A partire dal campo della museologia, il progetto si muove in chiave multidisciplinare e intende affrontare alcuni interrogativi di fondo legati alla rappresentazione della classe operaia, tra multiculturalismo e identità di classe.
In particolare, i temi di ricerca suggeriti sono:
- representations of the contemporary/historical working and poverty classes in non-specialist, mainstream museums (either in terms of presence or absence)
- critical analysis of museums that romanticise the working class and/or fetishise hardship
- public programmes/community engagement/activism
- endangered skills and trades
- labour museums
- workhouse/poorhouse museums
- prison museums
- foundling/orphanage museums
- house museums and narratives of domestic labourers/servants
- trade union collections
- museum responses to the seduction of the working class by far-right politics
- the working class and museum employment – what are the industrial issues? Observations/analysis re organisational psychology? Workplace culture? Obstacles to employment?
La deadline per l'inivio di proposte, all'indirizzo mail: adele.chynoweth@anu.edu.au, è prevista per il 28 giugno 2019.