Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites
Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites
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民族、种族和情感：国家遗产地的感官和情感
DOI：
10.1068/a4346
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2010
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D. Tolia‐Kelly
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M. Crang;D. Tolia‐Kelly
本文取材于讨论遗产与国家认同关系的大量文献。许多工作都侧重于通过遗产机构对过去进行象征性的构建，但这样做往往会淡化遗产地的情感体验。在本文中，我们认为，对遗产的感受体验和情感组织往往同样重要，而且这些都具有种族化的模式。因此，我们着眼于促进公民包容的尝试，并认为它们不仅需要解决公民开放问题，还需要解决排斥和恐惧问题。我们以两个经典遗产地为例来说明这些问题。首先，大英博物馆被选为一个城市国家机构，传统上人们认为它是在毫无动机地、以教学方式说话。博物馆从世界各地收集文物并将其带到伦敦的历史与侨民社区对藏品的感受有关，重点是海洋画廊。第二个例子是英国湖区，被选为乡村国家公园，被认为可以调动更多本能的情感反应，与民族情感紧密相连，但因种族排他性而引起关注。
This paper picks up from extensive literatures that have addressed the relationship of heritage to national identity. Much work focuses upon the symbolic construction of the past through heritage institutions, but in so doing it tends to underplay the affective experience of heritage sites. In this paper we argue that it is the felt experience and the organisation of sensibilities towards heritage which are often as important, and that these have racialised modalities. We thus look at attempts to foster civic inclusion and argue that they need to work through not just civic openness but felt exclusions and fears. We take two canonical heritage sites to exemplify these issues. First, the British Museum was chosen as an urban national institution that is conventionally seen speaking in an unemotive, pedagogical register. The history of the museum as collecting artefacts from around the world and bringing them to London is related to diasporic communities' feelings about the collections, focusing on the Oceanic gallery. The second exemplar is the English Lake District, chosen as a rural national park that is seen to mobilise more visceral affective responses, which is deeply bound up with national sensibilities but has attracted attention for racial exclusivity.