Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State: Case Studies from a Global Context

Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State

Case Studies from a Global Context

Edited by: Susanne Leeb and Nina Samuel

Volume 52 in the series Edition Museum

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455142

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While the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But is this really the case? With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe, the contributors investigate which roles the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. They answer the question to which degree the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and its amount of power to shape contemporary narratives. The volume thus examines the contradictions at play when the necessary claim for transculturality meets the institutions of the nation-state.

With contributions by Stanislas Spero Adotevi, Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Natasha Ginwala, Monica Hanna, Rajkamal Kahlon, Suzana Milevska, Mirjam Shatanawi, Kavita Singh, Ruth Stamm, Andrea Witcomb.

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Susanne Leeb works as a professor of contemporary art at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. She is the cofounder (together with Beate Söntgen) of the program PriMus - Promovieren im Museum (PhD in Museums research program). Additionally, she is the cofounder of the book series »Polypen« at b_books, Berlin. Her research focusses on post-, anti-, and decolonial art histories, with a focus on contemporary art.
Nina Samuel works as a postdoctoral researcher at the »Matters of Activity: Image Space Material« Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. An art historian and curator, she has been the program director of PriMus Promovieren im Museum. Her doctorate was sponsored by a scholarship from eikones - Center for the Theory and History of Images at the University of Basel, and she has held various research positions, including at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. Her research interests are image theory and the history of science, knowledge practices, contemporary curatorial strategies, and a material epistemology of the museum.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State Some Remarks on Their Entanglement Susanne Leeb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction: Museum Narratives between Transculturality and the Nation-State From the Origins of this Book to a Short Survey of Its Contents Nina Samuel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
‘Come On Home’ Insistent Presences and Diasporic Selves Natasha Ginwala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Museums in Contemporary Educational and Cultural Systems [1971] Stanislas Spero Adotevi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Remembering and Forgetting in the National Museums of South Asia Kavita Singh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Repatriating Cultural Identity The Egyptian Discontinuity Pretext Monica Hanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Die Völker der Erde (People of the Earth) With an Introduction by Ruth Stamm Rajkamal Kahlon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737) at the Rijksmuseum Mirjam Shatanawi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Shameful Objects, Apologizing Subjects The False Memory Syndrome and Ultranationalism in the Politics of Representation in Macedonia Suzana Milevska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Towards a Cosmopolitical Exhibition Practice An Analysis of Place-Based Exhibitions Seeking to Engage with Cross-Cultural Encounters in Australian Museums Andrea Witcomb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala Performing the Nation for Two Hundred Years Sebastián Eduardo Dávila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Colonialism; Museums; Nation State; Transculturality; Memory Culture; Society; Cultural History; Museology; Museum Management; Museum

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Published: March 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839455142