The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture 2007
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996744.ch19
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Museums and the Constitution of Culture

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“…Theorists have examined the museum as ‘sites of contestation’ as influenced by a number of social changes (Dubin, 1999; Marontate, 2005). The controversies over the representations of the past and different histories are predominantly understood as the results of tension due to the challenges from social movements who make demands regarding the representation of ‘their culture’ and relativistic claims which threatened to dethrone claims to objective knowledge.…”
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“…Theorists have examined the museum as ‘sites of contestation’ as influenced by a number of social changes (Dubin, 1999; Marontate, 2005). The controversies over the representations of the past and different histories are predominantly understood as the results of tension due to the challenges from social movements who make demands regarding the representation of ‘their culture’ and relativistic claims which threatened to dethrone claims to objective knowledge.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This very particular and limited understanding of social relations in the industry prefigures a particular energy future through the recurrent trope of 'technoutopianism' that underlies it (Szeman, 2007). That such a narrative line dominates in this exhibition is hardly surprising, given the list of its sponsors, who were drawn almost exclusively from the oil industry.3 From the perspective of a critical encounter with social relations, both cultural sociology and visual culture studies offer reflection on corporate cultural sponsorship (Bourdieu and Haacke, 1995;Marontate, 2005;Scholette, 2010), showing, for example, how museums are under increasing pressure to tailor exhibitions to the requirements of external funders (Alexander, 1996;Rectanus, 2002). The particular instance of oil companies engaging in cultural sponsorship is a topic that has been highlighted and investigated in its own right.…”
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“…'Museology', Janet Wolff (2010: 6) writes, 'is one example of a new area … which has produced subtle and illuminating studies of the interplay of art object, institution, and social and political processes'. And indeed, museums are objects of interest both to visual culture studies (for example, see Bennett, 1988;Hooper-Greenhill, 2000) and to cultural sociology (for example, see Fyfe, 2006;Marontate, 2005). In line with 'boundary object' theory (Star and Griesemer, 1989), the 'Energy Exploration' exhibition, and the objects around which it is constructed, can be conceived as entities that have different meanings in each discipline, but which are common enough to be recognizable in each.…”
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