Sharon Macdonald

Sharon Macdonald erforscht, wie Museen und Kulturerbe-Institutionen mit gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart umgehen – insbesondere mit Fragen von Dekolonialisierung, Populismus, Migration und Diversität. Sie nutzt ethnografische Feldforschung, um zu verstehen, wie Kuratoren praktisch mit schwierigen Objekten (z. B. Artefakte des Nationalsozialismus), kolonialen Sammlungen und multiperspektivischen Darstellungen umgehen und welche Effekte populistische Politiken auf Museen haben. Ihre aktuelle Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Transformation von Kulturerbe in einem sich wandelnden Europa sowie auf die Frage, wie Museen inklusive und nicht-ausgrenzende Verbindungen zu Heimat und Zugehörigkeit fördern können. Die Erkenntnisse sind relevant für Museen, Gedenkstätten, Kulturinstitutionen und die öffentliche Hand, die ihre Sammlungen, Ausstellungen und Vermittlung neu gestalten wollen.

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• VA: Konferenz "Experiencing Differences and Diversities in Contemporary Germany"

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  Zeitraum: 01/2016 - 06/2016 Projektleitung: Sharon Macdonald

• EU: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages With the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES)

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  Förderer: Horizon 2020: Research and Innovation Action (RIA) Zeitraum: 03/2016 - 02/2019 Projektleitung: Sharon Macdonald

• Making Differences in Berlin: Transforming Museums and Heritage in the 21st Century (AvH-Professur Macdonald)

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  Förderer: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Zeitraum: 03/2017 - 07/2021 Projektleitung: Sharon Macdonald

• 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension

  2024

  European Heart Journal · DOI

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• Memorylands

  2013

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  Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is related to the changing nature of identities – especially European, national and cosmopolitan. In doing so, it provides new insights into how memory and the past are being performed and reconfigured in Europe – and with what effects. Drawing especially, though not exclusively, on cases, concepts and arguments from social and cultural anthropology, Memorylands argues for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the cultural assumptions involved in relating to the past. It theorizes the various ways in which ‘materializations’ of identity work and relates these to different forms of identification within Europe. The book also addresses questions of methodology, including discussion of historical, ethnographic, interdisciplinary and innovative methods. Through a wide-range of case-studies from across Europe, Sharon Macdonald argues that Europe is home to a much greater range of ways of making the past present than is usually realized – and a greater range of forms of ‘historical consciousness’. At the same time, however, she seeks to highlight what she calls ‘the European memory complex’ – a repertoire of prevalent patterns in forms of recollection and ‘past presencing’. The examples in Memorylands are drawn from both the margins and metropolitan centres, from the relatively small-scale and local, the national and the avant-garde. The book looks at pasts that are potentially identity-disrupting – or ‘difficult’ – as well as those that affirm identities or offer possibilities for transcending national identities or articulating more cosmopolitan futures. Topics covered include authenticity, temporalities, embodiment, commodification, nostalgia and Ostalgie, the musealization of everyday and folk-life, Holocaust commemoration and tourism, narratives of war, the heritage of Islam, transnationalism, and the future of the past. Memorylands is engagingly written and accessible to general readers as well as offering a new synthesis for advanced researchers in memory and heritage studies. It is essential reading for those interested in identities, memory, material culture, Europe, tourism and heritage.