| ID | 151740 |
| Title Proper | Doha’s cultural armature on display |
| Other Title Information | a response to Artifacts and Allegiances how Museums put the Nation and the World on Display |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Exell, Karen |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | After a brief discussion of the rapidly changing international museum world in Doha, this response piece engages with Peggy Levitt’s arguments around cultural armature and the role of museums in managing a city’s diversity, focusing on Doha, Qatar. Given the dominant migrant foreign population (88 per cent) and the careful protection of national citizenship in Qatar, the role of museums in managing diversity presents a situation that contrasts with older nation states: rather than encouraging inclusion, the museums in Qatar and the Arabian Peninsula states play a role in constructing and protecting a pure concept of national identity on behalf of a minority citizen population that deliberately fails to embrace any notion of diversity. This piece uses brief case studies to illustrate this process of exclusion, expanding Levitt’s original argument. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 24, No.1; Feb 2017: p.19-25 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2017-02 24, 1 |
| Key Words | National Identity ; Exclusion ; Diversity ; Doha ; Cultural Armature |