Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five
exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a …

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses
and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual …

A strong emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary breadth of Memory Studies with
contributions from leading international scholars in sociology, anthropology, philosophy …

The resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the attention of tourists along
with scholars interested in studying what is known as dark tourism. Unsurprisingly, due to …

Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art …

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of
video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video …

This article sheds light on the entanglements of difficult heritage and digital media through
an ethnographic analysis of digital photography and social media practices at the Memorial …

This study explored Dutch people's expected intensity of emotional responses of a potential
visit to a concentration camp memorial site in the Netherlands. A total of 1050 online panel …

In the last decade there has been widely shared discomfort about the way Muslim minority
Germans engage with the Holocaust. They are accused of not showing empathy towards its …

Performative practices aim to transform individuals from passive spectators into socially and
morally responsible agents. Although performative practices figure prominently in Holocaust …