Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-1-03-250015-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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 resource 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.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
- Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: Famines and the Making of Heritage; Part I Education – 1. Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching European Famines: A Transnational Comparison; 2. Conveying Soviet Famines: Representations of Hunger as Mass Atrocity during the Holodomor and the Leningrad Blockade in Post-War USSR Textbooks; 3.New Futures for Famine Pasts? Teaching Ireland’s Great Famine in Ontario and Quebec; Part II Memory & Commemoration – 4. Relative Absence: Dutch Memory Culture and Monuments of the Hunger Winter of 1944-45; 5.‘We Went Through a Lot That… Cannot be Discussed, Cannot be Written: Remembering the Greek Famine of the Early 1940s; 6. Holodomor Monuments on the Battlefield: Monuments and Memorials of the Great Famine (1932-33) in Post-Maidan Ukraine; Part III Musealisation – 7. Famine Clearances in the Scottish Highlands: The Musealisation of the Past and the Socio-Political Function of Museums; 8. Famine Landscapes: Finland’s ‘Skeleton Track’ in Memorials and Museums; 9. Spain’s ‘Hunger Years’: A Lack of Musealisation of a Traumatic Past; Afterword.
