Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1375446
S. Hertler
ABSTRACT Commentary on the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins often omits a closing exhibit wherein three scientists speak about the nature of faith and evolutionary science. Two prior reviews of this exhibit criticize an effort to conciliate patrons and avoid controversy, a charge that is, in part, substantiated by an accompanying plaque disclaiming any inherent conflict between “scientific explorations into the material world and a spiritual search for the meaning of human existence.” Written plaques are reinforced by three scientists on continuous loop, two of whom are professed Christians whose views might be faulted for abstracting humans from the animal kingdom, granting to religious metaphysics what has been explained by evolution, and implying a purposeful teleology where none exists. Eschewing these points of criticism, this paper pursues the divide between the exhibit’s conciliation and scientific opinion. Inclusion of two prominent theistic evolutionists implicitly biases public perception, as previous authors charge. Here, criticism might rest, except for decades of evolutionary explanations of human brains and behaviors. With advances in behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and evolutionary biology, there are compelling reasons to understand religion itself to be a product of evolution, as do the majority of life scientists. Unfortunately, this museum video, operating without reference to sociobiological explanation, continues, like Stephen Jay Gould, to parse religion and science into independent magesteria.
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1388624
A. Cole, E. Brooks
ABSTRACT Inclusive and broad research stresses the need for museums to be socially responsible in the representation of the various communities it represents. This article examines the curator’s representation of source communities presented in two exhibitions in the First Australians Galleries at the National Museum of Australia – investigated through the concepts of multi-voicedness, semiotic landscape, and agency. The qualitative methodologies applied include semi-structured interviews with curators, and image- and document-based analyses. Findings revealed that the exhibition’s semiotic landscape was strongly framed by the collaboration of voices between museum curators and Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander communities. The curators emphasized the moral value of their work in consulting with Indigenous communities; this suggests that the curators have positioned themselves as change agents, which empowers the source communities as well as strengthens the museum’s standing within those communities. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
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Pub Date : 2017-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1367218
A. Ware
ABSTRACT On 12 June 2016, Orlando’s Pulse nightclub became the site of the largest single-shooter massacre in US history: 49 clubgoers lost their lives while celebrating Latin Night at a club popular with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community of Central Florida. In the days that followed the curators and collections staff of the Orange County Regional History Center found themselves affected both as community members and as museum professionals. This brief account addresses the complexities of facing a mass tragedy in real time at the human and museological level, describes the process of moving onto an active footing in the collection and preservation of memorial sites, and offers insight into what, unfortunately, has only become a more common challenge in both our communities and in our professional field.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1292105
E. Clay
ABSTRACT Arizona State University graduate students created a museum panel titled Arizona: The Cost of Immigrant Detention to include in the Humanities Action Lab’s (HAL) States of Incarceration traveling exhibition. This article summarizes the panel and its contents, as well as the process of creating the panel and its accompanying online material. It also looks at the author’s personal feelings toward museums and their usefulness as tools for social change. Specifically, the author and his peers hope to use the online platform created by the HAL to shape the debate during the 2018 Arizona Gubernatorial election.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1292103
Hannah Galloway
ABSTRACT A history class at the University of New Orleans did a project with prisoners at Louisiana State Penitentiary to help those incarcerated honor their loved ones who are deceased. Prison guards distributed templates created by teacher Ben Weber, asking for the name, location, and story about the person they wanted to honor. Prisoners wrote in and shared their experience and the class carried out their request, photographed the process, and then mailed the prisoner back a collage with the photos from their request being fulfilled. The project had a positive impact on both the prisoners and the students. The prisoners felt good that they could honor their loved ones with the help of others who care about their situation. The students gained perspective on the struggles incarcerated people face, including being separated from their loved ones.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1292101
S. Lopez
ABSTRACT Buildings and landscapes are crystallizations of dominant societal beliefs and practices. Architecture also shapes peoples’ experiences of places and institutions, and provides a unique source of evidence of historical change. This article describes how students from the School of Architecture and the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin researched the spaces of migrant detention in Texas, which is a critical part of America’s larger story of mass incarceration. Students mapped the physical locations, architectural forms, and building histories of Texas’ detention centers, and worked with migrants who had been detained to create visual stories of their migration journeys and experiences in detention. These methods support the argument that the spaces of immigrant detention – the material forms, geographic locations, institutional structures, and nested experiences – are critical to understanding a disjuncture between detention policy and detention practice. The US government asserts that immigrant detention is civil in nature, yet detention centers owned by private prison corporations and located in unpopulated rural localities with limited public access replicate US prisons, and are experienced by migrants as punitive environments. These methods also contribute to a more robust and expansive public “spatial imagination” regarding the relationship between immigrant detention and the environment, which is necessary to envisioning alternative systems of (and to) immigrant detention.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1292102
E. Nash
ABSTRACT The traveling exhibition States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories explores the past, present, and future of mass incarceration in the United States through the lens of local narratives, events, and historic and/or contemporary sites. Over 500 students from 20 universities worked together to stimulate a national dialog focused on how mass incarceration has shaped the social definitions of citizenship, criminality, confinement, and economy. As each university investigated a local example of one of these themes and its effect on their nearby community, 16 graduate students from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), supported by Indiana Humanities and the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, used a wide variety of research methods to study the history of confinement and mental illness in Indianapolis, Indiana. Through site visits, theoretical studies, interviews with people involved in the criminal justice and mental healthcare systems, archival research, and community partnerships, our research question, asking why prisons have become the nation’s mental healthcare facilities, began to take shape.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1289774
A. Annis
ABSTRACT This essay seeks to explore why inclusion of Indian people is fundamental in the difficult histories and dialogues regarding mass incarceration and to challenge the role of museums in ensuring that Indian people are centrally located in the discussion. I argue that the inherent roots of mass incarceration are historically situated in Indian dispossession and the obtainment of Indian land, and to omit this from any narrative is irresponsible. I employ the use of three stories – a piece of street-art by Native artist Jaque Fragua, the occupation of Alcatraz Island, and the current resistance in the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to the Dakota Access Pipeline – to discuss the inherent ties between sovereignty, land, settler colonialism and how they connect to mass incarceration in the United States.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1292104
Amy Halliday, C. Miller, Julie Peterson
ABSTRACT As the exhibition States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories travels the nation, visitors will explore the roots of mass incarceration in our communities. While mass incarceration has garnered increased media and scholarly attention in recent years, mainstream analyses overlook the role of gender, even as women are the fastest-growing segment of the incarcerated population in the United States. This article argues that women’s incarceration and the gendered aspects of the carceral state need to become more prominent in the national narrative, and that museums and public history institutions, in partnership with local communities, have the potential to lead this effort. Archival research and oral history interviews with community activists on the ground shed light on the gendered aspects of incarceration in the United States while, at the same time, amplifying the voices of community members and activists. Doing so provides a model for how museums and public history professionals can become active participants in promoting social change.
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Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2017.1292106
Mayela Caro, Marissa Friedman
ABSTRACT California has a long history of criminalizing youth of color. Gang injunctions and the policies which structure the “school to prison pipeline” are contemporary expressions of this. As members of the graduate student curatorial team at the University of California Riverside, our contribution to the Humanities Action Lab’s national exhibition States of Incarceration was to chart the genealogy of sites of surveillance and policing of bodies of color, from the Sherman Indian School in Riverside, CA, to the streets of 1940s Los Angeles, to the public schools and diverse urban neighborhoods of the twenty-first century. In Detention: The War on Youth treats the policies, practices, and sites of policing and surveillance of youthful bodies as the building blocks of a carceral state which has as its end goal the social control of particular kinds of racialized bodies. As our nation’s carceral project continues to expand, we, as public historians, are called to respond to the crisis. We must continue to make public the histories of surveillance, policing, and incarcerating black and brown bodies.
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