Description
Book SynopsisMuseums and Nationalism in Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey draws attention to museums as political productions of the nation-state and shows how they can be shaped by the political forces that rule a country.
Drawing on case studies and interviews from Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey, the book investigates how the past has been exploited to serve the interests of nationalism in the twenty-first century, and how museums themselves are exploited to serve nationalist ideologies. Posocco argues that, in a world of nation-states where nationalism is the dominant ideology, all museums are national museums, even when they aren''t. In this perspective, they can (and do, in the case studies under analysis in this book) become the cultural offshoots of political wars, places where the national past is contested, rewritten, and sometimes even created from scratch, and finally exhibited. Paying particular attention to the decision-making and economic aspects of the
Table of Contents
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Nationalism’s Way Through the Museum; Chapter 1. Nationalism and the Museum; Chapter 2. Methodology; Chapter 3. Nationalism and Museums in Hungary; Chapter 4. Nationalism and Museums in Turkey; Chapter 5. Nationalism and Museums in Croatia; Chapter 6. Final Thoughts; Bibliography; Index.
