Overview
- Investigates how the representation of foreigners in museum exhibitions on immigrant history is seen by the audience, and what it reveals about the national self
- Sheds light on how museum staff, visitors, academics, journalists and politicians publicly exhibit images of immigrants
- Combines conversation analysis, discourse analysis and ethnography to analyse large amounts of exhibition data in different institutional contexts
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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“The book presents a detailed study of exhibits … . Porsché takes a look at the front-, back- and offstage of knowledge production. … The book’s ethnographic approach to communication is particularly valuable because it includes the analysis of video-recordings of interaction sequences. Field notes and expert knowledge from insiders shed further light … .” (Ralf Kruber, Slovo a slovesnost, Vol. 83 (1), 2022)
“A great strength of the book is its interdisciplinary use of methodological tools from (multimodal) conversation analysis, ethnography and sociology … . gives the readers a full picture of how museum exhibitions are staged and perceived. … Public Representations of Immigrants in Museums is an original book that brings museum studies and how knowledge is constructed in them, to the heart of discourse and interaction studies, paving the way for more epistemological and methodological synergies of the kind.” (Argyro Kantara, Discourse & Society, Vol. 30 (5), September, 2019)
“What do people do in museums? Surrounded by exhibits, speaking to tour-guides or reading a catalogue and press reviews, they engage in meaning-making practices. This study of a French-German exhibition makes a powerful case for combining interaction analysis and ethnography in order to carry out empirically and theoretically insightful research on public discourse – a must-read for students and researchers interested in qualitative approaches to Discourse Studies.”(Professor Johannes Angermuller, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK)“Through three museums presenting the same-but-very-different exhibition on immigration, Yannik Porsché guides us on a fascinating journey from Paris to Berlin. The museum institutions not only produce representations of immigrants, but also tell us a great deal about those who do the representing. This study shows how, as epistemic spaces, museums orchestrate and discipline discourse about their objects. Moreover, it reveals how,as interactional spaces, they – sometimes unwillingly – enable other voices and bodies to speak through and in them. An important book!” (Professor Lorenza Mondada, Chair of general linguistics and French linguistics, University of Basel, Switzerland)
“In this highly original comparative study, Yannik Porsché opens a mysterious black box: that of the institutional epistemics of how museums construct knowledge. The study is a much needed corrective to our understanding of museums as a neutral storage space for collective memories—and a fantastic extension of the notion of epistemic cultures to the productive space at the intersection of the museum, the media and science.” (Professor Karin Knorr Cetina, Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, USA)
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Book Title: Public Representations of Immigrants in Museums
Book Subtitle: Exhibition and Exposure in France and Germany
Authors: Yannik Porsché
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66357-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66356-2Published: 22 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88223-9Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66357-9Published: 13 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 401
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociology of Culture, Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Global/International Culture