In the age of globalization, commemorative memory practices increasingly transcend national boundaries and change the way memories of historical violence, atrocity, and genocide are represented in the transnational memoryscape.
This article explores how the professionalization and commercialization of museums and memorials of genocide and crimes against humanity make them comprehensible to a global audience.
The analysis is based on fieldwork in Robben Island, South Africa, and a museum in Sarajevo commemorating the atrocities committed in Srebrenica in 1995, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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