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

拟议的博士学位的目的是研究博物馆，民族主义和身份之间的关系，通过takingCyprus作为比较研究的案例。它建议探索博物馆和身份之间的关系，无论是作为本地化的政治进程，还是作为塞浦路斯分裂殖民主义的制度残余。因此，它的目的不仅是研究他们的历史和制度变化，但也看到博物馆作为空间的潜力，通过非殖民地的透镜。因此，总体目标有两个方面：1）相对地揭示南北博物馆内冲突的历史和身份的使用和建设，2）研究博物馆从非殖民透镜看的启示，这种透镜不把当前塞浦路斯的身份本质化为严格和冲突的二元。博士将打算产生上述目标，并通过以下研究问题在岛上的各种博物馆叙事中创建一个对话路径：博物馆作为政治行为者和知识生产者在岛上的身份二元内的过去和现在的角色到底是什么？此外，他们如何通过更具包容性的历史和考古学叙述，帮助塞浦路斯的和平建设进程，使他们的观点非殖民化，与不同的受众接触？通过塞浦路斯的情况下，研究从事与disessentialising身份和包容性的代表做法更大的问题。

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.