Khetrapal, Neha (2024) Contemporary Indian museums as “feminist” spaces of care. Museums & Social Issues. ISSN 1559-6893 (In Press)
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Abstract
Discussions about renegotiating the museum space have tended – thus far – to come from the Global North. By applying a feminist framework to examine the exhibits of three different Indian museums, I extend the purview of such discussions to the Global South. Until recently, women and their stories – along with those of other marginalized groups – have largely remained underrepresented in the Indian museum space. In the latter part of the twentieth century, however, Indian curatorial activism helped to subvert hegemonic museological narratives – embodied in a non-personalized curatorial approach. An underlying characteristic that connects the contemporary museums, on the other hand, is a sustained curatorial focus on “silenced” stories, articulated via narratives or materialized through object displays. By evoking the feminist framework, I emphasize curatorial care – whether for past stories, people, sociopolitical issues, the future, or museological displays - as the overarching feature of a remedied Indian museum space.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Feminist scholarship | Care ethics | Amritsar | Indian partition | Bhopal | Amedabad |
Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Museology Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) |
JGU School/Centre: | Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences |
Depositing User: | Subhajit Bhattacharjee |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2024 08:04 |
Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2024 17:16 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15596893.2024.2386352 |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/8214 |
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