The postcolonial museum : the arts of memory and the pressures of history

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The postcolonial museum : the arts of memory and the pressures of history

Title remainder

the arts of memory and the pressures of history

Statement of responsibility

edited by Iain Chambers, Alessandra De Angelis, Celeste Ianniciello, Mariangela Orabona and Michaela Quadraro

Contributor

• Quadraro, Michaela
• Chambers, Iain,
• Chambers, Iain,
• De Angelis, Alessandra,
• De Angelis, Alessandra,
• Ianniciello, Celeste,
• Ianniciello, Celeste,
• Orabona, Mariangela,
• Orabona, Mariangela,
• Quadraro, Michaela

Editor

• De Angelis, Alessandra,
• Ianniciello, Celeste,
• Orabona, Mariangela,
• Orabona, Mariangela,
• Chambers, Iain,
• Chambers, Iain,
• De Angelis, Alessandra,
• Ianniciello, Celeste,

Subject

• Collective memory -- Social aspects
• Museums -- Semiotics
• Museums -- Semiotics
• Museum techniques
• Museums -- Semiotics
• Museum techniques
• Museum techniques
• Museums -- Social aspects
• Museums -- Social aspects
• Collective memory -- Social aspects
• Museums -- Social aspects
• Museums and community
• Museums and community
• Museums and community
• Postcolonialism
• Postcolonialism -- Social aspects
• Postcolonialism -- Social aspects
• Postcolonialism -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

This book examines how we can conceive of a "postcolonial museum" in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures. Focusing on the transformation of museums as cultural spaces, rather than physical places, is to propose a living archive formed through creation, participation, production and innovation. The aim is to propose a critical assessment of the museum in the light of those transcultural and global migratory movements that challenge the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. This involves a search for new strategies and critical approaches in the fields of museum and heritage studies which will renew and extend understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable re-evaluation of the concept of "modernity" in a so-called globalised and multicultural world

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UKMGB

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography