1st Edition
Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture The Politics of the Past in Turkey
By Gönül Bozoğlu
Copyright 2020
232 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory studies, anthropology and studies of emotion. Exploring the meanings and politics of memory contests in Turkey, a site for complex negotiations of identity, the book asks what it means for museums to charge the past with political agendas... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Museums and their histories: the politics of Ottoman and Republican pasts
3. Memory, emotion, politics: understanding visitor encounters with history in the museums
4. Politics of display at the Panorama 1453 Museum
5. Visitor experience at the Panorama 1453 Museum
6. Politics of display at the Atatürk and War of Independence Museum
7. Visitor experience at the Atatürk and War of Independence Museum
8. Time machines and the politics of affective practice
Biography
Gönül Bozoğlu is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Newcastle University, UK, where she undertakes research across heritage, memory, and museum studies.
