Selective empathy in the re-designed Imperial War Museum London: heroes and perpetrators

Koureas, Gabriel (2018) Selective empathy in the re-designed Imperial War Museum London: heroes and perpetrators. In: Bielby, C. and Murer, J.S. (eds.) Perpetrating Selves: Doing Violence, Performing Identity. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, pp. 199-221. ISBN 9783319967844.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96785-1

Abstract

Book synopsis: This volume explores violent perpetration in diverse forms from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. From National Socialist perpetration in the museum, through post-terrorist life writing to embodied performances of perpetration in cosplay, the collection draws upon a series of historical and geographical case studies, seen through the lens of a variety of texts, with a particular focus on the locus of the museum as a technology of sense making. In addition to its authored chapters, the volume includes three contributed interviews which offer a practice-led perspective on the topic. Through its wide-ranging approach to violence, the volume draws attention to the contested and gendered nature of what is constructed as ‘perpetration’. With a focus on perpetrator subjectivity or the ‘perpetrator self’, it proposes that we approach perpetration as a form of ‘doing’; and a ‘doing’ that is bound up with the ‘doing’ of one’s gendered identity more broadly. The work will be of great interest to students and scholars working on violence and perpetration in the fields of History, Literary Studies, Area Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Museum Studies, Cultural Studies, International Relations and Political Science.

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Item Type:	Book Section
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	10 Jun 2019 14:39
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 17:44
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/23965

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