Full title: Public history for a post-truth era : fighting denial through memory movements / Liz Ševčenko.

Author/creator: Ševčenko, Liz.

Call Numbers: G 2023/0551

Record Identifier: 74VKabwzeyzX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: x, 304 pages ; 24 cm., , , , Part I: Sites of conscience -- Snapshots from memory movement at the turn of the millennium, album 1: Heritage and human rights in New York, Nottinghamshire, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town -- Snapshots from memory movements at the turn of the millennium, album 2: Truth without accountability in Bangladesh, Czech Republic, Russia, the US, the Senegal -- Defining memory, dialogue, and action -- Assessing impact -- Part II: Guantánamo public memory and reckoning with “Who we are” -- How GTMO's history has been shaped by denial: Public memory and public policy in America's state of exception -- Remembering and reckoning with GTMO -- Mobilizing and international memory movement for GTMO -- Part III: States of Incarceration -- Public memory and the US carceral state -- Remembering Rikers: Participatory public memory for public policy -- Local stories, national genealogy: memory movements against mass incarceration -- Part IV: Climates of inequality -- Historical denial and the climate crisis.

Publishers: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Notes: Global perspectives on public history Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 901

MMS ID: 991024519920302626