Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat

Jacob C. Miller; Sharon Wilson

doi:10.1111/gec3.12623

Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat

Jacob C. Miller^*, Sharon Wilson

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Abstract

Many scholars have examined the museum as a site of politics. This paper reviews recent research on museums and puts forward “soft combat” as a device for understanding how museums operate as geopolitical entities today. Soft combat includes (a) enrolling the visitor in affective atmospheres, (b) engaging with violence and trauma, and (c) embodied persuasion. We examine a military museum in the U.S.A to substantiate soft combat as a kind of biopolitics.

Original language	English
Article number	e12623
Number of pages	13
Journal	Geography Compass
Volume	16
Issue number	6
Early online date	6 May 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12623
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2022

Keywords

body
cultural geography
geopolitics
historical
political geography
qualitative methods
social geography
society

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