Multimedia Historical Parks and the Heritage-based “Regime of Truth” in Russia

Q2 Social Sciences
Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI:10.3384/cu.3975
Olga Zabalueva
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This article focuses on the 2013–2016 exhibitions in Moscow Manege which were later transformed into a network of entertainment centres (“historical parks”) Russia––my (hi)story. The exhibitions are built on multimedia technologies and include no authentic artefacts/museum objects. There is a growing network of such centres all over Russia, all organized in a similar manner, appealing to the visitor’s emotions and creating a relation of affect through the unravelling of a nationalistic historical narrative. Claimed to present “the objective picture of the Russian history” the exhibitions are following the recent developments in Russian cultural policies and history curricula. By analysing narratives presented at the “historical park” exhibitions, in policy documents and in media, this article follows the changes in public attitude towards history, which heritage is perceived as ‘difficult’ and ‘contested’ and how the digital representations influence these perceptions. Based on this analysis I argue that the reduction of the museum mechanism to only digital and multimedia form can bring along very serious issues in different political contexts. Russian historical parks enterprise, which combines the methods of fostering patriotism by the means of historical narrative templates both from the 19th and the 20th centuries, enhanced with the 21st-century technology in a form of “multimedia museums,” is only one of such examples.  
多媒体历史公园与俄罗斯基于遗产的“真理政权”
本文关注的是2013-2016年在莫斯科马涅日举办的展览,这些展览后来被改造成俄罗斯娱乐中心网络(“历史公园”)——我的(嗨)故事。展览是建立在多媒体技术和不包括真正的人工制品/博物馆物品。在俄罗斯各地,这样的中心网络越来越多,它们都以类似的方式组织起来,吸引游客的情感,并通过民族主义历史叙事的展开创造一种情感关系。这些展览旨在展示“俄罗斯历史的客观图景”,并遵循俄罗斯文化政策和历史课程的最新发展。通过分析在“历史公园”展览、政策文件和媒体中呈现的叙述,本文跟踪了公众对历史态度的变化,哪些遗产被认为是“困难的”和“有争议的”,以及数字表现如何影响这些看法。在此基础上,笔者认为,将博物馆机制简化为数字和多媒体形式,在不同的政治背景下会带来非常严重的问题。俄罗斯的历史公园事业将19世纪和20世纪的历史叙事模板与21世纪的技术相结合,以“多媒体博物馆”的形式加强了培养爱国主义的方法,这只是其中的一个例子。
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Culture Unbound
Culture Unbound Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
CiteScore
0.90
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32
审稿时长
20 weeks
期刊介绍: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is a journal for border-crossing cultural research, globally open to articles from all areas in this large field, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents for exploring cultural perspectives, issues and phenomena. It is peer-reviewed and easily accessible for downloading as open access. Culture Unbound is hosted by Linköping University Electronic Press (LiU E-Press, www.ep.liu.se). It is based on a co-operation between three Linköping University units that provide a unique profile to the journal, bridging regional and global research traditions: -The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), with interdisciplinary transnational exchange. -The Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q), with interdisciplinary research and PhD education.
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