Not All Museums

Memory, politics, and museum activism on the move

Bibliographic Data

ID5829587
AuthorsOlga Zabalueva (0000-0003-4540-4589, Linköping University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Publication date2023-07-14
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueNot All Museums (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLinköping University Press (PUBLISHER • SE)
DOI10.3384/9789180752947
OpenAlexW4384295850
ISBN9789180752947
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited78

Not All Museums": Memory, politics, and museum activism on the move is a study of the institutional ontology of museums: how it is being changed and which issues and actors are calling for such change.A museum project that started from scratch in the mid-2010s -the Museum of Movements in Malmö, Sweden -is used as a lens to examine how the global processes of (re)imagining the museum are unfolding in the local Swedish context.The research questions addressed in the dissertation consider the use of politics in the process of museum making (and unmaking); framing of "difficult issues" which cultural institutions are dealing with in both the global and the Swedish museum context; and constituting socially relevant and sustainable museum practices based on agonistic memory framework and museum activism.Addressing these research questions, the text moves constantly between analysis of theories and empirical material.Each chapter also discusses existing research in the relevant field, be it museum politics, memory studies or the concept of "difficult issues".The study relies on the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the process of the Museum of Movements' making and unmaking (2018-2020) and brings in theoretical frameworks to connect museology and memory studies in order to explain museum-and memory politics and museums as processes

Political activism · Politics of memory · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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