Kerstin Poehls is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg in Germany. She completed her PhD in European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin and has been Visiting Scholar at the University of the Aegean in Mytilini/Greece in 2011. Her books include MuseumX (2011, edited with F. Bose et al.) and Sammeln on collecting as an everyday, museal and academic practice (2015, edited with Stephan Faust).

Preface

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Introduction: Exhibiting Europe? Europeanisation as Cultural Practice

Chapter 1. Musealising Europe: Compensation, Negotiation, and the Conquest of the Future
Chapter 2. Governing Europe: State Institutions and European Cultural and Museum Policy
Chapter 3. Networking Europe: Societal Actors in the Europeanisation of the Museum Field
Chapter 4. Collecting Europe: Strategies and Challenges in Transnational Collection Practice
Chapter 5. Narrating Europe: The Story and Stories of European Integration
Chapter 6. Crossing Europe: Migration and Mobility in Museal Spaces

Conclusion: Exhibiting Europe: The Practice of Europeanisation in Museums

Interviews

Museums and Exhibitions

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