Cynthia A Milton

Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics,the contributorsexplore the challenges of bearing witness to...

The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule

People who have lived through authoritarian rule have stories to tell. They want to tell their truths: truths that have been silenced, truths that have been censored, truths that are still uncomfortable. But how do individuals begin to speak about a political past that was too horrible for words, es...

The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador

This book analyzes the diverse understandings of poverty in a multiracial colonial society, eighteenth-century Quito. It shows that in a colonial world both a pauper and a landowner could lay claim to assistance as the "deserving poor" while the vast majority of the impoverished Andean population di...

Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth Telling in Post–Shining Path Peru

Art from a Fractured Past is an interdisciplinary collection examining how Peruvians are representing, and attempting to make sense of, the violence of the 1980s and 1990s through art, including drawings, monuments, fiction, theater, and cinema.

Curating Difficult Knowledge. Palgrave. 2011.

The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador

The Art Of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule

The Art Of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule