Fault lines of participation
An ethnography translated into an exhibition on family and kinship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5008358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathrina Dankl (0000-0002-5481-5614, corresponding author), Tena Mimica, Lukasz Nieradzik, Karin Schneider (0000-0002-4523-7656), Elisabeth Timm |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 82-99 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-8360 • E-ISSN: 1479-8360 |
| Publisher | University of Leicester (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.29311/mas.v11i1.224 |
| OpenAlex | W2735599524 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Since the 'new museology' (Vergo 1989), curating exhibitions has become a contested task. Participatory methods in education and curating have been used and debated as one of the tools to bring museums and visitors into contact in a new way. On the basis of an exhibition on family and kinship, based on praxeologic approaches in curating as well as in displaying the content, this article discusses critically the limits of such methods: they show up not simply in the museum in the form of a changeable ideology, but rather implicitly in all actions that unfold with the concrete use of an exhibition. Against the assumption of improving exhibiting with participatory methods, we think the ideal of participation to be in the same way marked with fault lines as traditional 'politics of display' (MacDonald 1989
Art history · Ethnography · Exhibition · Genealogy · Kinship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |