Contesting Memory: "Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context (Proceedings of the International...

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Mohammad H Tamdgidi Ramón Grosfoguel

Contesting Memory

"Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context (Proceedings of the International...

Mohammad H Tamdgidi, Ramón Grosfoguel, Yvon Le Bot

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English

Ahead Publishing House (Imprint: Okcir Press)
10 November 2015

Museums & museology; Social & cultural history; Migration, immigration & emigration; Ethnic studies

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This Fall 2011 (IX, 4) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, entitled Contesting Memory: Museumizations of Migration in Comparative Global Context, includes papers from the conference on Museums and Migration organized by the volume co-editors on June 25-26, 2010, at the Maison des Science de l'Homme (MSH) in Paris. The focus here is on questions of representation and social agency of both migrants and migration museum officials, adopting a comparative perspective on the complex and conflictive articulation between how migrants are represented by themselves and by museum institutions. Migrants are not passive but social agents actively involved in their communities and socially vigilant of the way they are treated, perceived and represented by the host society. They produce also their own representations that are often in conflict with Western hegemonic perceptions of their cultures and identities. Their strong presence in global cities and metropolitan societies today confronts the dominant society with issues of racial/ethnic discrimination and historical memory otherwise ignored by hegemonic Western views. Museums dealing with the history of slavery, migration and colonialism emerged as spaces of contestation, the term migrant itself being contested by long-established minority groups as one of the ways the dominant society still treats them as foreigners and immigrants. Contributors include: Ramon Grosfoguel (also as journal issue guest editor), Yvon Le Bot (also as journal issue guest editor), Alexandra Poli (also as journal issue guest editor), Andrea Meza Torres, Lia Paula Rodrigues, Cristina Castellano, Estela Rodriguez Garcia, Ilham Boumankhar, Veronique Bragard, Artwell Cain, Stephen Small, and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi (also as journal editor-in-chief). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal's Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR's homepage.

Edited by: Mohammad H Tamdgidi
Guest editor: Ramón Grosfoguel, Yvon Le Bot
Imprint: Ahead Publishing House (Imprint: Okcir Press)
Edition: 2nd ed.
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781888024906
ISBN 10: 1888024909
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active