Sharon Macdonald
Profil
Zusammenfassung
Sharon Macdonald ist Expertin für Museologie und Kulturerbe-Forschung mit Fokus darauf, wie Museen und Gedenkstätten Identität, Erinnerung und gesellschaftliche Unterschiede vermitteln. Sie untersucht, wie Museen Ausstellungen gestalten, welche Bedeutungen sie für Besuchende haben, und wie schwierige oder umstrittene Vergangenheiten (etwa Nazi-Erbe) öffentlich dargestellt und verhandelt werden. Ihre Arbeit verbindet ethnografische Feldforschung mit Medientheorie und ist für Institutionen relevant, die Sammlungen, Ausstellungen oder digitale Archive kuratieren.
Skills
Stammdaten
Identität, Organisation und Kontakt aus HU-FIS.
Forschungsthemen10
Curating Digital Images: Ethnografische Perspektiven auf die Affordanzen digitaler Bilder im Kontext von Museen und kulturellem Erbe
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Schwerpunktprogramm Zeitraum: 12/2019 - 11/2022 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither, Sharon Macdonald, Prof. Dr. Elke Greifeneder
Curating Digital Images: Ethnografische Perspektiven auf die Affordanzen digitaler Bilder im Kontext von Museen und kulturellem Erbe
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Schwerpunktprogramm Zeitraum: 12/2019 - 11/2022 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Elke Greifeneder, Sharon Macdonald, Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither
EU: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages With the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES)
Quelle ↗Förderer: Horizon 2020: Research and Innovation Action (RIA) Zeitraum: 03/2016 - 02/2019 Projektleitung: Sharon Macdonald
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Publikationen25
Top 25 nach Zitationen — Quelle: OpenAlex (BAAI/bge-m3 embedded für Matching).
European Heart Journal · 1914 Zitationen · DOI
Guidelines on hypertension ESC 2024
Memorylands
2013620 Zitationen · DOI
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.
252 Zitationen · DOI
What goes on behind closed doors at museums? How are decisions about exhibitions made and who, or what, really makes them? Why are certain objects and styles of display chosen whilst others are rejected, and what factors influence how museum exhibitions are produced and experienced? This book answers these searching questions by giving a privileged look behind the scenes at the Science Museum in London. By tracking the history of a particular exhibition, Macdonald takes the reader into the world of the museum curator and shows in vivid detail how exhibitions are created and how public culture is produced. She reveals why exhibitions do not always reflect their makers original intentions and why visitors take home particular interpretations. Beyond this local context, however, the book also provides broad and far-reaching insights into how national and global political shifts influence the creation of public knowledge through exhibitions.
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EU: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages With the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES)
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EXC 2025: Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
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EU: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages With the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES)
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