Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum
Chapter 1. Grounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Conversation
Chapter 2. Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Genocide: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Will to Intervene
Chapter 3. Toward Radical Transparency at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Lessons from Media Coverage during Construction
Chapter 4. Illusion and the Human Rights Museum
Spatialization and Design
Process Images: Designing the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Chapter 5. Change of Plans: Conceptualizing Inaugural Exhibits at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Chapter 6. Transcendence or Struggle? Top-Down and Bottom-Up Narratives of Human Rights
Chapter 7. Engaging Machines: Experience, Empathy, and the Modern Museum
Curatorial Challenges
Chapter 8. Curatorial Practice and Learning from Difficult Knowledge
Chapter 9. Viewer Discretion: Curatorial Strategies and Consequences of Exhibition Signage
Chapter 10. Representing Agricultural Migrant Workers in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Chapter 11. The Museology of Human Rights
Parallels and Obligations
Chapter 12. Temporalizing History toward the Future: Representing Violence and Human Rights Violations in the Military History Museum in Dresden
Chapter 13. Overcoming Illiteracy in Idea-Driven Museums: A Curatorial Conundrum
Chapter 14. Curating Action: Comparative Genocide Exhibits and the "Call to Action" at the Kigali Memorial Centre, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia
Chapter 15. What (and How) to Remember? Spaces for Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Chapter 16. Beyond Difficult Histories: First Nations, the Right to Culture, and the Obligation of Redress
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Contributors