Exhibiting Solidarity Work Poehls, Kerstin
Nordic Journal of Migration Research,
12/2020, Letnik:
10, Številka:
4
Journal Article
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Temporary exhibitions are excellent points of departure for looking at the ‘troubling’ effects that refugee realities, migration, and mobility practices have on European museums. Based on an analysis ...of the narrative strategies of four travelling exhibitions Lichtblick, Yallah?!, Flight for life, and The Museum without a home, the focus of this contribution is on representations of migration and solidarity work since the 2015 ‘summer of migration’. The article analyses the displays themselves and the venues, the places, and the spaces that are represented through them, and the ways in which the exhibitions relate to solidarity work. It is the aim of this article to sound these exhibitions’ potential to trouble and also to inspire museums in their work towards representing flight and mobility, as well as refugees and solidarity workers and the manifold ways in which they are part of today’s European realities.
Exhibiting Europe in museums Kaiser, Wolfram; Poehls, Kerstin; Krankenhagen, Stefan
2014., 20140415, 2014, 2014-05-01, Letnik:
6
eBook
Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation ...and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.
More and more museums all over Europe are discovering migration as a topic for exhibitions. These exhibitions on migration question notions of objectivity or of European universalism. This article ...looks at a broad range of recent exhibitions and museums that address the topic of migration. Taking into consideration their varying scope and institutional context, this text argues that exhibitions on migration tell several stories at once: Firstly, they present stories of migration in a certain city, region or nation, and within a particular period of time. For this purpose, curators make extensive use of maps – with the peculiar effect that these maps blur what seems to be the clear-cut entity of reference of the museum itself or the exhibition. To a stronger degree than other phenomena that turn into museal topics, ’migration’ unveils the constructed character of geographic or political entities such as the nation or the European Union. It shows how, hidden below the norm of settledness, mobilities are and have always been omnipresent in and fundamental for European societies. Secondly and related to this, exhibitions on migration add a new chapter to the meta-narrative of museums: implicitly, they challenge the relevance of the nation - specifically, of both the historical idea that initiated the invention of the public museum (cf. e.g. Bennett 1999) and the political fundament of European integration today. They provoke questions of settledness, citizenship, or contemporary globalisation phenomena that are equally implicitly put on display. The consequent effect is a blurring of the concept of the nationstate. Finally, migration as a museal topic conveys a view on how the institution of the ’museum’ relates to such a fuzzy thing as mobility, thus provoking questions for further research.
Europäische Eliten - wer sind sie? Kulturpolitische Ambitionen der Europäischen Union einerseits, gelebter Alltag in EU-Europa andererseits - am Collège d'Europe (Europakolleg) berühren sich diese ...Sphären seit 1948. Studierende bereiten sich hier auf eine Tätigkeit in den EU-Institutionen in Brüssel vor. Die zukünftigen Experten der Europäisierung sind transnational bewandert und machen sich am Europakolleg die kulturellen und sozialen Codes des EU-Machtfelds zu eigen. Wird hier der »Homo Europaeus« geschaffen? Auf der Grundlage von Interviews und mehrmonatiger Feldforschung vor Ort zeichnet dieses Buch ein detailliertes Bild des Internats- und Studienalltags und der Entstehung des spezifischen EU-Habitus.
Europaische Eliten - wer sind sie? Kulturpolitische Ambitionen der Europaischen Union einerseits, gelebter Alltag in EU-Europa andererseits - am College d'Europe (Europakolleg) beruhren sich diese ...Spharen seit 1948. Studierende bereiten sich hier auf eine Tatigkeit in den EU-Institutionen in Brussel vor. Die zukunftigen Experten der Europaisierung sind transnational bewandert und machen sich am Europakolleg die kulturellen und sozialen Codes des EU-Machtfelds zu eigen. Wird hier der Homo Europaeus geschaffen?Auf der Grundlage von Interviews und mehrmonatiger Feldforschung vor Ort zeichnet dieses Buch ein detailliertes Bild des Internats- und Studienalltags und der Entstehung des spezifischen EU-Habitus.
More and more museums all over Europe are discovering migration as a topic for exhibitions. These exhibitions on migration question notions of objectivity or of European universalism. This article ...looks at a broad range of recent exhibitions and museums that address the topic of migration. Taking into consideration their varying scope and institutional context, this text argues that exhibitions on migration tell several stories at once: Firstly, they present stories of migration in a certain city, region or nation, and within a particular period of time. For this purpose, curators make extensive use of maps – with the peculiar effect that these maps blur what seems to be the clear-cut entity of reference of the museum itself or the exhibition. To a stronger degree than other phenomena that turn into museal topics, 'migration' unveils the constructed character of geographic or political entities such as the nation or the European Union. It shows how, hidden below the norm of settledness, mobilities are and have always been omnipresent in and fundamental for European societies. Secondly and related to this, exhibitions on migration add a new chapter to the meta-narrative of museums: implicitly, they challenge the relevance of the nation - specifically, of both the historical idea that initiated the invention of the public museum (cf. e.g. Bennett 1999) and the political fundament of European integration today. They provoke questions of settledness, citizenship, or contemporary globalisation phenomena that are equally implicitly put on display. The consequent effect is a blurring of the concept of the nationstate. Finally, migration as a museal topic conveys a view on how the institution of the ‘museum’ relates to such a fuzzy thing as mobility, thus provoking questions for further research.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Nahrung ist nicht nur ein Politikum ist, sondern auch Medium zum Kommunizieren. Im Mittelpunkt des Lehrforschungsprojekts "Food for ...Thought" standen Artefakte, Akteure, Institutionen und Netzwerke des "Nahrungsgeschehens". Wir untersuchten soziale Praktiken und kulturelle Bedeutungen rund um Ernährung und Lebensmittel mit den Mitteln der Ethnographie, setzten uns mit den Verstrickungen individueller Konsumhandlungen und globaler Prozesse auseinander und wollten auch konfliktreiche gesellschaftliche Veränderungsprozesse besser verstehen.- Food and eating is a highly political issue and, simultaneously, a medium of communication. Within the student research project "Food for Thought", we focused on food artefacts, actors, institutions, and networks of "food events". We investigated social practices and cultural meanings around food and eating through ethnographic research, dealt with the entanglements of individual consumption and global processes and aimed at better understanding about conflictual processes in society that are centered around food.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Governing Europe Poehls, Kerstin; Krankenhagen, Stefan; Kaiser, Wolfram
Exhibiting Europe in Museums,
04/2014, Letnik:
6
Book Chapter
Given another chance to start afresh with integration, he would begin with culture. This remark is often attributed to Jean Monnet, the first president of the ECSC High Authority, whenever the issue ...of culture in the social, economic and political integration of the EU arises (Wistricht 1989: 79). But there is no convincing evidence that Monnet actually said this, and moreover, the idea that a cultural community should form the core of a future European federation runs entirely contrary to Monnet’s functionalist perspective on integration. Monnet’s perspective originated intellectually in interwar Europe (Kaiser and Schot 2014), was theoretically developed after
Narrating Europe Poehls, Kerstin; Krankenhagen, Stefan; Kaiser, Wolfram
Exhibiting Europe in Museums,
04/2014, Letnik:
6
Book Chapter
The use of art in museums can help smooth out the conflict in a difficult history, as the preceding chapter has shown. By placing particular works of art at the entrance toC’est notre histoire!, the ...curators of the Brussels exhibition separated the integration of (Western) Europe since 1945 — the subject of the exhibition — from a prehistory riven by conflict (Tempora 2007). The exhibition catalogue presented the end of the war as a ‘Year Zero’, and integration as a completely fresh start: ‘For the first time in the history of Europe, the culture of war has given way to a
Musealising Europe Poehls, Kerstin; Krankenhagen, Stefan; Kaiser, Wolfram
Exhibiting Europe in Museums,
04/2014, Letnik:
6
Book Chapter
Odo Marquard (2001: 50) has noted that it was ‘shortly after 1750 that the modern concept of progress and the first museums’ were formed. Like Hermann Lübbe (1989), Marquard understands the ...development of the idea of the museum to be a compensatory history. The turn to the old, that is, to the observation of past times, materials and practices, is a form of compensation for the loss of a lifeworld overwhelmed by industrialisation, economisation and the progressive acceleration of life. According to Lübbe (1989: 25), the museum is, ‘to begin with, a means of salvaging cultural remnants from processes of
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