Books
Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11:
Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum
Memorial Museums are evocative spaces. Drawing on aesthetic practices deeply rooted in representing the “unrepresentability” of cultural trauma, most notably the Holocaust, Memorial Museums are powerful, popular mediums for establishing cultural values, asking the visitor to contemplate “Who am I?” in relation to the difficult histories on display. This book critically examines the institutional curation of traumatic memory at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and its evocative power as a cultural storyteller. …
Reviewed in the AAG Review of Books!
Affective Architectures:
More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage
How do places manipulate our emotions? How are spaces affectious in their articulation and design? This book provides theoretical frameworks for exploring affective dimensions of architectural sites based on the notion that heritage, as an embodied experience, is embedded in places and spaces. …
