Sharon Macdonald
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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
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
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
EXC 2025: Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Exzellenzstrategie Cluster Zeitraum: 01/2019 - 12/2025 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. phil. Wolfgang Schäffner, Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis
Heritage in Transformation (InHerit)
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 01/2024 - 12/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Eva Ehninger, Sharon Macdonald
Making Differences in Berlin: Transforming Museums and Heritage in the 21st Century (AvH-Professur Macdonald)
Quelle ↗Förderer: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Zeitraum: 03/2017 - 07/2021 Projektleitung: Sharon Macdonald
Mindscapes: Wellcome Mental Health Curatorial Fellow
Quelle ↗Förderer: Andere inländische Stiftungen Zeitraum: 07/2021 - 10/2023 Projektleitung: Sharon Macdonald
SPP 2172: 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: Sharon Macdonald, Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither, Prof. Dr. Elke Greifeneder
VA: Konferenz "Experiencing Differences and Diversities in Contemporary Germany"
Quelle ↗Zeitraum: 01/2016 - 06/2016 Projektleitung: Sharon Macdonald
Wissenschaftliches Begleitvorhaben zur Unterstützung der geförderten Forschungsvorhaben der Förderrichtlinie „Vernetzen – Erschließen – Forschen. Allianz für Hochschulsammlungen II“
Quelle ↗Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 06/2022 - 05/2027 Projektleitung: Dr. Oliver Zauzig, Sharon Macdonald
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European Heart Journal · 1720 Zitationen · DOI
Memorylands
2013606 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.
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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.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 217 Zitationen · DOI
Introduction: Sharon Macdonald (Sheffield University). Part I: Contexts: Spaces and Times:. 1. Museums and Globalization: Martin Prosler (Tubingen, Germany). 2. How Societies Remember the Past: John Urry (Lancaster University). Part II: Contests: Differences and Identities:. 3. Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair: Vera Zolberg (New School of Social Research, New York). 4. Into the Heart of Irony: Ethnographic Exhibitions and the Politics of Difference: Henrietta Riegel (York University, Canada). 5. Seeing through Solidity: Feminist Perspectives on Museums: Gaby Porter (Manchester Museum of Science and Industry). 6. Decoding the Visitorsa Gaze: Rethinking Museum Visiting: Gordon Fyfe and Max Ross (Keele University). Part III: Contents: Classifications and Practice: . 7. The Utopics of Social Ordering: Stonehenge as a Museum without Walls: Kevin Hetherington (Keele University). 8. Maintaining Boundaries, or a Mainstreaminga Black History in a White Museum: Eric Gable (Yale University). 9. A Trojan Horse at the Tate: Theorizing the Museum as Agency and Structure: Gordon Fyfe (Keele University).
International Journal of Heritage Studies · 179 Zitationen · DOI
This article seeks to explore the relationships between heritage and identity by drawing on analytical discussions of material culture and historical consciousness and focusing on an empirical case of ‘undesirable heritage’, that is, a heritage that the majority of the population would prefer not to have. The case is that of the Nazi or fascist past in Germany, with specific reference to the former Nazi Party rally grounds in Nuremberg. By looking at some aspects of the ways in which this vast site of Nazi marching grounds and fascist buildings has been dealt with post‐war, the article seeks to show both the struggle with the materiality of the site and changing forms of historical consciousness. It focuses in particular on some of the post‐war dilemmas associated with the perceived agency of architecture, the sacralising and trivialising of space, the role and implications of musealisation, and the growth of a more reflective identity‐health form of historical consciousness.
Heritage Futures
2020UCL Press eBooks · 154 Zitationen · DOI
Museum and Society · 154 Zitationen · DOI
Museum visitor books, although held by almost all museums, are rarely used as a research source. This article explores their potential to provide insights and information about audience views, experiences and understandings. To do so, it focuses primarily on visitor books at the Documentation Centre of the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany. The article highlights questions about using such books as a research source and to this end it contains discussion of forms of address, visitor conceptions of the nature and role of visitor books and of museums and exhibitions, styles of entries, and ways in which visitors talk about exhibition media and types of display, and make comparisons and links with their own experience. It also includes discussion of some themes more specific to history exhibitions, including different possible ‘temporal orientations’ exhibited by visitors; as well as some more specific to the exhibition of morally and politically difficult topics, and of Nazism in particular.
CoDesign · 129 Zitationen · DOI
This article seeks to provide a review of research on museum visiting which has particular relevance for exhibition design. It focuses on empirical studies carried out in a range of social and cultural disciplines. The article begins with an overview of some of the main directions that have been reported in museum visitor study, in particular a shift towards considering visitors as ‘active’ and to looking at affective and embodied dimensions of the visitor experience as well as at the cognitive and ideational. It then looks in more detail at findings and attempts to build a conceptual vocabulary in three related areas of museum visitor research: media, sociality and space. In addition to assessing the state-of-play so far, the article seeks to outline areas for future research.
Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 111 Zitationen
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 96 Zitationen · DOI
Museum and Society · 90 Zitationen · DOI
Many social theorists have suggested that we are currently living in a period in which the identities of the past are becoming increasingly irrelevant and in which new identities, and new identity formations, are being created. The major identity colossus forged in the nineteenth century, and subsequently spread over much of the globe - nation-state identity - has been the subject of particular debate; and theorists have attempted to identify alternative, post-national (in the sense of post-nation-statist) identity constructions. The proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly closely bound up with the formation and solidification of nation-states in, and subsequently beyond, Western Europe. A crucial question for museums today concerns their role in a world in which nationstatist identities are being challenged. Are they too inextricably entangled in ‘old’ forms of identity to be able to express ‘new’ ones?
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 86 Zitationen · DOI
Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book is a sophisticated analysis of responses to the 'Gaelic renaissance' in a Scottish Hebridean community. Its description of everyday conceptions of belonging and interpretations of cultural policy takes us into the world of Gaelic playgroups, crofting, local history, religion and community development. Historically and theoretically informed, this book challenges many of the ways in which we conventionally think about ethnic and national identity. This accessible and engaging account of life in this remote region of Europe provides an original and timely contribution to questions of considerable currency in a broad range of social science disciplines.
Museum International · 84 Zitationen · DOI
This article discusses ‘difficult heritage’ as the phenomenon of nations or other collectives publicly signaling and commemorating past atrocities that they committed and for which they are ashamed. Through a focus on public commemoration and heritage of World War II in Europe, it shows that there has long been reluctance to acknowledge such potentially identity-disrupting pasts. This, however, is changing, with Germany at the forefront of a turn towards more frequent public addressing of unsettling pasts in museums and heritage sites. The article argues that this turn entailed some fundamental conceptual shifts, including changes in understandings of the agency of the past, of how best to tackle trauma and of the purpose of public remembering. The consequence of this, it maintains, is that addressing difficult heritage is no longer necessarily identity-disrupting in the way that it was formerly. Indeed, on the contrary, rather than being ‘difficult’ in this sense, it can be – and increasingly is – regarded as having positive identity effects.
Tourist Studies · 78 Zitationen · DOI
This article draws on media theory in order to theorize the role of tour guides as a form of cultural mediation. It does so by analysing the work of tour guides at a site of ‘difficult heritage’, the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany. The work of tour guides is here conceptualized primarily as a process in which guides, and the organization for which they work, are engaged in trying to encode preferred readings. The empirical study shows how this ‘encoding attempt’ is a complex, negotiated and sometimes conflictual process in which guides try to deal with the materiality of the site and the social dynamics of the tour group. This has implications for understanding the nature of mediation and of different forms of tourism.
Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 77 Zitationen
Journal of Cultural Economy · 76 Zitationen · DOI
This article explores the reassembly of the city of Nuremberg, Germany, through its heritage post- World War II. It does so primarily through consideration of two aspects of post-War heritage assembly and reassembly. First, it looks at the reconstruction of the city in the aftermath of bombing, with particular attention to the reassembling of historically significant architecture, though also in light of debates about reconstruction (of former buildings) versus construction (new build). Second, it investigates the making of Nazi architecture into heritage, initially through legislation and later through other accoutrements of heritage, such as information panels and guided tours. It is concerned, both for this specific case and also more widely, with what work the distinctive assemblage known as 'heritage’ can perform, including assembling and reassembling other entities, such as place, temporality, moralities and citizenship. In this way, the article seeks to explore the contribution that an assemblage perspective might make to the understanding of heritage as well as to consider some of its limitations.
Man · 71 Zitationen · DOI
Cultural Studies · 70 Zitationen · DOI
The set of objects the Museum displays is sustained only by the fiction that they somehow constitute a coherent representational universe…. Should the fiction disappear, there is nothing left of the Museum but (‘bric-a-brac’), a heap of meaningless and valueless fragments of objects which are incapable of substituting themselves either metonymically for the original objects or metaphorically for their representations. (Donato 1979: 223)
A PEOPLE’S STORY
200269 Zitationen · DOI
There is a story which I have heard, in various versions, many times in Skye. It goes like this:There was an old woman [or man] living in township X. One day a couple of tourists come by and start asking her questions. ‘Have you ever been outside this village?’ they ask. ‘Well, yes. I was at my sisters in [neighbouring township] not so long ago.’ ‘But you’ve never been off the island?’ ‘Well, I have, though not often I suppose.’ ‘So, you’ve been to the mainland?’ She nods. ‘So you found Inverness a big city then?’ ‘Well, not so big as Paris, New York or Sydney, of course…’ she explains, going on to reveal that she has travelled to numerous parts of the globe.
Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 66 Zitationen
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How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, using archival, interview and ethnographic sources, it provides not only fascinating new material and perspectives, but also more general original theorizing of the relationship between heritage, identity and material culture. The book looks at how Nuremberg has dealt with its Nazi past post-1945. It focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the city's architectural heritage, in particular, the former Nazi party rally grounds, on which the Nuremburg rallies were staged. The book draws on original sources, such as city council debates and interviews, to chart a lively picture of debate, action and inaction in relation to this site and significant others, in Nuremberg and elsewhere. In doing so, Difficult Heritage seeks to highlight changes over time in the ways in which the Nazi past has been dealt with in Germany, and the underlying cultural assumptions, motivations and sources of friction involved. Whilst referencing wider debates and giving examples of what was happening elsewhere in Germany and beyond, Difficult Heritage provides a rich in-depth account of this most fascinating of cases. It also engages in comparative reflection on developments underway elsewhere in order to contextualize what was happening in Nuremberg and to show similarities to and differences from the ways in which other 'difficult heritages' have been dealt with elsewhere. By doing so, the author offers an informed perspective on ways of dealing with difficult heritage, today and in the future, discussing innovative museological, educational and artistic practice.
Public Understanding of Science · 53 Zitationen · DOI
This article raises issues concerning popular representations of science, and in particular of scientific controversy, through a case-study of the treatment of food poisoning controversy in a museum exhibition. It is argued that the science that is created for the public is shaped not only by the overt intentions of the exhibition makers but also by constraints inherent in structural aspects of the exhibition-making process and exhibition philosophies. More specifically, we argue that some of the strategies intended to foster public understanding of science create problems for the representation of scientific controversy, and, more generally, for certain types of science. The article also gives attention to scientific sources and the politics of the museum's relationship with the scientific community and the food industry. The contrast with other media is made throughout the article as a means of highlighting the different strategies employed, and constraints experienced, by the various institutions involved in putting science on display for the public.
International Journal of Heritage Studies · 51 Zitationen · DOI
This article focuses on curators’ frustrations with (what we call) ‘the profusion struggle’. Curators express the difficulty of collecting the material culture of everyday life when faced with vast existing collections. They explain that these were assembled, partly, from anxiety to gather up what was anticipated at risk of being lost. Unlimited accumulation, and keeping everything forever, are being called into question, especially through the disposal debate which has gained in intensity over the past three decades. While often with some reluctance, setting limits by slowing collecting or even reducing collections through targeted letting go, or what is variously called ‘deaccessioning’, ‘disposing’, and ‘refining’ collections, are undertaken to facilitate ongoing collecting, amongst other goals. To respond to curatorial interest in strategies for addressing profusion, we draw on ethnographic fieldwork looking predominantly at social history museums in the United Kingdom, to consider whether ideas borrowed from beyond museums might be of use. We explore the possible implications of economic concepts of ‘de-growth’ – partly by seeing the ways that these ideas are already practiced, but also by examining curators’ own enthusiasms and reservations. To develop more sustainable collecting practices, we argue that ideas of collections ‘growth’ might be usefully reframed.
University of Wisconsin Press eBooks · 51 Zitationen
As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women s participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been underestimated or ignored. Images of Women in Peace and War explores women s relationships to war, peace, and revolution, from the Amazons, Inka and Boadicea, to women soldiers in South Africa, Mau Mau freedom fighters and the protestors at Greenham Common. The contributors consider not only the reality of women s participation but also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examine how sexual imagery is constructed, how it is used to delineate women s relation to warfare and how these images have sometimes been subverted in order to challenge the status quo. The book raises important questions about whether women have a special prerogative to promote peace and considers whether the experience of motherhood leads to a distinctive women s position on war. The authors find that their analyses lead them to deal with arguments on the basic nature of the sexes and to reevaluate our concepts of peace, war, and gender.
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EU: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages With the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES)
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