Museum Transformations

List of Illustrations ix
 
Editors xiii
 
General Editors xiv
 
Contributors xv
 
Editors' Preface to Museum Transformations and The International Handbooks of Museum Studies xvii
 
Introduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization xxv
Annie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips
 
Part I Difficult Histories 1
 
1. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions 3
Sibylle Quack
 
2. Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India 29
Kavita Singh
 
3. The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia 61
Bain Attwood
 
4. Where are the Children? and "We Were So Far Away ...": Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation 85
Jonathan Dewar
 
5. Recirculating Images of the "Terrorist" in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus 113
Gabriel Koureas
 
6. Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 133
Mary Bouquet
 
7. "Congo As It is?": Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era Exhibition 157
Johan Lagae
 
8. Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile 181
Jens Andermann
 
9. The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women's Jail as Heritage Site 207
Annie E. Coombes
 
Part II Social Agency and the Museum 227
 
10. An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu 229
Lissant Bolton
 
11. Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum 249
Nicholas Thomas
 
12. The Blackfoot Shirts Project: "Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit" 263
Alison K. Brown and

ANNIE E. COOMBES is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she teaches museum studies and art and cultural history. She is Director of the Peltz Gallery and author of award-winning books on museums, memorialization, and the legacy of colonialism.
 
RUTH B. PHILLIPS is Canada Research Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has served as director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and teaches and publishes on Indigenous North American art and critical museology.