Neo-national(ist) Histories: The product of European national museums’ alienated labour.

Mali, Sofia (2020) Neo-national(ist) Histories: The product of European national museums’ alienated labour. In: People’s History? Radical Historiography and the Left in the Twentieth Century, 15th February 2020, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

Dr Sofia Mali of the School of Art, Design and Performance, Senior Lecturer in Cultural theory, was invited to present her paper with title 'Neo-national(ist) Histories: The product of European national museums’ alienated labour' at the Conference People's History? Radical Historiography and the Left in the 20th Century, organised, and hosted by UEA School of History, with Socialist History journal and the Institute of Working-Class History, Chicago. Her paper discusses the way that current, neoliberal contexts feed into national museums' curatorial work, and explores the reasons why today, curating in national museums is still ‘mystified’. In other words, why museum meaning is ideologically constructed, and why it adheres to dominant ideas, values and beliefs around the national history and identity of the country to which each national museum belongs. It explains ‘mystification’ as an effect and end result of power politics/relations and alienation. Her paper discusses the way that current, neoliberal contexts feed into national museums' curatorial work, and explores the reasons why today, curating in national museums is still ‘mystified’. In other words, why museum meaning is ideologically constructed, and why it adheres to dominant ideas, values and beliefs around the national history and identity of the country to which each national museum belongs. It explains ‘mystification’ as an effect and end result of power politics/relations and alienation.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
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Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2020 07:39
Last Modified:	28 Sep 2020 08:02
URI:	https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18025

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