Memories Before the State - 9781978809543

Memories Before the StatePostwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion\nAuthor(s): Joseph P. Feldman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978809543, 978-1978809543\nSynopsis\nHonorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)?\n\nMemories before the Stateexamines 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 countrys 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 real.