Canadians and Their Pasts: An Exploration in Historical Consciousness

Conrad, Margaret; Létourneau, Jocelyn; Northrup, David

doi:10.1525/tph.2009.31.1.15

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“…According to Nora (1989), presence is 'a reference point for understanding the past and for imagining of future' (Conrad, Létourneau, and Northrup 2009, 19 driven by the everyday experiences of discrimination and othering she was facing as a veiled Muslim woman in Norway, and to which she referred in an interview. Apart from being an important axel of identity building, Islam was for many 'a window on the past' (Conrad, Létourneau, and Northrup 2009), e.g. through engaging with the biographies of noble men, reflecting therefore the findings of Rosenzweig and Thelen (1998) gender and marital status, compared to the one she has in Norwegian society.…”

Section: Historical Consciousness and Inherited Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities

Nikielska-Sekuła

2019

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities This paper problematises the engagement with heritage of immigrants and their new-homeland-born children, bringing together heritage and migration studies. It discusses the use of ancestral heritage in group identity maintenance strategies, and sheds light on minorities' participation in the heritage of the dominant population. The paper investigates how the ancestral heritage of immigrant minorities has adjusted to the circumstances of the new homeland, and how the elements of heritage of the dominant population were fitted within the festivity routines of minority families. Therefore, it attempts to grasp the transformations of heritage occurring as a consequence of adjusting heritage practices to the new settings. To do so, it employs a notion of 'heritage in becoming', based on Ingold and Kurttila's (2000) concept of local traditional knowledge that refers to the situational and processual character of recreating inherited practices within the circumstances of the present. The paper proves that the boundary between minority and majority culture in the heritage practices of individuals is blurred, discussing the transformations the traditional heritages of nations undergo under the influence of migration. The author attempts to answer the question of whether these new qualities can be accepted as part of a so-called multicultural heritage of nations.

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Section: Historical Consciousness and Inherited Identitiesmentioning

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Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities

Nikielska-Sekuła

2019

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…This was due to 'the presence of artefacts and primary documents, the belief that museums were neutral and run by professionals, and the confidence resulting from using multiple sources of information.' 32 Second only to museums in trustworthiness, the survey respondents said, were fact-based historical books. This certainly helps account for why my conclusions were trusted, despite being a newcomer.…”

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Causing a Ruckus: Complicity and Performance in Stories of Port Moody

Hayes

2018

Public History Review

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his article is about the suicide of a small-town chief of police, which -according to some -did not actually happen. It is certain that Albert William Kruger, of Port Moody, British Columbia, died on 24 May 1960 after serving as chief of police since 1946. But I encountered three versions of the story of his death. First, that it was not suicide at all, but rather a heart attack that claimed his life while he was at home. Second, that it was indeed suicide, and he shot himself in the head in his home. Third, and most sensational of all, that he attempted to commit suicide by gunshot in his car, but that he failed and dragged himself to his home where he shortly thereafter died, having left a trail of blood behind him.T

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“…; Conrad et al . ) have underscored visitors as still trusting museums more than other media for encyclopaedic learning. This goes beyond the ability to distinguish between authored exhibitions, which offer the viewpoint of a group of professionals on a non‐Western topic, and exhibition projects which include the voice of source communities.…”

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Museums Without (Scholar‐)Curators: Exhibition–Making in Times of Managerial Curatorship

Viau-Courville

2016

Museum International

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Museum practice has undergone significant changes in recent decades, particularly since the advent of New Museology. One of these transformations has profoundly altered the work of exhibition making and curatorship. In a number of institutions, particularly in Francophone Canada, France, and Northern Europe, the ethnographic or disciplinary approach ensured by scholar‐curators has been progressively abandoned as exhibition making and other curatorial tasks have been taken over by professional project managers and administrators. This departure from traditional curatorship, which grew out of a desire to narrow the gap between museums and society, has slowly made community engagement and citizen participation into a central institutional objective. This change in museum priorities has significantly impacted the nature of museum management. One such impact has been the emergence of a professional non‐curatorial managerial class, a phenomenon that has received relatively little attention as an academia‐divorced practice. This paper draws from endeavours at the Muséee de la civilisation (Quebec City, Canada) to address managerial practices in exhibition making. Tracing the history of this museum, which is both the heir and instigator of the managerial‐based structures that emerged out of 1980s social museology, it highlights the limits, but also the many possibilities, of managerial‐based exhibition making. The paper analyses two participatory exhibitions inaugurated in 2015, one exclusively dedicated to contemporary dance, and the other to the cultural history of First Nations and Inuit communities in Quebec, and asks how knowledge was exchanged and meaning created in the exhibition space by sharing the curatorship between the communities and exhibition project managers. Notwithstanding the importance of the social scope of managerial models in exhibition‐making, the paper also highlights the importance of renewing links between research and exhibition making, particularly those that are better adapted to non‐academic community‐driven institutions.

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Canadians and Their Pasts: An Exploration in Historical Consciousness

Cited by 23 publications

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Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities

Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities

Causing a Ruckus: Complicity and Performance in Stories of Port Moody

Museums Without (Scholar‐)Curators: Exhibition–Making in Times of Managerial Curatorship

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