Unsettling national narratives and multiplying voices
The art museum as renewed space for social advocacy and decolonization - a Canadian case study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5718366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anderson (0000-0003-4106-9752), Stephanie Anderson (0000-0002-6305-6592, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 488-531 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Management and Curatorship (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-7775 • E-ISSN: 1872-9185 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09647775.2020.1803111 |
| OpenAlex | W3100572858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Through their collection and exhibition practices, art museums around the world are active agents in the processes of national memory-making that silence and racialize certain individual and group identities As museums reopen in the wake of Covid19 closures and amid the global protests for social justice and racial equality, there is renewed urgency for institutions to do more than stage dominant narratives of nationhood, identity, and citizenship under the guise of detached commemorative hosts. Using visual art from the National Gallery of Canada’s permanent collection as a case study, this article applies an analytic framework to situate and explore dominant and conflicting constructions of national identity, communicated in a national museum. In doing so, it suggests that national narrative frameworks have much to offer critical approaches in the art museum that support renewed calls from scholars and activists, to upend hierarchies, multiply voices, and become bold new spaces for social advocacy and decolonization
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Decolonization · Exhibition · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · National identity · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · Visual arts · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Gender Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage
Feminist History in Canada
Challenging Racism in the Arts
Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Youth
Troubling National Discourses in Anti-Racist Curricular Planning
Museum Activism
The Invention Of Tradition
A History for the Future
Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada
A Pedagogy of Witnessing
Theorizing Historical Consciousness
The Art of Emily Carr
The Universal Survey Museum
The National Dream
Braiding Histories
Imagined communities
Cultural inclusion, exclusion and the formative roles of museums
The construction of national identity and the curation of difficult knowledge at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Indigenous representation in the 'moral museum
On difficult history displayed
A little more courageous
Collective Memory and Narrative Templates
Museums, Decolonization and Indigenous Artists as First Cultural Responders at the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |