(Re)visualizing national history : museums and national identities in Europe in the new millennium / edited by Robin Ostow

Contributor(s):

Ostow, Robin [ed.]

Series: German and European studiesPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto press, cop. 2008Description: X, 228 p. : ilISBN:

9780802092212

Summary: Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians of national treasure, and to educate citizens and subjects. At the same time, a great deal of attention has been paid to reshaping national histories and values in the wake of the collapse of the Communist bloc and the emergence of the European Union. (Re)Visualizing National History considers the wave of monument and museum building in Europe as part of an attempt to forge consensus in politically unified but deeply divided nations. This collection explores ways in which museum’s exhibit emerging national values and how the establishment of these new museums (and new exhibits in older museums) reflects the search for a consensus among different generational groups in Europe and North America. The contributors come from a variety of countries and academic backgrounds, and speak from such varied perspectives as cultural studies, history, anthropology, sociology, and museum studies. (Re)Visualizing National History is a unique and interdisciplinary volume that offers insights on the dilemmas of present-day European culture, manifestations of nationalism in Europe, and the debates surrounding museums as sites for the representation of politics and history. '(Re) Visualizing National History explores the place of museums and their efforts to represent significant aspects of late twentieth-century projects of national identification. The contributors examine a range of European societies where the relation between visual historical materials and national narratives is troubled, and discuss the influence of external factors such as emigration on national projects. Multi-disciplinary and thematically coherent, this is a significant contribution to Museum and Cultural Studies.' (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC	PM06 Rev 08	1	Available		1900146492

Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Museums and national identities in Europe in the Twenty-First Century / Robin Ostow -- I. The Twenty-First Century: new exhibits and new partnerships : 1. Exhibition as film / Mieke Bal -- II. Reconfiguring national history: centralized and local strategies : 2. The terror of the house / István Rév -- 3. Putting constested history on display: the uses of the past in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- III. Restoring national history with international participation : 4. Museums, multiculturalism, and the remaking of postwar Sarajevo / Edin Hajdarpasic -- 5. Building a Jewish museum in Germany in the Twenty-First Century / Bernhard Purin -- 6. Remusealizing Jewish history in Warsaw: the privatization and externalization of nation building / Robin Ostow -- IV. Displaying war, genocide, and the nation: from Ottawa to Berlin, 2005 : 7. Constructing the Canadian war museum - Constructing the Landscape of a Canadian identity / Reesa Greenberg -- 8. Peter Eisenman's design for Berlin's memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe: a Juror's report in three parts / James E. Young -- Contributors -- Index

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