The Europeanization of national museums: Europoeic media and situated knowledges
- This essay discusses the current Europeanization of national museums in different European countries and considers it against the background of media theories and feminist epistemologies. Taking the example of the European Solidarity Centre Gdansk, the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin and the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée Marseille, it suggests two approaches to the dynamics of travel and locatedness in the museum. Firstly, using the concept of what I call “Europoeic media” this essay shows how “Europe” as a travelling memory is shaped by and in media. Secondly, I argue that the locatedness both of memories and the memory researcher are not detrimental but instead produce “situated knowledges”. Thus, in combining media-sensitivity and standpoint-reflexivity, the paper proposes new ways of taking into account the travels and locatedness of both memories and memory research.
| Author: | Sarah Czerney |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-531922 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2019.1686808 |
| ISSN: | 2000-4214 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of aesthetics & culture |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
| Place of publication: | London |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/01/06 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/01/06 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/04/10 |
| Tag: | Europe; Europoeic media; feminist epistemology; memory; museum |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | art. 1686808 |
| Page Number: | 8 |
| First Page: | 31 |
| Last Page: | 38 |
| Note: | This work was supported by the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main [-]. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 464882540 |
| Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 06 Verbände, Organisationen, Museen / 060 Allgemeine Organisationen, Museumswissenschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
