Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2055961
B. McKenzie
ABSTRACT This is an account of an enquiry by Climate Museum UK (CMUK) into the potential of rewilding museums towards systemic repair. Rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation enabling natural processes to reshape places. To rewild museums bears the implication that museums must rewild themselves if they are to be agents for rewilding of the Earth. This might mean undertaking mission-altering work for community wellbeing, or addressing legacies of biocolonialism. We used this enquiry into rewilding to inform our evolution as a new activist museum, generating a vision to become more distributed. Inspired by the mutual exchanges of mycorrhizal fungi with plants, our members issue spores of regenerative change by carrying out “activations” in their communities across the UK. This piece applies theories about rewilding to museums, illustrating them with some of CMUK’s activations, including The Wild Museum, an experience led by animal curators, and Acts of Tree Kindness.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2116781
H. Murphy, Ya-ling Chang
ABSTRACT Taiwan has emerged from its authoritarian past into a democratic present, bearing the scars of traumatic and violent historic events. As symbols of repressive histories, penal museums in Taiwan stand at the center of questions about how traumatic pasts can be reconciled and justice sought for victims of previous regimes. By close semiotic examination of two museums that served as sites of incarceration during the White Terror period (1949–1987), this study uses multimodal discourse analysis to understand how these places are used to construct narratives about transitional justice. Hardship, control and human rights narratives are used to construct empathy, conducive to the acceptance and deepening of transitional justice efforts in post-authoritarian Taiwan. These museums help to recover the truth of the authoritarian past and place the experience of Taiwanese political prisoners in the larger context of global human rights and transitional justice narratives.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2143757
Adriana Valderrama Lopez
“ Dirty and clean water have the same sound. They follow the same ancient gap between the stones. The ear errs. Neither the eye nor the nose errs: that rotten water smells of death even if it sounds like life. A wrinkled paper and a mountain have reliefs, similar folds; so does the skin. There are wounds on the earth, self-in fl icted wounds or wounds we in fl icted on her. We open graves or exhumated bodies in search of answers, looking for something that explains violence or lies. There is a desire in the open earth, a desire to swallow you, as in the open skin. ‘ A wound that hurts but is not felt ’” (
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2132682
Amy Melia
ABSTRACT Isolation and loneliness have become characteristic of capitalist cities where spaces for sociality, connection, and togetherness are few and far between, supplanted by an abundance of artificial “pseudo-social spaces” mediated by capital. This social fracture at the heart of contemporary urbanism is an urban-spatial extension of sociality’s degradation and economic capture under capitalist production. For many urban Marxist scholars, urbanization is a process now characterized by the commons’ continuous appropriation and annihilation by private interests. Arguably, within this context, “experimental institutionalism” has aimed to reconfigure art institutions into sites for sociality, dialogue, care, and collaboration. Experimental institutionalism is a field of institutional reform, curatorial practice, and debate concerned with the art institution’s transformation into a socially responsible agent. In this paper, I summarize experimental institutionalism’s main dimensions, drawing on key examples from the field to explore the art museum’s capacity to repair the social bonds ruptured by capitalist urbanism.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2097396
Krasimira Butseva
ABSTRACT Shortly after the coup d’état of 1944 in Bulgaria, state-organized repressions began to take place against political opponents and dissidents. They included mass shootings, life imprisonment, incarceration and the establishment of gulag camps whose scale and longevity has been documented only recently. In the aftermath of Eastern European communism, untangling the memory of political violence without a formal process of restorative justice presented new challenges. This paper examines the processes of healing, reparation, processing and the preservation of traumatic memory of survivors and communities occurring within and through self-initiated and unofficial vernacular memorial museums. What possibilities do vernacular memorial sites hold for collective, collaborative and participatory reparative forms? How are traumatic memory and these difficult historical narratives presented, transmitted and preserved through these physical and digital commemorative spaces?
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Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-1
S. Annavarapu
“Naganna’s back is broken” Siraj casually remarks, while wiping the windshield of his shiny black and yellow autorickshaw. Naganna, fifty-seven years of age, is asleep on the side of the street. Lying on two newspapers, he smiles at me, signaling that he needs a couple of minutes before he can join Siraj and me for chai (tea). Naganna’s frail body looks exhausted, and his face is wrinkled with pain. “How did this happen?” I ask Siraj.
{"title":"Bumpy Roads: global aspirations and local interruptions in Hyderabad, India","authors":"S. Annavarapu","doi":"10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"“Naganna’s back is broken” Siraj casually remarks, while wiping the windshield of his shiny black and yellow autorickshaw. Naganna, fifty-seven years of age, is asleep on the side of the street. Lying on two newspapers, he smiles at me, signaling that he needs a couple of minutes before he can join Siraj and me for chai (tea). Naganna’s frail body looks exhausted, and his face is wrinkled with pain. “How did this happen?” I ask Siraj.","PeriodicalId":29738,"journal":{"name":"Museums & Social Issues-A Journal of Reflective Discourse","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88389994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-4
Sarah Nectoux
Since the 1990s, when the successful cultural-led urban renewal of cities like Bilbao and Glasgow held out the promise that peripheral cities, no less than world cities, could capitalise on culture, much urban cultural strategic planning has sought to gain global attention and achieve socio-economic growth. Such planning has produced mixed results in granting citizens access and production to their city. This essay looks at strategies in multicultural urban areas that lie at the margin of global cities, focusing on the City of Parramatta.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-2
U. Eickelkamp
Six decades ago, Germany’s Ruhr region began its slow transition out of coalmining and the coal-powered iron and steel industry. Over the last twenty years a blue economy has developed in their stead pivoting on the lead market ‘resource efficiency’, while the Ruhr Metropolis has gained recognition for the rehabilitation of its heavily polluted environment. This managed transition has seen the rise of eco-industries – sustainable energy production, research and development in universities, environmental technology companies, industrial heritage and nature tourism, as well as consumptive industries seen as eco-adjacent, foremost sports, leisure, arts and culture. These are central to an overarching strategy for the establishment of a sustainable, climate-resilient and future-proof Ruhr region and a globally significant investment site in the heart of Europe.
{"title":"Pebbles on the Beach of the “Great Transformation”: Lesser Memories of Coal in the Ruhr Metropolis","authors":"U. Eickelkamp","doi":"10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-2","url":null,"abstract":"Six decades ago, Germany’s Ruhr region began its slow transition out of coalmining and the coal-powered iron and steel industry. Over the last twenty years a blue economy has developed in their stead pivoting on the lead market ‘resource efficiency’, while the Ruhr Metropolis has gained recognition for the rehabilitation of its heavily polluted environment. This managed transition has seen the rise of eco-industries – sustainable energy production, research and development in universities, environmental technology companies, industrial heritage and nature tourism, as well as consumptive industries seen as eco-adjacent, foremost sports, leisure, arts and culture. These are central to an overarching strategy for the establishment of a sustainable, climate-resilient and future-proof Ruhr region and a globally significant investment site in the heart of Europe.","PeriodicalId":29738,"journal":{"name":"Museums & Social Issues-A Journal of Reflective Discourse","volume":"539 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77488381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-13DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-5-1-3
Mahruba T. Mowtushi
One afternoon in November 1961, a young man with a “[b]ig beard, lots of hair [and] huge black brooding eyes” (Hume 1967, 35), walked into a bar in Kampala carrying copies of an English-language magazine. As the young man pushed through the lunchtime crowd, an Englishman tore a copy, stomped on it, and shouted: “That’s what I think of your magazine!” (Hume 1967, 35).
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{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Judy Koke, John Fraser","doi":"10.4324/9781315421735-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315421735-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29738,"journal":{"name":"Museums & Social Issues-A Journal of Reflective Discourse","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44367583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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