Expanding Museum Spaces: Networks of Difficult Knowledge at and Beyond the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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Notes

An image of the postcard is available through the official website of the UCCLA (2011). The UCCLA has used postcards in a variety of different lobby campaigns. An archive of those related to the CMHR as well as other campaigns is also available through their official website (2011).

See Ball and Rudling (in press) and Chatterley (in press) for further analysis of how conflicts pertaining to representation of the Holocaust have impacted development of the CMHR.

For further historical background on the conflictual Jewish–Ukrainian relations vis-à-vis recognition and commemoration of suffering in WWII and the Holocaust, see also Rudling (2011).

For more information about the ideological divide between Canada's two main Ukrainian organizations—the UCCLA and the UCC—see Chatterley (in press), Ball and Rudling (in press), and Hankivsky and Dhamoon (2013).

For a detailed overview of these conflicts, see Moses (2012, 2014) and Hankivsky and Dhamoon (2013).

The complete CMHR mission statement: “The purpose of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is to explore the subject of human rights, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, in order to enhance the public's understanding of human rights, to promote respect for others and to encourage reflection and dialogue” (CMHR 2012a).

The Shoal Lake 40 Press Release that first included this emblem is available through the community's official webpage (Shoal Lake 40 2014c) This emblem is now also used on the MCHRV's website and Facebook page (which was also launched five days prior to the opening of the CMHR).

The dissemination of information by Shoal Lake 40 on virtual platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (#shoallake40) and a designated YouTube page extend the activism of the MCHRV into digital space as well, the subject of the following and final section. The Shoal Lake 40 YouTube station is available at the following link and includes a series of videos documenting water violations in the community (Redsky Family's Videos 2011).

The CMHR has its own YouTube channel, which includes mostly (bilingual) broadcasts of its annual public meetings, advertisements for the museum (titled “Change is in your Hands”), and short interview clips on topics ranging from “what should be in a human rights museum?” to “persecution in Bosnia” and “homophobia in USA.” All videos are available with closed captions and descriptive audio (CMHR 2014c).

The poster can be viewed on the Facebook event page (“Winnipeg Rally” 2014).

Some examples include: Jessica Botelho-Urbanski (2014), Ashley Carter (2014), and “Tempers Flare” (2014).