ISBN:
978-0-415-83875-7
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 263 S.
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Ill.
Series Statement:
Museum Meanings
DDC:
304.8074
Keywords:
Museum Migration
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Geschichte
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Politik
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Ausstellung
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Sozialer Aspekt
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Recent decades have seen migration history and issues increasingly featured in museums. Museums and Migration explores the ways in which museum spaces - local, regional, national - have engaged with the history of migration, including internal migration, emigration and immigration. It presents the latest innovative research from academics and museum practitioners and offers a comparative perspective on a global scale bringing to light geo- and socio-political specificities. It includes an extensive range of international contributions from Europe, Asia, South America as well as settler societies such as Canada and Australia.Museums and Migration charts and enlarges the developing body of research which concentrates on the analysis of the representation of migration in relation to the changing character of museums within society, examining their civic role and their function as key public arenas within civil society. It also aims to inform debates focusing on the way museums interact with processes of political and societal changes, and examining their agency and relationship to identity construction, community involvement, policy positions and discourses, but also ethics and moralities.Recent decades have seen migration history and issues increasingly featured in museums. Museums and Migration explores the ways in which museum spaces - local, regional, national - have engaged with the history of migration, including internal migration, emigration and immigration. It presents the latest innovative research from academics and museum practitioners and offers a comparative perspective on a global scale bringing to light geo- and socio-political specificities. It includes an extensive range of international contributions from Europe, Asia, South America as well as settler societies such as Canada and Australia. Museums and Migration charts and enlarges the developing body of research which concentrates on the analysis of the representation of migration in relation to the changing character of museums within society, examining their civic role and their function as key public arenas within civil society. It also aims to inform debates focusing on the way museums interact with processes of political and societal changes, and examining their agency and relationship to identity construction, community involvement, policy positions and discourses, but also ethics and moralities.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Representing migration in museums: history, diversity and the politics of memory; PART 1 Museums and migration history: issues and challenges; 2 City museums in a transcultural Europe; 3 Returning to racism: new challenges for museums and citizenship; 4 'Whose cake is it anyway?': museums, civil society and the changing reality of public engagement; PART 2 Engaging with cultural diversity: migration in museums5 Immigration: politics, rhetoric and participatory practices in Italian museums6 World in the East End at the V&A Museum of Childhood; 7 The museum in a multicultural setting: the case of Malmö Museums; 8 The Ulster American Folk Park and heritage diversity in Northern Ireland; 9 A museum of our own; 10 Identification, hybridization and authentication: representing the heritage of migrants in four cultural institutions of Sucre, Bolivia; PART 3 Migration history and national narratives in museums; 11 The migrant and the museum: place and representation in Ireland12 The recognition of migrations in the construction of Catalan national identity: representations of the history of migrations and cultural diversity in Catalan museums, 1980-201013 Migration history and nation-building: the role of museums and memorials in post-devolution Wales; 14 Migration exhibitions and the question of identity: reflections on the history of the representation of migration in Australian museums, 1986-2011; 15 Heritage and the reframing of Japan's national narrative of Hokkaido: negotiating identity in migration history; Index
