The future of memory

Museums, Exhibitions, and Memories of Violence in Colombia: Trying to Remember, Jimena Perry, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole

Museums, Exhibitions, and Memories of Violence in Colombia: Trying to Remember, Jimena Perry, 2023, Routledge

Discussions of memory self-evidently look to the past in order to understand how societies come to terms in the present with trauma as they seek to heal the wounds of conflict.

It is a theme that makes Latin America a critically important focus, g…