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Museums and migration : history, memory and politics / edited by Laurence Gourievidis.

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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 l...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Gouriévidis, Laurence
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Museum meanings.
Subjects:
Immigrants > History > Museums.
Emigration and immigration > History > Museums.
Museums > Social aspects.
Museum exhibits.
Emigration and immigration > Museums.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Representing migration in museums : history, diversity and the politics of memory / Laurence Gouriévidis
  • Who is the city museum in a transcultural Europe? / Francesca Lanz
  • Returning to racism : new challenges for museums and citizenship / Kylie Message
  • Whose cake is it anyway? : museums, civil society and the changing reality of public engagement / Bernadette Lynch
  • Immigration: politics, rhetoric and participatory practices in Italian museums / Anna Chiara Cimoli
  • World in the East End at the V & A Museum of Childhood / Eithne Nightingale
  • The museum in a multicultural setting : the case of Malmö museums / Christina Johansson
  • The Ulster American Folk Park and heritage diversity in Northern Ireland / Karine Bigand
  • A museum of our own / Susan Ashley
  • Identification, hybridisation and authentication : representing the heritage of migrants in four cultural institutions of Sucre, Bolivia / Tamara Glas
  • The migrant and the museum : place and representation in Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke
  • The recognition of migrations in the construction of Catalan national identity? : representations of the history of migrations and cultural diversity in Catalan museums (1980-2012) / Fabien Van Geert
  • Migration history and nation-building: the role of museums and memorials in post-devolution Wales / Marco Giudici
  • Migration exhibitions and the question of identity : reflections on the history of the representation of migration in Australian museums 1986-2011 / Mary Hutchison and Andrea Witcomb
  • Heritage and the reframing of Japan's national narrative of Hokkaido: negotiating identity in migration history / Julie Higashi.

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