Book Chapters by Andrea Witcomb
The politics of mnemonic 'restorative practices': contesting memory, mobility, identity and objects in post-'refugee crisis' Lesbos
Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage: Beyond and between borders (edited by Alexandra Dellios and Eureka Henrich), 2021
The restorative museum: understanding the work of memory at the Museum of Refugee Memory in Skala Loutron, Lesvos, Greece
The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place, 2019
"Affective practices of learning at the museum: children's critical encounters with the past"
In Emotion, affective practices, and the past in the present. Editor(s): Smith L, Wetherell M, Campbell G. 213-229. Routledge, Abington, Eng.
The chapter demonstrates the value of museum exhibitions for providing embodied learning opportun... more The chapter demonstrates the value of museum exhibitions for providing embodied learning opportunities aimed at developing critical capacities and, at the same time, to demonstrate the central role of affect in this learning practice.
“Xenophobia: Museums, Refugees and Fear of the Other”.
In Simon Knell (ed.) The Contemporary Museum: Shaping Museums for the Global Now. Routledge, London., 2018
“Curating Relations between 'Us and Them': The Changing Role of Migration Museums in Australia”
Philipp Schorch and Conal McCarthy (eds.), Curatopia: Museums and the Future of Curatorship. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2018
“Beyond sentimentality and glorification: using a history of emotions to deal with the horror of war”
in Danielle Drozdzewski, Sarah De Nardi and Emma Waterton (eds.) Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict, Routledge, London, pp.205-220., 2016
1. Witcomb, A (2017). “O esforço de pertencer: A necessidade de aprender a sentir e a ouvir o testemunho dos retornados” in Elsa Peralta, Bruno Góis e Joana Oliveira, Retornar-Traços Memória do Fim do Império, Ediçoes 70, Lisboa, pp. 310-318., 2017
1. Witcomb, A (2017). “O esforço de pertencer: A necessidade de aprender a sentir e a ouvir o testemunho dos retornados” in Elsa Peralta, Bruno Góis e Joana Oliveira, Retornar-Traços Memória do Fim do Império, Ediçoes 70, Lisboa, pp. 310-318., 2017
This essay was published as:
1. Witcomb, A (2017). “O esforço de pertencer: A necessidade de apre... more This essay was published as:
1. Witcomb, A (2017). “O esforço de pertencer: A necessidade de aprender a sentir e a ouvir o testemunho dos retornados” in Elsa Peralta, Bruno Góis e Joana Oliveira, Retornar-Traços Memória do Fim do Império, Ediçoes 70, Lisboa, pp. 310-318.
It deals with the role of material culture in giving testimony to experiences of migration, displacement and belonging as well as in exploring the concept of home.
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The Thai-Burma Railway: asymetrical and transnational memories in Christina Twomey and Ernest Koh (eds.) The Pacific War: Aftermanths, remembrance and culture
A reading of the Forest Gallery, Melbourne Museum.
The Materiality of Virtual Technologies: A New Approach to Thinking about the Impact of Multimedia in Museums
A Critical Discourse, 2007
Publikationsansicht. 55231862. The materiality of virtual technologies : a new approach to thinki... more Publikationsansicht. 55231862. The materiality of virtual technologies : a new approach to thinking about the impact of multimedia in museums (2007). Witcomb, Andrea. Details der Publikation. Download, http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30006852. Herausgeber, MIT Press. ...
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 2013
If much of the new museology that developed in the 1990s could be described as informed by a poli... more If much of the new museology that developed in the 1990s could be described as informed by a politics of identity which stressed the importance of developing museological practices and their theorization in ways that were attentive to issues of representation and access Karp and Lavine 1991;, the development of what Sharon Macdonald (2006) calls the "second wave" of museum studies in the 2000s moved toward including another set of concerns. 1 As well as valuing a connection with the world of practice, these concerns had to do with allowing a space for the analysis of the poetics as well as the politics of museum work. A considerable proportion of our critical gaze on museum practices has become focused on the ways in which exhibitions are increasingly concerned with reinventing the relationship between visitors and the subjects of the narratives the museum is representing rather than with continuing to identify the ways in which they replay hegemonic discourses and representations. Much of this reflects a revisionist agenda on the part of museums themselves, aimed at producing a museological practice that intervenes in current social and political debates in ways that go beyond a simplistic celebration and reinforcement of existing identities. In the process, traditional power relations between subject and object are being questioned. Much of this practice and its accompanying discussion, occur around museums of anthropology as they seek to engage with and overcome the legacy of colonialism
A Companion to Museum Studies, 2006
Out of the Dark the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust, 2010
Tensions between world heritage and local values : the case of Fremantle prison (Australia)
Community Development Through World Heritage World Heritage Papers 31, 2012
Museum Materialities Objects Engagements Interpretations, 2010
Message, K and Witcomb, A. 2015, 'Museum Theory: An Expanded Field ', in K. Message and A. Witcomb eds, Museum Theory: An Expanded Field, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA, and Oxford, UK, pp.xxxv-lxiii. This chapter presents a theoretical framework and justification for the volume's broader aim of d... more This chapter presents a theoretical framework and justification for the volume's broader aim of devising and showcasing critical perspectives on the museum (as an institution) and on museums (as a series of individual specificities and contingencies) from a range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. We approach this task from the proposition that museum theory cannot be divorced from museum practice, arguing that museums are best understood as sites of “conjuncture” where different disciplines, theoretical approaches, and practices meet. Our starting point is Nicholas Thomas's argument that museums can be understood as a method which is itself generative of theory rather than simply as a site on which to perform theoretical models of analysis. We build on this approach by analyzing the ways in which contributors to this volume have generated new forms of knowledge using museums to think with. Among these approaches are the moves beyond governmentality paradigms toward an understanding of the nondiscursive, affective functions of museums; and a recognition of the role of museums in the production of reflexive forms of knowledge and citizenship formation, as well their activist role in society. We argue, in the final instance, that the field of museums provides an expanded field of vision for those of us interested in following particular theoretical debates, but that it does so precisely because this field is constituted through a series of methodological practices that have and continue to be key to the ways in which disciplines are shaped, public space is understood and produced, subjectivities are shaped, and relations between peoples are enabled. If there was ever any doubt as to the contributions of museums to the formation of culture or their relevance to innovation in both theory and disciplinary practices, we hope our collection goes a long way to demonstrating the value of thinking otherwise.
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Book Chapters by Andrea Witcomb
1. Witcomb, A (2017). “O esforço de pertencer: A necessidade de aprender a sentir e a ouvir o testemunho dos retornados” in Elsa Peralta, Bruno Góis e Joana Oliveira, Retornar-Traços Memória do Fim do Império, Ediçoes 70, Lisboa, pp. 310-318.
It deals with the role of material culture in giving testimony to experiences of migration, displacement and belonging as well as in exploring the concept of home.