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Museums and Migration: History, Memory and Politics

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
279
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


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.

✦ 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 β€˜Whose cake is it anyway?’: museums, civil society and the changing reality of public engagement
PART 2 Engaging with cultural diversity: migration in museums
5 Immigration: politics, rhetoric and participatory practices in Italian museums
6 World in the East End at the V&A Museum of Childhood
7 The museum in a multicultural setting: the case of MalmΓΆ 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 Ireland
12 The recognition of migrations in the construction of Catalan national identity: representations of the history of migrations and cultural diversity in Catalan museums, 1980–2010
13 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
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