Museums and memory representations of violence in Colombia, 2000-2014

dc.contributor.advisorGarfield, Seth, 1967-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBrower, Benjamin Cen
dc.creatorPerry, Jimenaen
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-5102-1651en
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-10T16:52:22Zen
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:29:01Z
dc.date.available2015-11-10T16:52:22Zen
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:29:01Z
dc.date.issued2015-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2015en
dc.date.updated2015-11-10T16:52:22Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis report discusses and analyzes the ways in which some communities remember. Focusing on examples that display violence in museum settings, the main goal of this paper is to illustrate how certain social groups interpret and represent atrocities of their past. Since the decade of 2000, Colombia has seen the emergence of several memory museums that intend to account for the violence of the 1980s and 1990s. These bottom up venues are part of a process of healing and community building that serves the purpose of restoring the social fabric of the peoples affected by brutalities. In contrast, there are the top bottom initiatives, generally undergone by the state, which narrate the past in a different way. This report examines the differences in the stories told by official and non-official museums and the messages both of these venues want to convey. Drawing from sources and secondary bibliography about the National Museum of Colombia and two departmental institutions, The Hall of Never Again, Antioquia, and the Traveling Museum of the Memory of Montes de María, Sucre and Bolívar, this report describes the exhibitions of violence the coordinators of these venues had produced, what are they pursuing, and their intentions.en
dc.description.departmentHistoryen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T26P8Ven
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/32362en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectMuseumsen
dc.subjectViolenceen
dc.subjectMemoryen
dc.subjectRepresentationen
dc.subjectTraumaen
dc.titleMuseums and memory representations of violence in Colombia, 2000-2014en
dc.typeThesisen

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