The Cultural Dynamics Journal publishes a Special Issue online first with contributions of TraCe researchers of the research areas Interpretations and Synergies. The Special Issue comprises seven contributions, which were published online between February and March 2025. Cultural Dynamics is a peer reviewed Sage journal with an interdisciplinary focus on the structured inequalities of the contemporary world.
Sabine Mannitz and Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann introduce the Special Issue with their contribution “Displaying and processing political violence in museum spaces”. In addition, Sabine Mannitz, in collaboration with Rita Theresa Kopp, publish the article “’The city before the city‘: Attempts at unravelling colonial violence in Canadian museums”. Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann also contributes an article to the Special Issue entitled “’Deconstructed bodies: In search of home‘ - Amna Elhassan's (temporary) memorial for the Khartoum massacre 2019”.
Furthermore, Kaya de Wolff publishes together with Rebeca Lopes Cabral an article on the culture of memory in Brazil, entitled “Democratizing memories of the Brazilian dictatorship? Permanent and temporary exhibitions in the Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo”. Anika Oettler and Amada Carolina Pérez Benavides contribute the article “Encoding and decoding a postcolonial constellation. Challenges for the national museum of Colombia”.
The contributions “Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art” by Birgit Bräuchler and Alexander Supartono, and “Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM): Exhibiting political violence in Peru” by Fabiola Arellano Cruz are also part of the Special Issue.
Most of the articles are available open access from SageJournals.