Research Field 02 explored the complex interactions between the cultural formations of memory, belonging and contemporary museum practices in the light of migration. Researchers analysed the ongoing cultural debate on the historical nature and contemporary sense of the museum, highlighting the crucial role it has played in narrating national identities and cultural belonging, and the difficulties faced in registering and exhibiting histories that tend to be excluded or marginalized in existing understandings of modernity. The recovery of unregistered histories allowed to reconsider the potential changes that the museum could promote as a social and political actor, and the extensive and multilateral impact of museum practices in addressing, directly and indirectly, comprehension of civic interaction and citizenship.
Scientific Coordinator | Department of Human and Social Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (UNO)
Principal Investigator | Iain Chambers
Associate Researchers I Lidia Curti, Giulia Grechi, Beatrice Ferrara, Celeste Ianniciello, Michaela Quadraro, Mariangela Orabona, Alessandra De Angelis (UNO), Mark Nash (RCA)
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