Finding a home in Hackney? Reimagining narratives of slavery through a multicultural community museum space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoë Norridge (0000-0003-3698-223X, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167-179 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17528630902981324 |
| OpenAlex | W2094132581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article examines Hackney Museum's exhibition Abolition '07 and asks how the multicultural nature of this London borough affected attempts to memorialise the abolition of the slave trade – a trade which has had a direct impact on so many of the local residents. Analysing the exhibition materials and referring to the creative writing produced by young visitors, Hackney Council encouraged an ‘ethics of empathy’ to enable a collective response to tragedy and horror, pride in the borough's abolitionist history and a shared ownership of the past. Such an approach is not unproblematic. Drawing on the work of historians, identification theorists and postcolonial critics, I suggest that imagining the pain of enslaved people falls within wider discursive frameworks which may encourage voyeuristic reading practices and an appropriative approach to alterity. However, despite significant limitations, I ultimately maintain that Abolition '07's encouragement of identifications across time, space and race is an effective strategy for reinserting the human into these stories of the past
Aesthetics · Art · Borough · Empathy · Exhibition · Literature · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Pride · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Visual arts · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |