The Aftermaths of Participation
The Aftermaths of Participation How do participatory museum projects with forced migrants impact both the museum and the participants? Based on interviews with museum practitioners, facilitators and…
Specifikacia The Aftermaths of Participation
The Aftermaths of Participation
How do participatory museum projects with forced migrants impact both the museum and the participants? Based on interviews with museum practitioners, facilitators and project participants, Susanne Boersma brings together unique insights into museum work with forced migrants. What happens during these projects and what is left of them afterwards?
Outlining the diverging objectives, experiences and outcomes of participatory projects, she suggests how these might be united in Her study of participatory projects in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK reveals museums' limiting infrastructures, the shortcomings of their ethical frameworks, and the problems of addressing forced migrants as 'communities'.