Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture by Gnl Bozo?lu - 9781032088914

Taylor & Francis

Museums, Emotion, and Memory CultureThe Politics of the Past in Turkey\nAuthor(s): Gnl Bozo?lu\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032088914, 978-1032088914\nSynopsis\nMuseums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory studies, anthropology and studies of emotion. Exploring the meanings and politics of memory contests in Turkey, a site for complex negotiations of identity, the book asks what it means for museums to charge the past with political agendas through spectacular, emotive representations.\n\nProviding an in-depth examination of emotional practice in two Turkish museums that present contrasting representations of the national past, the book analyses relationships between memory, governmentality, identity, and emotion. The museums discussed celebrate Ottoman and Early Republican pasts, linking to geo- a.