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"Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from a range of disciplines. Exploring the meanings and politics of memory contests in Turkey, the book asks what it means for museums to imbue the past with political agendas through spectacular, emotive representations. Providing an in-depth examination of emotional practice in two Turkish museums that present contrasting representations of the national past, the book analyses relationships between memory, governmentality, identity and emotion. The museums discussed celebrate Ottoman and Early Republican pasts, linking to geo- and party politics, people's senses of who they are, popular memory culture, and competing national stories and identities vis-à-vis Europe and the wider world. Both museums use dramatic, emotive panoramas as key displays and the research at the heart of this book explores this seemingly anachronistic choice, and how it links with memory cultures to prompt visitors to engage imaginatively, socially, politically and morally with a particular version of the past. Although the book focuses on museums in Turkey, it uses this as a platform to address broader questions about memory culture, emotion and identity. As such, Museums and Memory Culture should be of great interest to academics and students around the world who are engaged in the study of museums, heritage, culture, history, politics, anthropology, sociology and the psychology of emotion"-- Provided by publisher.

Title Museums, emotion, and memory culture : the politics of the past in Turkey / Gönül Bozoğlu.
Additional Titles Politics of the past in Turkey
Publisher Abingdon, Oxon
New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
Creation Date 2020
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content The museums and their histories : the politics of Ottoman and Republican pasts -- Memory, emotion, politics : understanding visitor encounters with history in the museums -- Politics of display at the Panorama 1453 Museum -- Visitor experience at the Panorama 1453 Museum -- Politics of display at the Atatürk and War of Independence Museum -- Visitor experience at the Atatürk and War of Independence Museum -- Time machines and the politics of affective practice.
Series Routledge research in museum studies
Extent ix, 220 pages : illustrations (black and white)
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 997008636265605171

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