Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project
My qualitative research paper focuses on the Anne Frank sapling installation at the Clinton Presidential Museum and Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Saplings grafted from the tree that grew outside Anne Frank’s window in Amsterdam while she wrote her famous diary are provided by the Anne Frank Cent...
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| description | My qualitative research paper focuses on the Anne Frank sapling installation at the Clinton Presidential Museum and Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Saplings grafted from the tree that grew outside Anne Frank’s window in Amsterdam while she wrote her famous diary are provided by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect to organizations that will link the tree to dialogues about past and present social justice issues. Building on Thomas Gieryn’s recent work on “truth-spots,” I explore the sapling installation as a possible “truth-spot,” and reflect on what kind of truth is supported there. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, I consider the sapling as a boundary-crossing entity that, together with other elements of the installation, stimulates reflection and inclusive dialogue, and fosters hope without shunning complexity. I discuss the sapling’s ecological needs and material agency, since it is not a passive recipient of human meanings and orchestrations. I also comment on the changing role of museum installations and exhibit space in the context of social justice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9c0d8f58dafa4d12bc943b902a7c3b342022-12-21T19:04:47ZengLodz University PressQualitative Sociology Review1733-80772020-08-01163284710.18778/1733-8077.16.3.038149Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling ProjectStella M. Čapek0Hendrix College, USAMy qualitative research paper focuses on the Anne Frank sapling installation at the Clinton Presidential Museum and Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Saplings grafted from the tree that grew outside Anne Frank’s window in Amsterdam while she wrote her famous diary are provided by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect to organizations that will link the tree to dialogues about past and present social justice issues. Building on Thomas Gieryn’s recent work on “truth-spots,” I explore the sapling installation as a possible “truth-spot,” and reflect on what kind of truth is supported there. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, I consider the sapling as a boundary-crossing entity that, together with other elements of the installation, stimulates reflection and inclusive dialogue, and fosters hope without shunning complexity. I discuss the sapling’s ecological needs and material agency, since it is not a passive recipient of human meanings and orchestrations. I also comment on the changing role of museum installations and exhibit space in the context of social justice.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/8149truth-spotstreessocial justicemuseumsanne frank |
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| title | Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project |
| title_full | Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project |
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| title_short | Trees as Dialogue: Negotiating Boundaries with the Anne Frank Sapling Project |
| title_sort | trees as dialogue negotiating boundaries with the anne frank sapling project |
| topic | truth-spots trees social justice museums anne frank |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/8149 |
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