Raina Fox
Raina Fox, MA, has a background in memory politics, museum studies, transitional and social justice. She is Program Partnerships Director for Millennium Campus Network, a Boston-based non profit and global network of undergraduate students working to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She is a Board Member for the Boston Network for International Development and a member of the UN Women Working Group on youth and gender equality. She holds her MA in Public Humanities from Brown University and her BA in Art History and Cultural Studies from Macalester College.
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study of survivor docents at the Japanese American National Museum,
a site that has come to represent and serve as a form of reparation
for the traumatic memory of Japanese American internment during
World War II. As a longer term supplement to trials or Truth and
Reconciliation Commissions or an alternative in cases where no such
structures exist, I illustrate how the museum tour becomes an empowering platform for survivors of the American Internment camps to work through and instrumentalize traumatic memories within the dialogic museum sphere, even as this alternative space forms its own new silences. Thus, by applying the very theories and criticisms through
which scholars of memory politics evaluate official platforms of transitional justice, I aim to complicate and evaluate this alternative form of testimony, and in so doing explore areas of growth in the fields of both transitional justice and museum practice. Bridging the gap between testimony, oral history, and museum interpretation, survivor docents represent a sustained dialogic approach to history that perpetuates, preserves, and activates rather than resolves discourse around contentious memories.
study of survivor docents at the Japanese American National Museum,
a site that has come to represent and serve as a form of reparation
for the traumatic memory of Japanese American internment during
World War II. As a longer term supplement to trials or Truth and
Reconciliation Commissions or an alternative in cases where no such
structures exist, I illustrate how the museum tour becomes an empowering platform for survivors of the American Internment camps to work through and instrumentalize traumatic memories within the dialogic museum sphere, even as this alternative space forms its own new silences. Thus, by applying the very theories and criticisms through
which scholars of memory politics evaluate official platforms of transitional justice, I aim to complicate and evaluate this alternative form of testimony, and in so doing explore areas of growth in the fields of both transitional justice and museum practice. Bridging the gap between testimony, oral history, and museum interpretation, survivor docents represent a sustained dialogic approach to history that perpetuates, preserves, and activates rather than resolves discourse around contentious memories.