Kall eftir greinum. Museums in Contemporary Society: Contemporary Collecting, Communication and Social Engagement The aim of this special issue is to highlight museums’ engagement with contemporary society as a multifaceted theoretical and empirical area of enquiry for scholars as well as museum practitioners. On the one hand, museums are memory palaces retaining extensive collections and vast sets of accumulated professional knowledge. On the other hand, museums are highly sensitive to societal and cultural change. They are contemporary institutions situated in an interconnected, networked, increasingly post-national and uncertain world in the midst of perpetual change. Influences from transnational organisations such as ICOM, critical museology, as well as the pushes and pulls for Europeanisation that EU funding offers affect museums as much as national policies do. Thus there are many incentives for museums to engage in collecting contemporary items to record change or to become actively involved in current cultural and social issues by engaging in collaborative opportunities within and beyond the museum itself. The special issue calls for articles following these areas of inquiry: - Current collecting and de-accessioning practices and policies. - The effect of networked transnationalism on contemporary collecting, curating and audience work. - How notions of participatory culture questions the autonomy and authority of museum professions. - How museums deal with issues of racism and homophobia to engage with politically “transgressive” content, disputed histories, postcolonial relations and underrepresented communities in critical pedagogies, collecting and exhibiting practices. - Required professional skills and competences when museums turn into inclusive spaces for dialogue or even dissent for democratic ends. Deadline for article submissions is July 1 2014. We welcome articles in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or English. Articles should not extend 7 000 words, including an abstract of 300 words. The editors expect the authors to follow the guidelines for manuscripts, available at the journal’s website (nordiskmuseologi.org, English translations are under way). Contact: Guest editor Bodil Axelsson ([email protected]), chief editor Brita Brenna ([email protected]) or Eva Silvén ([email protected]).
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