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Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam

Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam

Were, Graeme

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia

General ReferenceGeneral ArtSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1032187905
ISBN13: 9781032187907
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections and social repair in contemporary Vietnam.

Drawing on fieldwork in a range of museums in the country, alongside interviews with museum workers and stakeholders, and analyses of museum exhibitions, the book explores how museums help ordinary people overcome loss suffered during conflict. Focusing on key objects in museum collections that elicit strong emotions or feelings, Graeme Were examines their relationship to social repair and transformation, in order to understand what mobilises survivors, families and communities to recover and re-evaluate memory and give prominence to grievances and loss or future hopes and aspirations. Arguing that nationalist frameworks no longer adequately account for the diverse agendas of Vietnamese museums, this book brings into question the dynamics between history and memory; the capacity of the museum to repair injury, loss or suffering; and the limits of historical memory beyond the control of a one-party state.

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