The Aftermaths of Participation : Outcomes and Consequences of Participatory Work with Forced Migrants in Museums.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boersma, Susanne.

Series:

Edition Museum

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Aftermaths of Participation

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do participatory museum projects with forced migrants impact both the museum and the participants? What happens during these projects and what is left of them afterwards? Based on interviews with museum practitioners, facilitators and project participants, Susanne Boersma brings together unique insights into museum work with forced migrants. Her study of participatory projects in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK reveals museums' limiting infrastructures, the shortcomings of their ethical frameworks, and the problems of addressing forced migrants as 'communities'. Outlining the diverging objectives, experiences and outcomes of participatory projects, she suggests how these might be united in practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. Participatory Museum Work with Forced Migrants

1. Contextualising Participation in Museums

2. Participatory Projects with Forced Migrants

II. Outcomes or Consequences?

3. Networking ‘Communities’

4. Processes of Empowerment

5. The Museum as a ‘Safe Space’

6. Towards a Changed Discourse?

7. Material Remnants and Digital Ruins

III. Challenging Neo-Colonial Museum Practices

8. Developing Infrastructures and Sustainable Ethics

9. Towards Evaluation-based Participatory Museum Work

Bibliography

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783839464113

3839464110

OCLC:

1355221167