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January 2006
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'Imagined Communities' examines the creation & function of the 'imagined communities' of nationality & the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism & printing & the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.
... By assembling museum collections around themes of transcontinental mobilities, peace and cooperation, while downplaying histories of violence, invasion and trafficking that contradict China's BRI rhetoric that espouses peaceful co-existence and harmonious exchanges, Winter (2019) argues that museums and heritage institutions can be mobilised to promote Silk Road diplomacy. Winter's (2019) proposition that museum collections and narratives can be mobilised to promote Silk Road heritage diplomacy sits within the extant literature that museums can shape knowledge production and collective values of society by authenticating and legitimating certain dominant narratives (Anderson 1991;Bennett 1995;Luke 2002;McLean 2005;Knell 2010). However, scholars have warned against overstating the influence of discourses on the formation of museums due to practical constraints in terms of the availability of funding and expertise, as well as local appropriation of these discourses, and this is especially so in the context of colonial museums (MacKenzie 2009;Bhatti 2012;Longair and McAleer 2012;Mathur and Singh 2015). ...
January 2006
