Philosophy and the museum: An introduction to the special issue

Lord, Beth

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“…The work undertaken by the Stores Move Project has demonstrated on a large scale the potential of the database to honestly reflect MAA’s past, driving changes to provide a platform for more responsible and responsive engagement. It represents a tool for precisely the type of institutional self-critique that Foucault sees as essential to making meaningful social change (Lord 2006); it offers a way to acknowledge and contextualize past attitudes without erasure, while creating new interpretations that embrace plurality and greater equity, and in so doing challenge the idea of the museum as monolithic.…”

Section: Historicizing the Databasementioning

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“…As Lord (2006, 2) acknowledges, museums have often been “characterized as Enlightenment institution[s] whose power to collect and display objects is a function of capitalism and imperialism.” And yet the museum’s capacity for self-reflexive critique means that, rather than perpetuating existing power structures, it is “able to resist and transgress systems that cast power relations and historical events as fixed and necessary” (Lord 2006, 2). In other words, the museum and the database in particular can become powerful sites for the re-contextualizing of knowledge production and the extension of access and inclusion.…”

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Moving On: Rethinking Practice and Transforming Data at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Carreau,

Gunn

2024

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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Scholarly attention is increasingly focusing on museum catalogues: their histories, challenges and, as this paper explores, their potential. Many databases contain outdated information and offensive language, the legacy of colonial-era knowledge production and digitization processes that translated catalogue cards into database entries. Much has been written about the potential of catalogues to act as sites of contact and collaboration, as well as how institutions can and should mitigate harm stemming from discriminatory language within their catalogues. Yet as museum practitioners are acutely aware, the extensive work required to enact change throughout a database is rarely perceived as exciting enough to garner dedicated project funding. This paper uses the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Stores Move Project (2020–2024) as a case study to illustrate how museums can, and realistically must, integrate critical documentation work into larger projects in order to achieve these objectives. The authors first engage with MAA’s own history of collecting and cataloguing, before detailing how collections staff have incorporated documentation priorities (re-cataloguing, historicizing data, and addressing bias) into the larger Project. They conclude with the hope that by making this work more visible and demonstrating its value, such projects might attract dedicated funding in the future.

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Section: Historicizing the Databasementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Moving On: Rethinking Practice and Transforming Data at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Carreau,

Gunn

2024

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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“…Museums have come under increasing pressure recently to address the colonial legacies of many of their collections. In that sense, the drive for diversity in museums can be part of an accommodation to de-colonial contemporary movements – what Hicks refers to as the ‘scramble for decolonisation’ (Hicks, 2020: 9; see also Lord, 2006). This has recently become a highly politicised space – with attempts by museums to address colonial pasts becoming a focus of criticism within the ‘culture wars’ with the previous UK Culture Minister Oliver Dowden threatening funding cuts to those cultural institutions that removed controversial objects from display.…”

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The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality

Ali

Byrne

2022

Cultural Sociology

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Diversity has increasingly become coveted in the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs), with a significant presence in institutional and policy vocabularies. The concern to employ diverse staff and cater to diverse audiences is driven by socio-economic rationales and in terms of ethnicity, the focus of this article, is justified by the levels of ethnic inequality within CCIs. This article argues that the painfully slow progress in advancing ethnic equality in CCIs pertains to the discursive conceptualisation of diversity, which translates into practices lacking in efficacy and legacy. It traces the evolution of the diversity discourse in CCIs from impassioned calls against racial inequality to a less politically conscious multicultural vision of society, and shifts to a discourse on creative diversity. Focusing on the production of, rather than representation in, culture, the article draws uniquely on an intensive institutional ethnography and interviews in two organisations in the museum and TV production sectors, both of which had committed to diversifying their workforce and practice. With a recognition of the historical and contextual differences in the two sectors’ approaches to diversity, we present an analysis of the micro institutional ways in which diversity is performed as a way of understanding the macro workings of diversity in CCIs at large. Our empirical discussion examines Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policy as one of the more institutionally entrenched and visible practices of diversity and explores diversity schemes as a ‘quick fix’ that cultural organisations have increasingly pursued. While examining these practices, we centre the experiences of ethnically diverse cultural workers as the bearers of diversity work in the context of what we term white institutional benevolence. Those accounts reveal a complex web of intersecting institutional and socio-cultural barriers that need to be urgently addressed for a future cultural sector that is purposely anti-racist, equal and representative.

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“…Artinya, ruang destinasi wisata anak terbentuk karena adanya kepentingankepentingan dari oligarki untuk memelihara kekuasannya, baik itu dari institusi pemerintah, pendidikan, maupun keluarga. (Lord, 2006). Museum sebagai heterotopia merupakan sebuah ruang representasi.…”

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Heteropia Taman Melati Kota Padang: Tinjauan Terhadap Teori Heteropia Foucault

Rahmaini

2022

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Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan heteropia Taman Melati Kota Padang dengan menggunakan teori heteropia Foucault melalui pendekatan kualitatif. Teori Heteropia melihat bahwa ruang publik mengindikasikan ruang alternatif atas keteraturan yang ada dengan komunitas yang berbeda-beda pemanfaatannya. Heterotopia memiliki normanya sendiri yang kadang berlawanan dengan norma yang berlaku di masyarakat. Hal ini sebagai akibat dari salah satu sifat heterotopia sebagai ruang alternatif atas keteraturan yang ada di dalam masyarakat. Hasil penelitian menjelaskan dalam ruang taman melati terdapat berbagai macam bentuk heteropia diantaranya adalah destinasi wisata anak, ruang sosio-historis, kegiatan ekonomi, hingga prostitusi keliling. Ruang heteropia taman melati tidak hanya berisi heteropia kritis, tetapi juga heteropia deviasi seperti transaksi prostitusi keliling pada malam hari.

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Philosophy and the museum: An introduction to the special issue

Cited by 10 publications

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Moving On: Rethinking Practice and Transforming Data at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Moving On: Rethinking Practice and Transforming Data at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality

Heteropia Taman Melati Kota Padang: Tinjauan Terhadap Teori Heteropia Foucault

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