TY - JOUR
AU - Fredrik Portin
AU - Klas Grinell
AB - This article offers a Latourian perspective on ICOM’s new definition of a museum. It argues that a thorough understanding of politics as a public practice is needed in order to make the definition practically applicable. The task of the museum will accordingly vary depending on how the meaning of a museum as a “democratising, inclusive and polyphonic” space is explicated. Here a hitherto unchartered aspect of Latour’s political philosophy within museum studies is used to investigate the political nature of museums. It is argued that the new definition calls for museums that are diplomatic institutions open to the public, representing the social and its tangible and intangible heritage with a hope for peace, for the mediation of social tensions.
BT - Curator-the Museum Journal
DA - oct
DO - 10.1111/cura.12443
LA - English
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
N2 - This article offers a Latourian perspective on ICOM’s new definition of a museum. It argues that a thorough understanding of politics as a public practice is needed in order to make the definition practically applicable. The task of the museum will accordingly vary depending on how the meaning of a museum as a “democratising, inclusive and polyphonic” space is explicated. Here a hitherto unchartered aspect of Latour’s political philosophy within museum studies is used to investigate the political nature of museums. It is argued that the new definition calls for museums that are diplomatic institutions open to the public, representing the social and its tangible and intangible heritage with a hope for peace, for the mediation of social tensions.
PY - 2021
SP - 675
EP - 691
T2 - Curator-the Museum Journal
TI - The Diplomatic Museum: A Latourian Perspective on the Civic Role of Museums
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85113728492&doi=10.1111%2fcura.12443&partnerID=40&md5=47c55ebf2db83a91999c286219598634
VL - 64
SN - 21516952 (ISSN)
ER -