Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum

Kelly, Casey Ryan; Hoerl, Kristen

doi:10.1080/00028533.2012.11821759

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“…see, for example, Ashton (2012), Blair, Dickinson and Ott (2010), Denton (2005), Flath (2002, Gans (2002), Kelly and Hoerl (2012), King (2006), Noy (2008), Vivian (2010) and Zagacki and Gallagher (2009). folk tradition and modernity as progress in Chinese museums can help elucidate how 'modernity' is constructed and deployed in the service of national identity and political power (Kolås 2003: 18). Perhaps few other 'place-identities' than Tibet -with its lush symbolic imaginary juxtaposing portrayals of mystical 'Shangri La' with feudal corruption and impoverishment -reveal the complicated interrelations among history, geography, tradition, culture, ideology, modernity, display values and accompanying aesthetics.…”

Section: Displaying Tibet: Museums Otherness Nationalism and Heritagementioning

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Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

Keränen¹,

Dodge²,

Conley³

2015

Journal of Curatorial Studies

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This article investigates the representational interplay between tradition and modernity in three museums aboutTibet: the Tibet Museum in Lhasa, China; the Qinghai Tibetan Culture Museum in Xining, China; and the Tibet Museum in Dharamsala, India. Analyzing how each museum displays Tibetan heritage, three modalities of representing Tibetan culture and Tibet's disputed 'liberation' are identifiedtriumphant modernization, spectacular sacralization, and catastrophic witnessing. Each modality reproduces, counters and complicates dominant Chinese narratives concerning Tibet's history, culture and political status. Also discussed are the implications of these practices for displaying contested cultural narratives in contemporary China. Relations between the People's Republic of China's Han majority andChina's 56 officially recognized cultural minorities -who together comprise less than nine per cent of China's total population (CIA 2014) -raise significant questions about the aesthetics and politics of cultural representation and display. Take, for instance, the case of Tibetan political and cultural sovereignty -one of the lightning rod 'three Ts' that,

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Section: Displaying Tibet: Museums Otherness Nationalism and Heritagementioning

confidence: 97%

Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

Keränen¹,

Dodge²,

Conley³

2015

Journal of Curatorial Studies

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“…Participatory rhetorical approaches have embraced Denzin and Lincoln's (2011) notion of the bricoleur, who patches together multiple perspectives and methodologies into the analysis of cultural phenomena. This means that participatory rhetorical researchers have taken up a variety of topics and theories, including environmental (justice) crises (E. Dickinson, 2011;Druschke, 2013;Endres, 2009;Endres, Sprain, & Peterson, 2009;Herndl et al, 2011;Pezzullo, 2001Pezzullo, , 2007Senda-Cook, 2012Senda-Cook & Endres, 2013), vernacular discourses and everyday rhetoric (Ackerman, 2003;Cintron, 1998;Clair, 2011;Hauser, 1999Hauser, , 2011Hess, 2011;Pezzullo & Depoe, 2010), media production and consumption (Dunn, 2012;Herbig & Hess, 2012), memory and museum rhetorics (Aoki, Dickinson, & Ott, 2010;Armada, 2010;Blair, 2001;Blair & Michel, 2000;Chevrette & Hess, 2015;Choi, 2008;Clark, 2010;Hess & Herbig, 2013;Kelly & Hoerl, 2012;Owen & Ehrenhaus, 2014;Smith & Bergman, 2010;Taylor, 2010), theories of place/space (Aiello, 2011;Aiello & Dickinson, 2014;Edbauer, 2005;Ewalt, 2011;Fleming, 2009;…”

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This special issue examines intersections between qualitative and rhetorical inquiry through (re)introducing rhetorical fieldwork. We define rhetorical fieldwork as a set of approaches that integrate rhetorical and qualitative inquiry toward the examination of in situ practices and performances in a rhetorical field. This set of approaches falls within the participatory turn in rhetorical studies, in which rhetorical scholars increasingly turn to fieldwork, interviews, and other forms of participatory research to augment conventional methodological practices. The special issue highlights four original articles that employ, exemplify, and reflect on the value of rhetorical fieldwork as a form of critical/cultural inquiry. In this introduction, we not only introduce the key themes and articles in the special issue but also compile our take on the state of the art of rhetorical fieldwork in an effort to introduce this form of research practice to those who have not encountered it before.

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“…Although the trial verdict against Scopes led to a short-term uptick in antievolution laws, the Scopes Trial is now considered a lynchpin in turning attitudes against teaching creationism in public schools (Moore, 2000). However, consistent adverse legal rulings have not prevented alternative origin stories from gaining prominence in public arenas (e.g., Bloomfield, 2017; Kelly & Hoerl, 2012; Lynch, 2013; Panicker, 2019). Public schools continue to find loopholes enabling them to teach creationist content (e.g., Funk et al, 2019; Jaffe, 2015; Offord, 2018), journal articles with creationist content are published (e.g., Grant, 2016; Oransky, 2019; Yeager, 2019), and creationist tourist attractions receive millions of annual visitors (e.g., Bloomfield, 2017; Trollinger & Trollinger, 2016), sponsored by creationist groups that receive tens of millions of dollars in annual donations (Charity Navigator, 2019).…”

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The Rhetorical Impact of the Scopes Trial’s Interconnected Public Memory Places

Bloomfield

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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In 1925, the Scopes Trial, one of the first legal battles over teaching evolution in public schools, was held in Dayton, Tennessee. Dayton commemorates the trial with a trinity of sites: The Scopes Trial Museum, the Scopes Trial Trail, and Bryan College. I argue that the trail connects the two other public memory places physically and symbolically, inviting visitors to follow the journey of William Jennings Bryan’s death at the Scopes Trial Museum to a rebirth of creationism at Bryan College. This inquiry attends to the influence of creationist messages at historical landmarks in shaping public understanding of the past. Furthermore, I explore how a museum experience can be felt across multiple memory places to elicit subject positions in visitors.

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Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

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The Rhetorical Impact of the Scopes Trial’s Interconnected Public Memory Places

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