Introduction. Remembering places of pain and shame / William Logan and Keir Reeves
Pt. I. Massacre and genocide sites
1. Let the dead be remembered : interpretation of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial / Qian Fengqi
2. Hiroshima 'Peace Memorial': transforming legacy, memories and landscapes / Yushi Utaka
3. Auschwirz-Birkenau: the challenges of heritage management following the Cold War / Katie Young
4. 'Dig a hole and bury the past in it': reconciliation and the heritage of genocide in Cambodia / Colin Long and Keir Reeves
5. "The Myall Creek Memorial: history, identity and reconciliation / Bronwyn Batten
Pt. II. Wartime internment sites
6. Cowra Japanese War Cemetery / Ai Kobayashi and Bart Ziino
7. cave in Taiwan: comfort women's memories and the local identity / Chou Ching-Yuan
8. Post colonial shame: heritage and the forgotten pain of civilian women internees in Java / Joost Cote
9. Difficult memories: the independence struggle as cultural heritage in East Timor / Michael Leach
Pt. III. Civil and political prisons
10. Port Arthur, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia: convict prison islands in the Antipodes / Jane Lennon
11. Hoa Lo Museum, Hanoi: changing attitudes to a Vietnamese place of pain and shame / William Logan
12. Places of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South Africa: black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships / Angel David Nieve S.
13. Negotiating places of pain in post-conflict Northern Ireland: debating the future of the Maze prison/Long Kesh / Sara McDowell
Pt. IV. Places of benevolent internment
14. Beauty springing from the breast of pain / Spencer Leine Weber
15. 'No less than a palace': Kew Asylum, its planned surrounds, and its present-day residents / Keir Reeves and David Nichols
16. Between the hostel and the detention centre: possible trajectories of migrant pain and shame in Australia / Sara Wills.