Matters of Belonging: Ethnographic Museums in a. Modest, Thomas, Prlic, Augu**

Sidestone Press

Matters of BelongingEthnographic Museums in a Changing Europe\nAuthor(s): Wayne Modest, Nicholas Thomas, Doris Prli?, Claudia Augustat\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Sidestone Press, Netherlands\nImprint: Sidestone Press\nISBN-13: 9789088907777, 978-9088907777\nSynopsis\nMatters of Belonging foregrounds critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. The book emerges from the EU-funded project SWICH (Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage) that places ethnographic museums at the centre of ongoing debates about Europes shifting polity and questions around heritage, citizenship and belonging. Addressing diverse political climates and citizenship regimes, legal frameworks and colonial/migratory histories, the articles seek to question the role of ethnographic and world cultures museums within contemporary negotiations of ho.