Exhibiting Nation
Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums
Seiten
2017
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3164-2 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3164-2 (ISBN)
This exploration of museums as sites for representing and defining national identity encourages us to reconsider the idea of the multicultural nation.
Canada’s brand of nationalism celebrates diversity – as long as it doesn’t challenge the unity, authority, or legitimacy of the state. In Exhibiting Nation, Caitlin Gordon-Walker explores this tension between unity and diversity in three nationally recognized museums, institutions that must make judgments about what counts as “too different” in order to celebrate who we are as a people and a nation.
Exhibiting Nation takes readers on a journey through the Royal BC Museum, the Royal Alberta Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum, stopping to focus on exhibitions, programs, and architectural features that demonstrate how notions of unity in diversity have shaped the way museums engage visitors’ senses and make use of space. Although the contradictions that lie at the heart of multicultural nationalism have the potential to constrain political engagement and dialogue, Gordon-Walker concludes that the sensory feasts on display in Canada’s museums provide a space for citizens to both question and renegotiate the limits of their national vision.
Canada’s brand of nationalism celebrates diversity – as long as it doesn’t challenge the unity, authority, or legitimacy of the state. In Exhibiting Nation, Caitlin Gordon-Walker explores this tension between unity and diversity in three nationally recognized museums, institutions that must make judgments about what counts as “too different” in order to celebrate who we are as a people and a nation.
Exhibiting Nation takes readers on a journey through the Royal BC Museum, the Royal Alberta Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum, stopping to focus on exhibitions, programs, and architectural features that demonstrate how notions of unity in diversity have shaped the way museums engage visitors’ senses and make use of space. Although the contradictions that lie at the heart of multicultural nationalism have the potential to constrain political engagement and dialogue, Gordon-Walker concludes that the sensory feasts on display in Canada’s museums provide a space for citizens to both question and renegotiate the limits of their national vision.
Caitlin Gordon-Walker is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies the politics of public cultural representation in relation to nationalism, colonialism, and difference.
Preface: A Sense of Discomfort
Part 1: Introduction
1 Multicultural Nationalism and the Power of Metaphor
2 Museums, Discipline, and Dialogue
Part 2: Feast
3 The Limits of Unity in Diversity
4 The Royal BC Museum’s Modern History Galleries
Part 3: Spectacle
5 The Limits of Equality and Recognition
6 The Royal Alberta Museum’s Cultural Communities Program
Part 4: Border
7 The Limits of Universalism and Diversity
8 The Royal Ontario Museum’s World Cultures Galleries
Epilogue: Working with the Contradictions
Notes; Bibliography; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 13 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Vancouver |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7748-3164-2 / 0774831642 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-3164-2 / 9780774831642 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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