Museums, the Media and Refugees

Stories of Crisis, Control and Compassion
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-542-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 212 mm x 269 mm, Gewicht: 762 g

Reihe: Museums and Diversity

Across countries and time, asylum-seekers and refugees have been represented in a variety of ways. In some representations they appear negatively, as dangers threatening to ‘over-run’ a country or a region with ‘floods’ of incompatible strangers. In others, the same people are portrayed positively, with compassion, and pictured as desperately in need of assistance. How these competing perceptions are received has significant consequences for determining public policy, human rights, international agreements, and the realization of cultural diversity, and so it is imperative to understand how these images are perpetuated. To this end, this volume reflects on museum practice and the contexts, stories, and images of asylum seekers and refugees prevalent in our mass media.

Based on case studies from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, the overall findings are illustrative of narratives and images common to museums and the media throughout the world. They aim to challenge political rhetoric and populist media imagery and consider what forms of dissent are likely to be sustained and what narratives ultimately break through and can lead to empathy and positive political change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodnow, Katherine

Lohman, Jack

Marfleet, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Jack Lohman

How do we sing our song in a strange land? Belonging: Voices of London’s Refugees in the Museum of London

Jack Lohman

Forgotten by History: Refugees, Historians and Museums in Britain

Philip Marfleet

Section 1. Traditional Methods and New Moves – Migrant and Refugee Exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand Katherine Goodnow

Section 2. Framing Refugees – Contexts and Narratives in Other Media

Katherine Goodnow

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview

Chapter 2. Conceptual Proposals and Analytic Steps

Chapter 3. Specifying Contexts – Significant Features

Chapter 4. The Tampa and Initial Framing

Chapter 5. Hardening and Sustaining a Frame

Chapter 6. One Representation Unravelled, Another Sustained

Chapter 7. Dissent – Challenges Focused on Truth and Law

Chapter 8. Point of Change – From Concerns for Individuals to Concerns for Groups

Chapter 9. Change – From Individuals to Groups to Policies

Chapter 10. Extensions – Other Countries, Continuing Questions

Über Autor(innen)

Marfleet, Philip
Philip Marfleet is Professor at the Refugee Studies Programme of the University of East London.

Goodnow, Katherine
Katherine Goodnow is Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway and co-editor of the UNESCO Museums and Diversity Series.

Lohman, Jack
Jack Lohman is Director of the Museum of London, Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Chairman of ICOM UK and co-editor of the UNESCO Museums and Diversity Series.

Jack Lohman is Director of the Museum of London, Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Chairman of ICOM UK and co-editor of the UNESCO Museums and Diversity Series.