Research Catalog

Title

The art of minorities : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Virginie Rey.

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

Rey, Virginie, 1978-

Description

xx, 313 pages : illustrations, plan; 24 cm.

Summary

"How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed? Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region – examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities. They bring to the fore the region’s diversity and sketches a ‘museology of disaster’ in which minoritised political subjects regain visibility"--

Series Statement

Alternative histories: narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean

Uniform Title

Alternative histories.

Subject

• Museums and minorities > Middle East
• Museums and minorities > Africa, North
• Art museums > Collection management > Middle East
• Art museums > Collection management > Africa, North
• Art museums > Collection management
• Museums and minorities
• Middle East
• North Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Engaging with ‘minority’ voices : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa / Virginie Rey -- The ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus : from compact minorities to toponymical identity / Virginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe -- 'The performance of servitude' : negotiating citizenship, race, and gender in local and national museums in Bahrain and the UAE / John Thabiti Willis -- When the local population is a minority : the case of the Oudaya Museum in Rabat as a key to understand Elitism in Moroccan museums / Francesca de Micheli -- Past lodges, present prayers : Sufism and museums in Konya and Hacıbektaş / Lucía Cirianni Salazar -- Museums, migrant labourers and ethnic spatiality in the United Arab Emirates / Sarina Wakefield -- Paving the way to a Lebanese national narrative : empathy at the Armenian genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon / Rita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher -- Imperilled objects and unsafe ideas : the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit / Zoe Holman -- Egypt’s Coptic Museum : from patriarchal to national / Dina Bakhoum -- Branding convivencia : Jewish museums and the reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira / Aomar Boum -- Is Tunisia ready for a Jewish museum? Perspectives on the current debates surrounding the status of Jewish heritage in my country / Habib Kazdaghli -- Do I even exist? Kurdish diaspora artists reflect on imaginary exhibits in a Kurdistan museum / Vera Eccarius-Kelly -- Islamic State’s archive of the digital infinite : imagined museums, new media and conflict capitalism / Amanda Rogers -- Afterword : minoritised memory and affect in a museology of disaster / Katazyna Pieprzak.

ISBN

• 9781474443760
• 1474443761
• 9781474443784 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781474443791 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• on1180283420
• 1180283420
• SCSB-9751582

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library