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Traumascapes

The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy

By: Maria M. Tumarkin

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Traumascapes

The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy

By: Maria M. Tumarkin

Traumascapes are a distinctive category of places transformed physically and psychically by suffering, part of a scar tissue that stretches across the world.' Maria Tumarkin grew up in the old Soviet Union, and emigrated to Australia as a teenager. In 2004, she embarked on an international odyssey to investigate and write about major sites of violence and suffering. Traumascapes is a powerful meditation on the places she visited: Bali, Berlin, Manhattan, Moscow, Port Arthur, Sarajevo, and the field in Pennsylvania where the fourth plane involved in the attacks of September 11 2001 crashed. In a time when terror and tragedy flourish these locations exhibit a compelling power, drawing pilgrims and tourists from around the world who want to understand the meaning of the traumatic events that unfolded there. In traumascapes, life goes on but the past is still unfinished business.

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288

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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ISBN 10

0522851770

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9780522851779

The Museum as a Political Instrument

Post-Soviet Memories and Conflicts

By: Maria Mikaelyan

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The Museum as a Political Instrument

Post-Soviet Memories and Conflicts

By: Maria Mikaelyan

Remembrance and commemoration of traumatic histories are among the major issues of today’s international museological practice. By means of architectural and exhibition design, contemporary museums pose questions concerning history, memory, national identity, alternative perceptions of the past. The present essay poses theoretical questions concerning the impact of a national political discourse on the commemoration of difficult and contentious pasts, as well as the top-down instrumentalization of architectural and exhibition design in the realm of contemporary Russian museological practice.

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