Contesting Memory: Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context
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This Fall 2011 (IX, 4) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, entitled “Contesting Memory: Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context,” includes papers from the conference on “Museums and Migration” organized by the volume co-editors on June 25-26, 2010, at the Maison des Science de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris. The focus here is on questions of representation and social agency of both migrants and migration museum officials, adopting a comparative perspective on the complex and conflictive articulation between how migrants are represented by themselves and by museum institutions. Migrants are not passive but social agents actively involved in their communities and socially vigilant of the way they are treated, perceived and represented by the host society. They produce also their own representations that are often in conflict with Western hegemonic perceptions of their cultures and identities. Their strong presence in global cities and metropolitan societies today confronts the dominant society with issues of racial/ethnic discrimination and historical memory otherwise ignored by hegemonic Western views. Museums dealing with the history of slavery, migration and colonialism emerged as spaces of contestation, the term “migrant” itself being contested by long-established “minority” groups as one of the ways the dominant society still treats them as “foreigners” and “immigrants.”
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Contesting Memory: Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context – Proceedings of the International Conference on “Museums and Migration” held at the Maison des Science de l’Homme (MSH), June 25-26, 2010, Paris
HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Volume IX • Issue 4 • Fall 2011
Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston
Issue Co-Editors:
- Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley
- Yvon Le Bot, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), University of Warwick, UK
- Alexandra Poli, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Description
This Fall 2011 (IX, 4) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, entitled “Contesting Memory: Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context,” includes papers from the conference on “Museums and Migration” organized by the volume co-editors on June 25-26, 2010, at the Maison des Science de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris. The focus here is on questions of representation and social agency of both migrants and migration museum officials, adopting a comparative perspective on the complex and conflictive articulation between how migrants are represented by themselves and by museum institutions. Migrants are not passive but social agents actively involved in their communities and socially vigilant of the way they are treated, perceived and represented by the host society. They produce also their own representations that are often in conflict with Western hegemonic perceptions of their cultures and identities. Their strong presence in global cities and metropolitan societies today confronts the dominant society with issues of racial/ethnic discrimination and historical memory otherwise ignored by hegemonic Western views. Museums dealing with the history of slavery, migration and colonialism emerged as spaces of contestation, the term “migrant” itself being contested by long-established “minority” groups as one of the ways the dominant society still treats them as “foreigners” and “immigrants.” Contributors include: Ramón Grosfoguel (also as journal issue guest editor), Yvon Le Bot (also as journal issue guest editor), Alexandra Poli (also as journal issue guest editor), Andrea Meza Torres, Lia Paula Rodrigues, Cristina Castellano, Estela Rodríguez García, Ilham Boumankhar, Véronique Bragard, Artwell Cain, Stephen Small, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.
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Contents
vii—Editor’s Note: De-Museumizing Migrations Without and Within
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston
1—Museum and Migration: An Introduction
Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley
Yvon Le Bot, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), University of Warwick, UK
Alexandra Poli, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
5—The Museumization of Migration in Paris and Berlin and Debates on Representation
Andrea Meza Torres, Humboldt University, Berlin
23—Danishness, Nordic Amnesia and Immigrant Museums
Lia Paula Rodrigues, Roskilde University, Denmark
35—“African, Chinese and Mexican National Museums†in the United States”: Did You Say “National”?
Cristina Castellano, University of Paris 1, Sorbonne, France
49—The Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Europe: (Re)designing Cultural Heritages through Intercultural Dialogue
Estela Rodríguez García, Centro de Estudios Diálogo Global, Spain
61—Immigrant Communities, Cultural Institutions and Political Space: The Success of the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia
Ilham Boumankhar, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
93—“Indépendance!”: The Belgo-Congolese Dispute in the Tervuren Museum
Véronique Bragard, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
105—Representation of Africa and the African Diaspora in European Museums
Artwell Cain, National Institute of Dutch Slavery Past and Legacy, The Netherlands
117—Slavery, Colonialism and Museums Representations in Great Britain: Old and New Circuits of Migration
Stephen Small, University of California, Berkeley