Museums and Migration: History, Memory and Politics - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415838754 ISBN 13: 9780415838757

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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"Ultimately, Museums and Migration provides an extensive and diverse set of examples that showcase the ways in which museums have led or responded to calls for increased visibility and participation of migrant and indigenous communities in artistic and educational spaces. The authors engage with the theoretical material laid out in Gourievidis's introduction and in the first part of the book, and apply their findings to current and historical case studies. In drawing these connections between theory and practice, the authors successfully interrogate the role of the museum in national identity formation, and help to lead the next phase of museum studies that recognizes and supports migrant contributions to community-building across the globe." - Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, Journal of Curatorial Studies

Contenuti:

Introduction  Part 1: Museums and migration history: issues and challenges  1. Museums as agent of social inclusion: their possible active role in creating new citizenship  2. Desperately seeking history: the tension between history and culture in Australian migration exhibitions 1986-2011  3. ‘Whose cake is it anyway?’: museums, civil society and the changing reality of public engagement  4. Moral Exclusion and the Jewish Migration from World War II  Part 2: Migration history and national narratives  5. Migration history and nation building: the representation of Italian immigration in post-devolution Wales  6. The engagement of Catalan museums with multiculturalism as an ‘unofficial’ part of Catalan nationalistic policies  7. The Ainu cultural renaissance: the contested space-time continuum of Hokkaido and national narrative  8. The representation of the cultural heritage of migrants from the campo in the city of Sucre, Bolivia  9. From private venture to National Museum: the trail of the Ulster American Folk Park  Part 3: Museums, migration history and cultural diversity in Europe  10. It is time to talk about immigration: politics, rhetorics and participation practices in Italian museums  11. The representation of recent migration into Ireland in museums  12. Swedish museums, migration and cultural diversity? Contacts and conflicts in the production of exhibitions and events  13. Inside - Outside. Immigration on display at the museum of Copenhagen  Part 4: Museums, migration history and multiculturalism in settler societies  14. A museum of our own  15. ‘Finding’ Pay-a-pot’s moccasins at the Maple Creek Museum: disrupting settler narratives through rereading museum spaces  16. Title to be defined  17. From ‘white’settler stories to a multicultural paradigm - the influence of changing policies on the representation of immigration in regional and national museums in New Zealand  18. Transnational subjects, national narratives: the National Museum of American History’s Bracero History Project  19. ‘A genuine history of the masses’? Embodying the Irish immigrant at the museum

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415838754
• ISBN 13: 9780415838757
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Redattore: Gourievidis Laurence