Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2018-19/Imperialism in Museums

IDEAS:

- Imperialism in museums/ how imperialism becomes manifest in institutions? : How is imperialism expressed? (Display, curation of art/ objects and information) - Experience of the visitor to the museum --> Case study candidates: British Museum, Horniman Museum, Pitt Rivers

- The museum as an educational institution and how it affects our outlook/ perspective on different topics or cultures, the politics of display

- Categorisation of objects/ art (here also: objects vs art, what qualifies as a work of art vs an object): what is the difference between the ethnographic and the art museum and more importantly who defines / decides this?

- History of Art question/ perspective: What warrants display in the f.ex. National Gallery vs BM and how does this affect the way we think about something? - The art historical Canon - Superiority of a nation/ culture being asserted through the institution? Us vs the Other (possibly see Said on this?)

- Issues of ownership: Should the Elgin Marbles be returned? Other examples?

-https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/octo.2007.120.1.3 -https://search.proquest.com/docview/93069543?accountid=1451       Some papers regarding a possible case study to explore Olliedixon148 (discuss • contribs) 15:16, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

-We discussed the possibility of incorporating more disciplines eg using environmental psychology to understand how imperialist ideas in museums become manifest in people's minds or using economics to discuss the imperialist economic benefit of museums. Olliedixon148 (discuss • contribs) 14:33, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Tmlweigel (discuss • contribs) 14:25, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Defining imperialism: -flourished within Marxist theory during 20th century (Harrison, 2005, 81) -persists because it provides a critical basis into a global system that is uneven in its distribution of wealth, property and power (Harrison, 2005, 82) - widely elastic term (Harrison, 2005, 83) - Lenin: the final stage of capitalism, a system of states in competition that dominate other states for capital -Luxemburg: builds on top of that and highlights the term's tendency towards violence and expropriation -dependency theory: suggests that former sovereignty isn't key for imperialism, due to the massive conglomerations of capital in the West I added some definitions of imperialism based on marxist theory. Teobogatu (discuss • contribs) 11:01, 21 November 2018 (UTC)