Authors:	Kathke, Torsten Tomann, Juliane Uhlig, Mirko
Title:	Curation as a social practice : counter-narratives in public space
Online publication date:	27-Apr-2023
Year of first publication:	2022
Language:	english
Abstract:	The term “curation” has taken on a host of meanings beyond the museum context. While there are marked differences between its meanings – including the specific act of exhibition-making as well as the act of keeping and tending to an existing collection in a museum – we here specifically foreground curation as a social process of selecting and negotiating various forms of (embodied) performances in public, transcending institutionalized contexts such as museums. We argue that, when combined with the idea of counter-narratives, the concept of curation can elucidate aspects of social practices and open up a useful heuristic for the analysis of representations and performances in the public sphere. Since these practices make extensive use of imaginaries of the past, this approach is suitable for combining perspectives from public history and anthropology.
DDC:	300 Sozialwissenschaften 300 Social sciences 900 Geschichte 900 Geography and history
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 07 Geschichts- u. Kulturwissensch.
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8812
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	International Public History 5 2
Pages or article number:	71 79
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publisher place:	Berlin
Issue date:	2022
ISSN:	2567-1111
Publisher DOI:	10.1515/iph-2022-2046
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-H