Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography

book: Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage

A Berlin Ethnography

Edited by: Sharon Macdonald
Funded by: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung , Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz , Center for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage , Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Volume 1 in the series Cultural Heritage Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839464090

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About this book

The museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and heritage in Berlin provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. Exploring new initiatives and approaches, the book shows how these work - or do not - in practice. By doing so, it highlights ways forward - for research and action - for the future. The fieldwork locations on which this book is based include the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as Berlin streets and protests.

Author / Editor information

Sharon Macdonald is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of social anthropology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she directs both the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik and CARMAH (the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
List of Images Open Access Download PDF	9
Doing Diversity, Making Differences. Multi-Researcher Ethnography in Museums and Heritage in Berlin Sharon Macdonald Open Access Download PDF	13
Talking and Going about Things Differently. On Changing Vocabularies and Practices in the Postcolonial Provenance and Restitution Debates Larissa Förster Open Access Download PDF	57
Being Affected. Shifting Positions at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin Margareta von Oswald Open Access Download PDF	77
Beyond Compare. Juxtaposition, Enunciation and African Art in Berlin Museums Nnenna Onuoha Open Access Download PDF	97
Polarised Public Perceptions of German Colonialism. Visitor Comments at the DHM German Colonialism Exhibition Harriet Merrow Open Access Download PDF	117
Changing Street Names. Decolonisation and Toponymic Reinscription for Doing Diversity in Berlin Duane Jethro Open Access Download PDF	137
Dis-Othering Diversity. Troubling differences in a Berlin-Brussels Afropolitan curatorial collaboration Jonas Tinius Open Access Download PDF	157
Diversity Max*. Multiple Differences in Exhibition-Making in Berlin Global in the Humboldt Forum Sharon Macdonald Open Access Download PDF	173
Diversifying the Collections at the Museum of European Cultures Magdalena Buchczyk Open Access Download PDF	193
Collecting Diversity. Data and Citizen Science at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Chiara Garbellotto and Tahani Nadim Open Access Download PDF	211
Exploring the Futurabilities of Museums. Making differences with the Museum Divan at the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin Christine Gerbich Open Access Download PDF	229
Willkommen im Museum. Making and Unmaking Refugees in the Multaka Project Rikke Gram Open Access Download PDF	247
i,Slam. Belonging and Difference on Stage in Berlin Katarzyna Puzon Open Access Download PDF	261
Transnational Entanglements of Queer Solidarity. Berlin Walks with Istanbul Pride March Nazlı Cabadağ Open Access Download PDF	277
Difficult Heritage and Digital Media. ‘Selfie culture’ and Emotional Practices at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Christoph Bareither Open Access Download PDF	293
Making Differences to Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage. An Afterword Sharon Macdonald Open Access Download PDF	315
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	319

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 324
Keywords: Museums; Heritage; Anthropology; Ethnography; Memory Culture; Cultural Management; Museum; Museum Management; Postcolonialism

eBook

Published: December 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839464090