Curating Difficult Knowledge

List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing; E.Lehrer  & C.E.Milton PART I: BEARING WITNESS BETWEEN MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITIES 'We were so far away': Exhibiting Inuit Oral Histories of Residential Schools; H.Igloliorte The Past is a Dangerous Place: the Museum as a Safe Haven; V.Szekeres Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as 'Counter-Museum'; M.E.Patterson Politics of the Past: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide at the Kigali Memorial Center; A.Sodaro PART II: VISUALIZING THE PAST Living Historically through Photographs in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Reflections on Kliptown Museum, Soweto; D.Newbury Showing and Telling: Photography Exhibitions in Israeli Discourses of Dissent; T.Katriel Visualizing Apartheid: Re-framing Truth and Reconciliation through Contemporary South African Art; E.Mosely PART III: MATERIALITY AND MEMORIAL CHALLENGES Points of No Return: Cultural Heritage and Counter-Memory in Post-Yugoslavia; A.Herscher Defacing Memory: (Un)tying Peru's Memory Knots; C.E.Milton (Mis)representations of the Jewish Past in Poland's Memoryscapes: Nationalism, Religion and Political Economies of Commemoration; S.Kapralski Afterward: The Turn to Pedagogy: a Needed Conversation on the Practice of Curating Difficult Knowledge; R.I.Simon Index