Memories before the State

Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion

Joseph P. Feldman

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781978809550
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Honorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)? Memories before the State examines the discussions and debates surrounding the creation of the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion (LUM), a national museum in Peru that memorializes the country's internal armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s. Emerging from a German donation that the Peruvian government initially rejected, the Lima-based museum project experienced delays, leadership changes, and limited institutional support as planners and staff devised strategies that aligned the LUM with a new class of globalized memorial museums and responded to political realities of the country's postwar landscape. The book analyzes forms of authority that emerge as an official institution seeks to incorporate and manage diverse perspectives on recent violence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Place, Memory, and the Postwar
• 2. Enacting Postconflict Nationhood
• 3. Yuyanapaq Doesn’t Fit
• 4. “There Isn’t Just One Memory, There Are Many Memories”
• 5. Memory under Construction
• 6. Memory’s Futures
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author