"Jerusalem in Dialogue": Personal Contributions versus Institutional Determinants in a Tandem Tour Guide Project

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2022.0012

Andy Simanowitz

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Abstract:From December 2017 to May 2019, the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) put on a major temporary exhibition dedicated to the history, religious significance, politics, and contemporary daily life of the highly contested city of Jerusalem. The range of programs available to book included a tandem guided tour called "Jerusalem in Dialogue." On each tour, two guides with their own personal relationship with Jerusalem spoke from different perspectives about the city and the exhibition. This format was born out of a training program for museum guides that the museum developed in collaboration with the German-Palestinian Mohamed Ibrahim and the Israeli Shemi Shabat and with accreditation from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW). In this paper, I discuss the institutional determinants involved in the production of the tour and their impact on the narration provided by the guides. I aim to explore the relationship between the intended personal contributions to a public space made by the guides invited to participate and the determining structures that de-personalized their contributions. From this, I go on to draw conclusions about the suitability of the tour format in general, and the tandem tour format in particular, for achieving objectives of participation in a museum setting.

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“对话中的耶路撒冷”：双人导游项目中的个人贡献与制度决定因素

摘要：2017年12月至2019年5月，柏林犹太博物馆（JMB）举办了一场大型临时展览，专门展示备受争议的耶路撒冷市的历史、宗教意义、政治和当代日常生活。可预订的一系列节目包括一项名为“对话中的耶路撒冷”的双人导游之旅。每次旅行中，两名与耶路撒冷有私人关系的导游从不同的角度谈论这座城市和展览。这种形式源于博物馆与德裔巴勒斯坦人Mohamed Ibrahim和以色列Shemi Shabat合作开发的博物馆导游培训计划，并获得了柏林技术学院（HTW）的认证。在本文中，我讨论了旅游制作中的制度决定因素，以及它们对导游提供的叙述的影响。我的目的是探索受邀参与的导游对公共空间的个人贡献与决定他们贡献个性化的结构之间的关系。由此，我得出结论，即一般的参观形式，特别是双人参观形式，对于实现博物馆环境中的参与目标是否合适。

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.

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