Curating the colonial: the afterlives of museums, heritage sites and great houses in Jamaica and England.

策划殖民地：牙买加和英国的博物馆、遗产地和伟大房屋的来世。

• 批准号: 2880776
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2880776
• 关键词: Curating; colonial; afterlives; museums; heritage

In tourist discourse, Jamaica features as a natural, tropical paradise rather than as a culturally significant space (Thompson,2006). Its material artefacts are largely absent from England's extensive imperial museum collections (Barringer and Modest, 2018). Where present, Caribbean collections are small and focus on a narrow representation of its heritage, namely natural history in the form of botanical specimens and ethnographic collections from the island's indigenous past. This orientation reflects the scientific pursuits of colonial figures such as Hans Sloane and plantation owners such as Thomas Thistlewood (Modest,2012; Sloane,1707,1725; Fowler,2020). Jamaican objects and cultural practices, whilst evident in Jamaica's National museums, are scarce in equivalent English heritage collections. This omission has profound cultural consequences. More fully represented heritage enables collective cultural memory and enhances cultural and civic identity (Hall, 1999). However, in the two decades since Hall's foundational work, the 'mind's-eye' visualisation of British heritage remains largely immutable and dominated by white colonial perspectives (Ashley and Stone,2023). This research investigates how heritage collections from the colonial era are perceived and negotiated by those who identify as Jamaican both on the island and among the Jamaican diaspora in England. I will also draw on literature which explores the absence and presentation of Caribbean artefacts from writers including Andrea Levy and Louise Bennett, whose work provides a creative-critical commentary on curatorial practices.

在旅游话语中，牙买加被视为一个自然的热带天堂，而不是一个具有重要文化意义的空间（Thompson，2006）。英国大量的帝国博物馆藏品中基本上没有其实物文物（Barringer 和 Modest，2018）。目前，加勒比地区的藏品规模较小，且集中于其遗产的狭隘代表性，即植物标本形式的自然历史和来自该岛土著过去的人种学收藏。这种取向反映了汉斯·斯隆（Hans Sloane）等殖民人物和托马斯·提斯特伍德（Thomas Thistlewood）等种植园主的科学追求（Modest，2012；Sloane，1707,1725；Fowler，2020）。牙买加的物品和文化习俗虽然在牙买加国家博物馆中很明显，但在同等的英国遗产收藏中却很少见。这种遗漏产生了深远的文化后果。更充分地体现遗产可以实现集体文化记忆并增强文化和公民身份（Hall，1999）。然而，自霍尔的基础性工作以来的二十年里，英国遗产的“心灵之眼”可视化在很大程度上仍然是一成不变的，并由白人殖民观点主导（阿什利和斯通，2023）。这项研究调查了岛上和英国牙买加侨民中的牙买加人如何看待和协商殖民时代的遗产收藏。我还将借鉴包括安德里亚·利维（Andrea Levy）和路易丝·贝内特（Louise Bennett）在内的作家探讨加勒比海文物的缺席和呈现的文献，他们的作品对策展实践提供了创造性的批判性评论。