ABSTRACT
Chapter 13, in detailing the performance of ‘misrecognition’ (defined in Chapter 2), outlines the range of ways in which people attempted to preserve their entrance narratives and self-assurance in their social experiences. These performances tended to occur at national sites where specific curatorial or interpretive interventions were received and dominant national narratives had been attempted. These were instances where visitors made active choices not to learn and to deny the advocacy and utility of the interpretive material before them. Performances of misrecognition were not a form of ‘disengagement’, however, but rather an active engagement and defence of performances of privilege and reinforcement, discussed in Chapters 9 and 10.
