Title: Voices of the departed villages
Author: Nechayeva G.G, Lopatin G.I, Leontyeva S.I, Drobushevskiy A.I Ph.D.
Reference: “Belarusian Science”, Minsk 2008
Keywords: museum, traditions, villages, folklore, iconography
Abstract: Artistic culture and tradition of the lost villages (due to the Chernobyl tragedy) are being presented.
Title: Chernobyl’s Sixth Sense: The Symbolism of an Ever-Present Awareness
Author: Sarah D. Phillips
Reference: Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 159–185, December 2004
doi: 10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159
Keywords: Chernobyl, Ukraine, memory, symbol, museum
Abstract: [This article examines the symbolic life of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I argue that Chernobyl symbols serve as a set of resources: they produce memory, and they are the grounds for making a new society. My analyses are based on representations of Chernobyl in academic and popular discourse, literature, and museums. Through discussions of embodiment and collective memory, I argue that Chernobyl has produced a sort of sixth sense or “awareness-plus” among those who share the experience of the disaster.]
URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159/abstract
Title: Overexposure: the Chernobyl photographs of David McMillan
Author: Anne Marie Todkill
Reference: CMAJ May 29, 2001 vol. 164 no. 11 1604-1605
Keywords: photography, memory, Canada, museum
Abstract: Winnipeg photographer David McMillan has visited the Chernobyl evacuation zone six times since 1994, recording the solitary decay of this modern Pompeii in a series of images that now form part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.