The Ethics of Collecting Trauma (eBook, ePUB)

The Role of Museums in Collecting and Displaying Contemporary Crises
Redaktion: Bounia, Alexandra; Witcomb, Andrea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are involved in collecting moments of collective trauma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040149584
• Artikelnr.: 72289883

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Bounia is Professor of Museology at the University of the Aegean, Greece. Andrea Witcomb is the Alfred Deakin Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction:
Why a book on the ethics of collecting contemporary trauma is needed; Part
I: Natureculture traumas - 2. The crisis that binds us: The ethics of
collecting trauma in 'catastrophic times'; 3. A Future for Memory:
Resurgence of culture-nature in the aftermath of 3.11; 4. Mapping
memorialisation of pandemic experiences: Care, stewardship and
guardianship; 5. Towards a higher standard: Museums, communities of trauma,
and the public trust; Part II: Decolonising trauma - 6. Poetics, politics
and ethics of collecting: Two Brazillian cases; 7. Engaging with colonial
collecting practices today: Practising 'epistemic disobedience'; Part III:
The traumas of war, terrorism and forceful displacement - 8. Ethically
contested exhumations in Eastern Zimbabwe: a compromise between spiritual
approaches and scientific practices; 9. Silence and Remembering: Locating
the Cultural Trauma of Terrorism in London's Museums, Archives and
Memorials; 10. Ethics of care in collecting spontaneous memorials; 11.
Collecting (forced) migration: the ethics of collecting 'neglected things';
12. Afterword; Index.