Spacing Times, Telling Times and Narrating the Past

Crang, M.

doi:10.1177/0961463x94003001002

Spacing Times, Telling Times and Narrating the Past

Crang, M.

Authors

Professor Michael Crang m.a.crang@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

This paper takes one institution, the museum, and suggests how this institution organizes understandings of time. Museums are seen as actively organizing practices that sustain certain views of the world. The paper takes a single case study to illustrate how such practices may be currently organized. It suggests that while analysis of cultural grammar may be illuminating, a narratological perspective is required in order to analyse practices in modern museums. Thus it is suggested that studies of narrativity may shed some light on contemporary understandings of temporality.

Citation

Crang, M. (1994). Spacing Times, Telling Times and Narrating the Past. Time & Society, 3(1), 29-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x94003001002

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Feb 1, 1994
Deposit Date	Jan 27, 2009
Publicly Available Date	Jan 27, 2009
Journal	Time & Society
Print ISSN	0961-463X
Electronic ISSN	1461-7463
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	3
Issue	1
Pages	29-45
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x94003001002
Keywords	Museums, Narrative, Ricoeur.

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