Memories before the state : postwar Peru and the place of memory, tolerance, and social inclusion /
"Memories before the State examines the discussions and debates surrounding the creation of the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion (LUM), a national museum in Peru that memorializes the country's internal armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s. Emerging from a German donation...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press
[2021]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2v55h41 |
| Zusammenfassung: | "Memories before the State examines the discussions and debates surrounding the creation of the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion (LUM), a national museum in Peru that memorializes the country's internal armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s. Emerging from a German donation that the Peruvian government initially rejected, the Lima-based museum project experienced delays, leadership changes, and limited institutional support as planners and staff devised strategies that aligned the LUM with a new class of globalized memorial museums and responded to political realities of the country's postwar landscape. Through an ethnographic study of this museum-in-progress, including vivid portrayals of LUM workers and representatives from victims' organizations, human rights NGOs, and the Peruvian armed forces, the book analyzes forms of authority that emerge as an official institution seeks to incorporate and manage diverse perspectives on recent violence"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781978809550 1978809557 9781978809574 1978809573 9781978809543 1978809549 9781978809512 1978809514 |