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Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments Philipp Schorch, Daniel Habit
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ethnografische Perspektiven auf das östliche Europa ; Bd. 7.
- Ethnografische Perspektiven auf das östliche Europa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- (Post-)Socialism.
- Material Culture.
- Eastern Europe.
- GDR.
- Curation.
- Architecture.
- Memory Culture.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Anthropology.
- Local Subjects:
- (Post-)Socialism.
- Material Culture.
- Eastern Europe.
- GDR.
- Curation.
- Architecture.
- Memory Culture.
- Cultural History.
- Cultural Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Schorch/Habit (eds.), Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Philipp Schorch is a professor of museum anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, leading an ERC-project entitled »Indigeneities in the 21st Century«. He is also an honorary senior research associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on museums, material culture/history/theory, contemporary art and (post)colonial histories, the Pacific and Europe, and collaborations with Indigenous artists/curators/scholars.
- Daniel Habit (Dr.) is a senior lecturer at the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universiät in Munich, where he received his PhD with a thesis on the concept of The European Capital of Culture programme of the European Union. His current research project in cooperation with the DFG funded research group »Urban Ethics« deals with diverse processes of transformation in Bucharest from a urban and moral anthropology perspective.
- Summary:
- In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases ›curation‹ from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity, and material commemorative culture.
- Besprochen in:Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, 10 (2022), Valentin Gorbachev
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Inhalt/Contents 5 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 11 1. Vergangenheit, was tun? 31 2. Monuments and Memorial Spaces of Socialist Bulgaria 57 3. Curating Out the Socialist Alternative 81 4. Kunstobjekte auf der Drehbühne der Geschichte 101 5. Re-curated Remains 123 6. Beyond Horseplay 141 7. (Re-)curating Africa 165 8. Curator's Trade in Ideals 185 9. Rehearsal for Lumumba 207 10. Aus Häusern und Containern 237 11. Handgezeichnete Afrikakarten in ihrem Entstehungsumfeld der DDR 263 12. "Verstoßene Soldaten" - verstoßene Helden? 281 13. Curating Socialism? Curating Democracy! 309 Afterword 331 Contributors to this Volume 339
- Notes:
- CC BY-NC-ND
- ISBN:
- 9783839455906
- 3839455901
- OCLC:
- 1257667567
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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