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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Simine, Silke Arnold-de

Titel

Mediating Memory in the Museum: Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research which is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures. By looking at a range of museums in Germany, Britain, France and Belgium, which address a diverse spectrum of topics such as migration, difficult and dark heritage, war, slavery and the GDR, Arnold-de Simine outlines the paradigm shifts in exhibiting practices associated with the transformation of traditional history museums and heritage sites into 'spaces of memory' over the past thirty years. She probes the political and ethical claims of new museums and maps the relevance of key concepts such as 'vicarious trauma', 'secondary witnessing', 'empathic unsettlement', 'prosthetic memory' and 'reflective nostalgia' in the museum landscape. 02 02 Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as the influence of memory discourses on international trends in museum cultures. 19 02 - Provides an overview of museums' responses to major changes in our remembrance culture and emphasises the prominent role of trauma and empathy in memorial museums and their connection to the changing perceptions and discussions concerning nostalgia and the notion of heritage. - Interdisciplinary approach offers a new approach to cultural memory and media studies, opening up new ways of thinking about 'memory museums'. - Case studies investigate a wide range of new museums in Germany, France and Britain. - Comparative approach that identifies transnational tendencies as well as culturally diverse responses to distinct memory communities. 04 02 List of Figures Glossary Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART I: MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEDIUM 1. A New Type of Museum? 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites PART II: THE DEATHS OF OTHERS: REPRESENTING TRAUMA IN WAR MUSEUMS 8. Sites of Trauma 9. Icons of Trauma PART III: SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE 'MOVING' IMAGE: EMPATHY AND PROJECTION IN ISM, LIVERPOOL, AND IWM NORTH, MANCHESTER 10. The Politics of Empathy 11. Testimonial Video Installation 12. Middle Passage Installation 13. The Big Picture in IWM North 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy PART IV: THE PARADOXES OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE SITES 15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street 17. Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace 18. Ostalgie – Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum PART V: UNCANNY OBJECTS, UNCANNY TECHNOLOGIES 19. Phantasmagoria and its Spectres in the Museum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index 13 02 Silke Arnold-de Simine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Previously she taught at the University of Mannheim and the University of Cambridge. She is the editor of M emory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity (2005), co-edtior of 'Museums and the Educational Turn: History, Memory, Inclusivity', a special issue of the Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, and co-organiser of the Cultural Memory Series at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, London. 16 02 Crane(ed.): MUSEUMS AND MEMORY; Stanford University Press, 2000 (Offers a wide variety of very specific case studies, but do not provide a theoretically focused approach or attempt to define the characteristics of the 'memory museums') Dickinson, Blair & Ott (eds.): PLACES OF PUBLIC MEMORY: THE RHETORIC OF MUSEUMS AND MEMORIALS; University of Alabama Press, 2010 (As above) Landsberg: PROSTHETIC MEMORY: THE TRANSFORMATON OF AMERICAN REMEMBRANCE IN THE AGE OF MASS CULTURE; Columbia University Press, 2004 (Landsberg concentrates on the medium of film and her concept of 'prosthetic memory' needs to be critically interrogated) Maleuvre: MUSEUM MEMORIES: HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, ART; Stanford University Press, 1999 (Maleuvre is more concerned with the idea of history as shaped by the institution of the museum and does not really focus on the more recent paradigm shift) Williams: MEMORIAL MUSEUMS: THE GLOBAL RUSH TO COMMEMORATE; Berg, 2007 (Uses the term 'memorial museum' for museums which deal with the commemoration of modern atrocities world-wide and therefore categorises museums according to the events they address. This restricts the term unnecessarily: the genre of the memory museum has diversified into a range of 'sub-genres' which see their role as both preserving and embodying memories, not only in relation to recent events of mass suffering, but to a much wider range of historical periods and events)