This research report focuses on the issues for participation in public
memory projects, in the light of counter-monument critiques of audiences
being ‘rendered passive’. Interviews with people who went on the 2005
March of the Living tour to Holocaust sites in Poland and then to Israel
have been analysed in terms of themes and processes of meaningmaking.
The written text of some of the material provided to them is also
analysed.
Meanings in the interviews notably occupied two discursive spaces that
seem at odds with each other. The first was the discourse around what is
a good way to memorialise – particularly when the memory is one of such
enormity as the Holocaust. The second is the discourse around tolerance
education – how do we ‘learn lessons’ from the Holocaust?
The issues for heritage interpretation and tolerance education are explored.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/4855 |
| Date | 20 May 2008 |
| Creators | Low, Carol |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 66353 bytes, 3959180 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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