Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements

ISBN-13: 9781138802261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str.

Laurajane Smith;Geoff Cubitt;Kalliopi Fouseki

Opis

This text assesses the impact of the 2007 bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. It also identifies practical issues that public historians, museum practitioners, and policy makers can draw upon in developing responses to the increasing recognition of Britain's history of African enslavement.

Recenzje

‘This book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the ways in which museums can either empower or disempower their communities from dealing with the legacy of the past in the present, and thus contribute to current efforts of making communities.’ - Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, Australia

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Anxiety and Ambiguity in The Representation of Dissonant History. Geoff Cubitt, Laurajane Smith, Ross Wilson  Part I: Organizing the Bicentenary: Politics and Policy  2. The Burden of Knowing Versus the Privilege of Unknowing. Emma Waterton  3. High Anxiety – 2007 and Institutional Neuroses. Roshi Naidoo  4. Restoring the Pan African Perspective: Reversing the Institutionalization of Maafa Denial. Toyin Agbetu  5. Slavery and the (Symbolic) Politics of Memory in Jamaica: Rethinking the Bicentenary. Wayne Modest  Part II: Representing the Bicentenary: Communities, Consultants and Curators  6. The Role of Museums as ‘Places of Social Justice’: Community Consultation and the 1807 Bicentenary. Laurajane Smith and Kalliopi Fouseki  7. Science and Slavery, 2007 – Public Consultation. Tracy-Ann Smith  8. The Curatorial Complex: Marking the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Ross Wilson  Part III: Marking the Bicentenary: Exhibitions, Art and Personal Reflections  9. Making the London Sugar and Slavery Gallery at Museum of London Docklands. David Spence  10. Terra Nova for the Royal Geographical Society: 2007 and the Bombay African Strand Of the ‘Crossing Continents: Connecting Communities’ Project. Cliff Pereira and Vandana Patel  11. Exhibiting Difference: A Curatorial Journey with George Alexander Gratton the ‘Spotted Negro Boy’. Temi-Tope Odumosu  12. Art, Resistance and Remembrance: A Bicentenary at the British Museum. Christopher Spring  13. Maybe There Was Something to Celebrate. Raimi Gbadamosi  Part IV: Encountering the Bicentenary: Trauma and Engagement  14. Atrocity Materials and the Representation of Transatlantic Slavery: Problems, Strategies and Reactions. Geoff Cubitt  15. Affect and Registers of Engagement: Navigating Emotional Responses to Dissonant Heritages. Laurajane Smith  16. Commemorating Civil Rights and Reform Movements at the National Museum of American History. Kylie Message

O autorze

Laurajane Smith is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University, Canberra. She is author of Uses of Heritage (2006) and Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage (2004), co-author of Heritage, Communities and Archaeology (2009) and co-editor of Intangible Heritage (2009). She is editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Geoff Cubitt is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department and in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. He is the author of the books, The Jesuit Myth (1993) and History and Memory (2007), and editor of two others, Imagining Nations (1998) and Heroic Reputations and Exemplary Lives (2000).

Kalliopi Fouseki is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the 1807 Commemorated project in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York.

Ross Wilson is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the 1807 Commemorated project in the Department of History at the University of York.