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ID172341
Title ProperIntimate international relations of museums
Other Title Informationa method
LanguageENG
AuthorTidy, Joanna ;  Turner, Joe
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article proposes a method for analysing museums as sites of intimate and colonially-produced international relations. Beginning with fieldwork that approaches museums as sites through which people intimately encounter the objects, institutions, selves and others of international politics, we explore how intimacy can be ‘read’ as socio-sexual affect, scales and proximities, and colonial differentiation/racialisation. The article is grounded in fieldwork at the British Army Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, UK, conceptualised as an assembly of, following Stoler, imperial debris. We explore how certain museum exhibits work as intimate ‘organising objects’, locating the museum collection, and those who visit or are excluded from it, within the intimate circulations of imperial and colonial violence. The article makes two core contributions: first, responding to recent literature in IR on museums we propose a framework for understanding how museums and exhibitions function as everyday sites of coloniality and racialisation. Second, we propose that approaching intimacy as a method is instructive for fieldwork in international relations (including museums) which takes the colonial constitution of the global/local seriously.
`In' analytical NoteMillennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 48, No.2; Jan 2020: p.117–142
Journal SourceMillennium: Journal of International Studies 2020-03 48, 2
Key WordsWar ;  Empire ;  Fieldwork ;  Intimacy ;  Method ;  Museums ;  Imperialism ;  Coloniality