Decolonising Representation and Identity: Museums as political actors in post-conflict Cyprus.

去殖民化代表和身份：博物馆作为冲突后塞浦路斯的政治参与者。

• 批准号: 2129818
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2129818
• 关键词: Decolonising; Representation; Identity; Museums; political

The aim of the proposed PhD is to examine the relationship between museums, nationalism, and identity by takingCyprus as a case for comparative research. It proposes to explore the relation between museums and identity both aslocalised political processes, and as institutional remnants of a divisive colonialism within Cyprus. As such it aims to notonly research their histories and institutional changes, but to also see the museums as spaces of potentiality through adecolonial lens. The overall goal is thereby twofold: 1) to unravel the uses and constructions of conflicting history andidentity within the museums in the North and South comparatively and 2) to research the affordances of museums whenseen from a decolonial lens that does not essentialise the current Cypriot identities as a strict and conflicting binary. ThePhd will intend to generate the above goals and create a dialogical path within the varied museum narratives in the islandthrough the following research questions: What exactly is the past and current role of museums as political actors and asknowledge producers within the binary of identities in the island? And, how can they decolonise their perspectives toengage with a diverse audience through more inclusive narratives of history and archeology that will assist the peacebuilding processes in Cyprus? Through the Cyprus case, the research engages with the larger questions ofdisessentialising identity and inclusive representation practices.

拟议的博士学位的目的是通过以塞浦路斯为例进行比较研究，来检验博物馆、民族主义和身份之间的关系。它建议探索博物馆和身份之间的关系，既是本地化的政治进程，也是塞浦路斯内部分裂的殖民主义的制度残余物。因此，它的目的不仅是研究他们的历史和制度变化，而且还通过非殖民镜头将博物馆视为具有潜力的空间。因此，总体目标有两个：1)比较地解开北方和南方博物馆内相互冲突的历史和文化的使用和结构；2)从非殖民主义的角度研究博物馆的可承受性，而不是把塞浦路斯人目前的身份定性为严格而相互冲突的二元身份。博士将打算产生上述目标，并通过以下研究问题在岛上不同的博物馆叙事中创建一条对话之路：博物馆在岛上身份的二元中作为政治参与者和知识生产者的过去和现在到底是什么角色？而且，他们如何将自己的观点非殖民化，通过更具包容性的历史和考古叙述来接触不同的受众，这将有助于塞浦路斯的建设和平进程？通过塞浦路斯的案例，这项研究涉及到更大的问题，即身份认同的无关紧要和包容性代表做法。