronwyn Batten 7. Cowra Japanese War Cemetry, Ali Kobayashi and Bart Ziino 8. A cave in Taiwan: comfort women's memories and the local identity, Chou Ching-yuan 9. Postcolonial shame: heritage and the forgotten pain of civilian women inernees in Java, Joost Cote 10. Difficult memories: the independence struggle as cultural heritage in East Timor, Michael Leach 11. Port Arthur, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia: convict prison islands in the antipodes, Jane Lennon 12. Hoa Lo Museum, Hanoi: changing attutudes to a Vietnamese place of pain and shame, William S. Logan 13. Places of Pain as tools for social justice in the "new" South Africa: black heritage preservation in the "rainbow" nation's townships, Angel David Nieves 14. Negotiating places of pain in post-conflict Northern Ireland: Debating the future of the maze/prison/Long Kesh, Sara McDowell 15. Beauty Springing from the breast of pain, Spencer Leineweber 16. "No less than a palace: Kew asylum, its planned surrounds, and its present-day residents, Keir Reeves and David Nichols 17. Between the hostel and the detention centre: possible trajectories of migrant pain and shame in Australia, Sara Wills

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