Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives

ISBN-13: 9780367872939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 522 str.

Amy K. Levin

Opis

Global Mobilities explores the role of museums and archives in the politics of integration and cultural diversity and their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority populations. Global case studies examine conflicts inherent in this work, such as whether assimilation, integration, or another model is ideal. Chapter

Spis treści

1 Introduction. Global Mobilities.

Part I: Frameworks: Theory, Practice, and Policy       
2 Museums, Refugees, and Collaborative Social Transformation.
3 European Museums in an Age of Migrations: Twelve Propositions for Twenty-First Century Museums.  

Part II: Histories of exiles, refugees, and expatriates      
4 Forgotten by History: Refugees, Historians, and Museums in Britain.
5 Exhibiting Fraught Histories of Migrations: Museums in Elmina, Ghana.
6 Migration Histories, the Past, and the Politics of Memory at Robben Island.
7 “A Safeguard Against Oblivion”: Memorializing French Algeria in the Centre de
Documentation des Français d’Algérie.   

Part III: Museums Interpret Emigration and Immigration     
8 Polish History, the Polish Diaspora, and the Emigration Museum in Gdynia.
9 The Polish Museum of America: Shaping Cultural Identity.  
10 Displaying the Diversity of Community History at Hackney Museum.
11 Restoring and Utilizing the Past: The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.
12 Visitors’ Opinions on the Inclusion of Migrants in Museum Exhibitions: Migrant and
Non-Migrant Communities in Greece.  
13 Occupying the Immigration Museum: The Sans Papiers of Paris at the Site of Their
National Representation.
14 Longing and Belonging: The Representation of Immigrant Communities in Canadian
Museums.
15 Settling In: Cross-Cultural Engagement at the Oregon Jewish Museum.

Part V: Archives, Digital Collections, and Libraries.     
16 Expanding the Boundaries of History: The Expatriate Archive Centre.
17 Beyond Museums: Multicultural Material Heritage Archives in Australia.
18 “Photo Seeks Family”: Digitization, Visual Repatriation, and Performative Memory
Work.  
19 Libraries and Museums in Norway: Promoting Integrat

O autorze

Amy K. Levin was Chair of English at Northern Illinois University, USA, where she also directed the Women’s Studies Program and coordinated Museum Studies. She began a new career as an independent scholar in January 2016, researching and teaching on race, class, and gender in museums.