The Art of Minorities

Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4377-7 (ISBN)

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Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region - examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities.

How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed? Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region – examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities. They bring to the fore the region's diversity and sketches a 'museology of disaster' in which minoritised political subjects regain visibility.

Virginie Rey is Research Associate at the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-editor (with Stephen Pascoe and Paul James) of Making Modernity in the Middle East: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb (Arena Publications, 2015) and is author of Mediating Museums: Tunisian Ethnographic Museums (1881-2016) (Brill, 2019).

Introduction

1. Engaging with ‘Minority’ Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North AfricaVirginie Rey

Exhibiting Minorities

2. The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical IdentityVirginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe

3. 'The Performance of Servitude': Negotiating Citizenship, Race, and Gender in Local and National Museums in Bahrain and the UAEJohn Thabiti Willis

4. When the Local Population is a Minority: The Case of the Oudaya Museum in Rabat as a Key to Understand Elitism in Moroccan MuseumsFrancesca de Micheli

5. Past Lodges, Present Prayers: Sufism and Museums in Konya and HacıbektaşLucía Cirianni Salazar

Minorities Exhibiting

6. Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab EmiratesSarina Wakefield

7. Paving the Way to a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in LebanonRita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher

8. Imperilled Objects and Unsafe Ideas: The Palestinian Museum, BirzeitZoe Holman

9. Egypt’s Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to NationalDina Bakhoum

10. Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in EssaouiraAomar Boum

Imagined Museums

11. Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my CountryHabib Kazdaghli

12. Do I Even Exist? Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan MuseumVera Eccarius-Kelly

13. Islamic State’s Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict CapitalismAmanda Rogers

14. Afterword: Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of DisasterKatazyna Pieprzak.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Alternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
Zusatzinfo	69 black and white illustrations, 3 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-4377-X / 147444377X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4377-7 / 9781474443777
Zustand	Neuware