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Katrin Antweiler'sb ook offers its readers an ew set of concepts and empirical studies that deepen and challengethe established understandings about politics of Holocaust remembrance.Braidingtogether questions of public narrativization and historical emplotment of the Holocaust,the international human rights project and the imperative of contemporary museums to educatea nd raise awareness, Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums shows with admirable deftness that museums, no less than prisons, clinics, or laboratories,a re sites of discursiveo perations of power,d iscipline, and docile embodiment.While Antweiler skilfullynavigates the empirical field of debates,exhibitions, installations, artefacts, and ideas found in threem useums of Holocaust remembrance in Germany, Canada,a nd South Africa, she alson eedst ob ec redited with paying careful attention to whati sn ot seen-to discursive inconsistencies and omissions she encountered duringh er fieldwork, to mnemonic myopias and exclusions, to tacit interests and agendas, as well as to power relations and structures of domination that remain hiddenf rom view.I ne ffect,t he book masterfullyc ritiques the presumed reparative effects of contemporary curatorial practices and acts of 'puttingm emory on display'-acts that Antweiler aptlyd ubs 'exhibitionary atonement'-and thus stipulatesa ni mportant reflection about the political frameworks of visibilityinr elation to the broader narrativeso fr edress for historical wrongdoing.By meticulously demonstratingits central premise-that the wayweremember the painful and difficult past is inseparable from the emergence of truth regimes, dominant norms, and citizen-subjects-the book casts into stark relief the key problem of global governmentality and globalcitizenship: thatthe notionof shared humanity and of the human as au niversal rights holder is ap olitically contested and ethicallys uspect category.D rawing expertlyo nawide spectrum of scholarlyt extsf rom memory and museum studies, governmentality theory, human rights museology, post-colonial debates, and critiquesofneo-liberalism, Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums presents the political and ethical implications of the imbricationofhuman rights with mnemonic discourses, museumdisplays,and educational programs with clarity,eloquence, and sophistication.If indeed the provocative thesis at the heart of the book is correct-that museums' capacity to disseminate knowledge and to produce memory is inseparable from the social processes of subjectification-how do we respond to these interpellations into position of moral innocence, dutiful and compassionate citizenship, and 'norm entrepreneurship'?E quallyc ritical of narrativeso fp rog-

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