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Dell'Aquia, Stephanie (2020)

Porto M’s Aesthetic Choices and their Political Meanings: A Non-traditional Museum and the Fight Against Forms of Domination

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

The investigation of Porto M, a non-traditional museum on the island of Lampedusa, analyses the deeper motives behind the curators’ aesthetic choices and their political meanings. This non-conventional museum is a site of memory, politics, and resistance: It performs memory and political practices to denounce Western forms of domination and abuse of power, such as (neo)colonialism, (neo)imperialism and exploitation of the territory. Porto M creates a memory that shed light on issues related to migration raises awareness on migrants' and Lampedusani's difficulties on the island and also actively opposes the militarisation of Lampedusa. 

Porto M

non-traditional museums

aesthetics

memory

politics

Author

Dell'Aquia, Stephanie

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Culture and Politics

Supervisors

Valk, John-Harmen

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en