Museums and the Representation of War

Winter, Jay

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“…Seals found that women tend to use embodied capital first to establish themselves within a conversation, whereas men tend to use institutional capital. We might then relate this not to biological differences in how we deploy knowledge or mnemonic capital but rather to the daily mnemonic impoverishment that women experience as a result of mnemonic institutions that routinely marginalize women’s roles (Winter, 2012: 162). Added to the absence of mnemonic capital of women’s pasts and lives in journalism, in literature, in education systems worldwide, then it is hardly surprising that such institutional mnemonic poverty means women use embodied capital first to establish ourselves in conversation.…”

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The female memory factory: How the gendered labour of memory creates mnemonic capital

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2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Within feminist memory studies the economy has largely been overlooked, despite the fact that the economic analysis of culture and society has long featured in research on women and gender. This article addresses that gap, arguing that the global economy matters in understanding the gender of memory and memories of gender. It models the conceptual basis for the consideration of a feminist economic analysis of memory that can reveal the dimensions of mnemonic transformation, accumulation and exchange through gendered mnemonic labour, gendered mnemonic value and gendered mnemonic capital. The article then applies the concepts of mnemonic labour and mnemonic capital in more detail through a case study of memory activism examining the work of the Parragirls and the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project (PFFP) in Sydney, Australia. The campaigns have worked to recognize the memory and history of the longest continuous site of female containment in Australia built to support the British invasion. The site in Parramatta, which dates from the 1820s, was a female factory for transported convicts, a female prison, an asylum for women and girls, an orphanage and then Parramatta Girls Home. The Burramattagal People of Darug Clan are the Traditional Owners of the land and the site is of practical and spiritual importance to indigenous women. This local struggle is representative of a global economic system of gendered institutionalized violence and forgetting, The analysis shows how the mnemonic labour of women survivors accumulates as mnemonic value that is then transformed into institutional mnemonic capital. Focusing on how mnemonic labour creates lasting mnemonic capital reveals the gendered dimensions of memory which are critical for ongoing memory work.

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Section: Mnemonic Capitalmentioning

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The female memory factory: How the gendered labour of memory creates mnemonic capital

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2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…Winter (2012) has pointed to a gender imbalance in the representations of war on offer in museums -and presumably heritage sites also -noting that the everyday experiences of women in war are glossed over or left out completely. Our respondents talked often about "the men", and on occasion noted also the hard work and sacrifices of "the women"; although mostly through the familiar tropes of "the wives" and "the mothers".…”

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Unthinking remembrance?Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Redand the significance of centenaries

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Sayner

2018

Cultural Trends

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“…Raths goes on to argue that efforts to display the tanks differently, to encourage multiple interpretations, is something that the visitors would have to have forced upon them, as many are happy to enjoy the technicality of the object without considering what it did. Winter (2013) also suggested that those who develop fascinations with weapons dislike the display of their violent effects, as this spoils their idealized view of these supposedly thrilling objects.…”

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“…An early example of this position was the anti-war museum set up by Ernst Friedrich in Berlin, in 1924. His method of displaying brutal images of violence was an intentional divergence from the selective, censored approach of official war museums (Winter, 2013).…”

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Objects and the Representation of War in Military Museums

Scott

2015

Mus. Soc.

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This paper reflects upon the ability of a military museum to create diverse representations of war, through the use and interpretation of its objects. In this type of museum, war can be presented as being both a positive or negative phenomenon. For many people, a visit to a military history museum is the one of the main ways that a person will learn about war, aside from its portrayal in education, the media or in film and television. These museums have great influence in representing war. This is particularly true in Northern Ireland where representations of conflict have the potential to widen the gap between communities in an already divided society.How objects affect the creation of representations of war can depend on which types of object are displayed, in what context they are displayed, their physical condition and also the way in which the objects are connected with people or individuals (Saunders, 2004;Dudley 2010). This paper examines three approaches to displaying objects in the regimental museums of Northern Ireland. These have been termed the celebratory approach, the sanitized approach and the realistic approach.

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Museums and the Representation of War

Cited by 18 publications

References 3 publications

The female memory factory: How the gendered labour of memory creates mnemonic capital

The female memory factory: How the gendered labour of memory creates mnemonic capital

Unthinking remembrance?Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Redand the significance of centenaries

Objects and the Representation of War in Military Museums

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