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This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of
public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum
institutions. Examining how a Franco-German museum exhibition
represents immigrants and exposes public stereotypes, the analysis
follows the process of the production and reception of the
exhibition as it travelled from Paris to Berlin. The author
proposes a microsociological contextualisation analysis integrating
discourse analysis and ethnography to compare formats of museum
work, social interaction in the exhibition and mass media debates.
Visitor reception of the different exhibition versions reveals the
symbolic nature of interactions in museums, for example concerning
conflicting political voices and accusations of censorship.
Depending on the institutional context, interactions in the museums
are geared towards securing immigrants a place in national
collective memory, towards carrying out debate on integration, or
providing opportunities for personal encounters and reflection
beyond national categorisation. This book will appeal to students
and researchers interested in work on the intersection of
sociology, cultural studies, and discursive psychology, in methods
of discourse analysis and ethnography; and to practitioners working
in museums.
This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of
public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum
institutions. Examining how a Franco-German museum exhibition
represents immigrants and exposes public stereotypes, the analysis
follows the process of the production and reception of the
exhibition as it travelled from Paris to Berlin. The author
proposes a microsociological contextualisation analysis integrating
discourse analysis and ethnography to compare formats of museum
work, social interaction in the exhibition and mass media debates.
Visitor reception of the different exhibition versions reveals the
symbolic nature of interactions in museums, for example concerning
conflicting political voices and accusations of censorship.
Depending on the institutional context, interactions in the museums
are geared towards securing immigrants a place in national
collective memory, towards carrying out debate on integration, or
providing opportunities for personal encounters and reflection
beyond national categorisation. This book will appeal to students
and researchers interested in work on the intersection of
sociology, cultural studies, and discursive psychology, in methods
of discourse analysis and ethnography; and to practitioners working
in museums.
This edited book brings together humanities and social sciences
scholars from the various disciplines at the nexus of discourse
studies and ethnography to reflect on questions of institutional
practices and their political concerns. Institutional order plays
an important role in structuring power relations in society. Yet,
contrary to common understandings of structure, institutional
orders are far from fixed or stable. They constantly change, and
they are resisted and reimagined by social actors. The 20 studies
collected in this edited volume develop the notion of
institutionality as an overarching perspective to explore how
institutional actors and institutional practices order and reorder
power in societies across the globe. Thereby the chapters pay
special attention to the fluidity, volatility, fragility, and
ambiguity of order, and consequently to its claims to authority.
Employing a broad range of discourse analytic and ethnographic
methodologies, the studies show how institutions are discursively
and materially constructed, defined, represented and how they are
made relevant and become powerful - or how they are resisted,
transformed or lose significance - in interaction. Readers will
obtain nuanced insights into ways in which differently positioned
social actors engage in struggles about how institutions can be
imagined and enacted across several domains, such as workplace
interactions, architecture, mass-media representations or
organisational publicity. This book will be of interest to readers
in Applied Linguistics, Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse
Analysis, Political Theory and Communication Studies.
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