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Famines and the making of heritage / edited by Marguérite Corporaal and Ingrid de Zwarte
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9781040088050
- 9781040088043
- 9781003391524
- Famines -- Europe -- 19th century
- Famines - Europe - Histoire - 19e siècle
- Famines - Europe - Histoire - 20e siècle
- HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- Art / Museum Studies
- Europe -- 19th century
- Europe - Conditions économiques - 1789-1900
- Europe - Conditions économiques - 20e siècle
- 363.8094 23/eng/20240702
- HC240.9.F3
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Summary: "This volume is the first book to bring together ground-breaking research on the role of European famines in the 19th and 20th centuries in relation to heritage making, museology, commemoration, education and monument creation. The presence of these famine pasts continues to be felt in the immediate present: in traditional and social media, museums, and class rooms, as well as through monuments and activities surrounding commemorations. Furthermore, these European famines have often been politicised in public debates, such as those regarding the recent economic crisis, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and refugee crisis, or the current war instigated by Russia in Ukraine. The book chapters, written by famine experts from across Europe and North America, adopt a pioneering transnational perspective, and discuss issues such as contestable and repressed heritage, materiality, dark tourism, education on famines, oral history, multidirectional memory, and visceral empathy. Questions that are addressed include: why are educational curricula and practices in schools and on heritage sites region- or nation-oriented or transnational, and do they emphasise conflict or mutual understanding? How do present issues of European concern - such as globalisation, commodification, human rights, poverty and migration - intersect with the heritage and memory of modern European famines? What role do emigrant and diasporic communities within and outside Europe play in the development of famine heritage and educational practices? And to what extent is famine heritage accessible to and involving immigrants from outside Europe? The collection is thematically arranged according to three strands: education, the representation of European famines in monuments as well as their function in commemoration practices, and how these famines are depicted in museums. This volume provides a crucial resources for museum and heritage professionals, scholars and students working on difficult or dark heritages, as well as those interested in the study of famines and legacies of troubled pasts in a more general sense. It will also be of interest to those working on modern Europe from the perspective of Memory Studies, Educational Studies, History, Literature, and Cultural Studies"--PPN: PPN: 1916208738Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Famines and the making of heritage -- Retrieving famine pasts -- Three areas of heritage making -- Transnational perspectives and directions -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Education -- 1. Challenges and opportunities in teaching European famines: A transnational comparison -- Famine education and textbook analysis -- Victims, perpetrators, and implicated subjects -- Transnational perspectives: Opportunities beyond the textbook -- Future directions -- Notes -- References -- 2. Conveying Soviet famines: Representations of hunger as mass atrocity during the Holodomor and the Leningrad Blockade in post-war USSR Textbooks -- History textbooks as historical sources and their position in the Soviet dictatorship -- Soviet famines, mass atrocity, and collective memory -- The Holodomor in Soviet textbooks -- The Leningrad Blockade in Soviet textbooks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. New futures for famine pasts?: Teaching Ireland's Great Famine in Ontario and Quebec -- Religion, language, and the development of school systems -- From Corn Laws to crowded vessels: Textbook representations of the Famine and its diaspora -- Cultural heritage and the opportunities for curriculum renewal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Memory and commemoration -- 4. Relative absence: Dutch memory culture and monuments of the Hunger Winter of 1944-45 -- Dutch memorial culture -- Monuments of the Dutch Hunger Winter -- Explaining relative absence -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 5. 'We went through a lot that ... cannot be discussed, cannot be written': Remembering the Greek Famine of the early 1940s -- The famine and its memory -- Local memory -- Individual memories and everyday memory -- Evolving memory: The economic crisis.
Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- Newspapers -- References -- 6. Holodomor monuments on the battlefield: Monuments and memorials of the Great Famine (1932-33) in post-Maidan Ukraine -- Holodomor and memory in independent Ukraine: A brief introduction -- A shared symbolic space of memory: The 1993 monument -- Changing presidents, changing memory cultures: The 2008 National Memorial -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Musealisation -- 7. Famine clearances in the Scottish Highlands: The musealisation of the past and the socio-political function of museums -- Museological developments and the history of Famine clearances in Scottish museums -- Famine clearances and the polysemy of objects in museum narratives -- Folk material culture and the representation of poverty in Highland and Island museums -- Material culture and the conundrum of famine relief -- The politics of the land, the politics of food, and museum activism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Famine landscapes: Finland's 'Skeleton Track' in memorials and museums -- 'Erected on behalf of our nameless fallen' -- Memorialising the Skeleton Track -- Exhibiting the Skeleton Track -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9. Spain's 'Hunger Years': A lack of musealisation of a traumatic past -- Memory politics in Spain (1939-2000) -- Memory politics (2000-present) -- Popular culture, memorialisation, and musealisation of hunger in Spain -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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