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This major multi-researcher ethnography provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. The fieldwork is based on the Humboldt Forum, the Museum...
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The museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and heritage in Berlin provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. Exploring new initiatives and approaches, the book shows how these work – or do not – in practice. By doing so, it highlights ways forward – for research and action – for the future. The fieldwork locations on which this book is based include the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as Berlin streets and protests.
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Price: $40.00
Pages: 324
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
Publication Date: 06 June 2023
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837664096
Format: Paperback
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
»Gerade in Zeiten, in denen rechtspopulistische und rechtsextreme politische Parteien neuen Aufschwung in Europa und weltweit erhalten, verspricht der in diesem Band vorgestellte Forschungsansatz komplexere Antworten auf die Frage zu liefern, wie ganz praktisch demokratisierende und diversifiziernde Veränderungen umsetzbar sind.«
Sharon Macdonald is Alexander von Humboldt professor of social anthropology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she directs both the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik and CARMAH (the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage).

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
List of Images 9
Doing Diversity, Making Differences. Multi-Researcher Ethnography in Museums and Heritage in Berlin 13
Talking and Going about Things Differently. On Changing Vocabularies and Practices in the Postcolonial Provenance and Restitution Debates 57
Being Affected. Shifting Positions at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin 77
Beyond Compare. Juxtaposition, Enunciation and African Art in Berlin Museums 97
Polarised Public Perceptions of German Colonialism. Visitor Comments at the DHM German Colonialism Exhibition 117
Changing Street Names. Decolonisation and Toponymic Reinscription for Doing Diversity in Berlin 137
Dis-Othering Diversity. Troubling differences in a Berlin-Brussels Afropolitan curatorial collaboration 157
Diversity Max*. Multiple Differences in Exhibition-Making in Berlin Global in the Humboldt Forum 173
Diversifying the Collections at the Museum of European Cultures 193
Collecting Diversity. Data and Citizen Science at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 211
Exploring the Futurabilities of Museums. Making differences with the Museum Divan at the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin 229
Willkommen im Museum. Making and Unmaking Refugees in the Multaka Project 247
i,Slam. Belonging and Difference on Stage in Berlin 261
Transnational Entanglements of Queer Solidarity. Berlin Walks with Istanbul Pride March 277
Difficult Heritage and Digital Media. 'Selfie culture' and Emotional Practices at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 293
Making Differences to Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage. An Afterword 315
Notes on Contributors 319