Museums in Focus – serie
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46 produkter
Museums as Agents for Social Change
Collaborative Programmes at the Mutare Museum
Av Njabulo Chipangura, Jesmael Mataga
Inbunden, 2021
1029 kr
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Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe, this book considers how museums with …
Digital Access and Museums as Platforms
Inbunden, 2021
999 kr
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Digital Access and Museums as Platforms draws on interviews with museum practitioners, along with a range of case studies from public and private institutions, in order to investigate the tensions and benefits involved in making cultural collections available using digital technologies. Taking a …
Museums and Racism
Häftad, 2021
381 kr
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Racism is a hot topic in museums today, as well as an urgent social issue. Focused on the broad field of multicultural policy, Museums and Racism examines how the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia, has responded to political culture and public debate around racism.Analysis focuses on the …
Museums and Atlantic Slavery
Inbunden, 2021
1025 kr
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Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas. Divided into four chapters, the book addresses four recurrent themes: wealth and …
Museums and Atlantic Slavery
Häftad, 2023
322 kr
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Museums and Atlantic Slavery explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in museums in Europe and the Americas. Divided into four chapters, the book addresses four recurrent themes: wealth and …
Sharing Authority in the Museum
Distributed objects, reassembled relationships
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Focussing on Māori objects, predominantly originating from the Ngā Paerangi tribe, housed in Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the …
Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation
The Keeping Place
Av Robert Hudson, Shannon Woodcock
Inbunden, 2022
1025 kr
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Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation, and cross-cultural community engagement in a dynamic Koori museum.Grounded in the fact that Gunai Kurnai people have never ceded sovereignty, the text reorients dominant …
Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation
The Keeping Place
Av Robert Hudson, Shannon Woodcock
Häftad, 2024
337 kr
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Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation, and cross-cultural community engagement in a dynamic Koori museum.Grounded in the fact that Gunai Kurnai people have never ceded sovereignty, the text reorients dominant …
Interpreting Objects in the Hybrid Museum
Convergence, Collections and Cultural Policy
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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Interpreting Objects in the Hybrid Museum examines the recent trend for converged collecting institutions and uses its investigation as a catalyst for critical reflection by all stakeholders on the risks, as well as advantages, of integration for cultural engagement. Drawing on three case studies …
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Experiences of Return in Central Australia
Inbunden, 2023
999 kr
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Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians. Combining a critical examination of the making of these collections …
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Experiences of Return in Central Australia
Häftad, 2024
328 kr
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Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians. Combining a critical examination of the making of these collections …
Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street
Häftad, 2021
381 kr
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Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of ‘the 99%’.Examining processes of collection development as a lens through which to investigate the sociology …
Science Museums in Transition
Unheard Voices
Av Hooley McLaughlin, Judy Diamond
Häftad, 2021
386 kr
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Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices considers how museums can adapt their exhibits, programs, and organizational structures to the diversity of ideas, people, and cultures that speak to modern science.This collection contains individual expressions by museum insiders addressing a range of …
Museum in Public
Revisioning Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum
Häftad, 2021
381 kr
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Not satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly public nature of their institutional role continues to be a rhetorical one. This book critically examines …
Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy
Post-Guggenheim Developments
Häftad, 2021
386 kr
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Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy traces the transformation of museums from publicly or privately funded heritage institutions into active players in the economic sector of culture. Exploring how this transformation reconfigured cultural diplomacy, the book argues that museums have become …
Disobedient Museum
Writing at the Edge
Häftad, 2019
381 kr
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The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge aims to motivate disciplinary thinking to reimagine writing about museums as an activity where resistant forms of thinking, seeing, feeling, and acting can be produced, and to theorize this process as a form of protest against disciplinary …
Queering the Museum
Av Nikki Sullivan, Craig Middleton
Inbunden, 2019
768 kr
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Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern …
Sharing Authority in the Museum
Distributed objects, reassembled relationships
Inbunden, 2018
988 kr
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Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Focussing on Māori objects, predominantly originating from the Ngā Paerangi tribe, housed in Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the …
Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy
Post-Guggenheim Developments
Inbunden, 2019
1002 kr
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Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy traces the transformation of museums from publicly or privately funded heritage institutions into active players in the economic sector of culture. Exploring how this transformation reconfigured cultural diplomacy, the book argues that museums have become …
Museums as Agents for Social Change
Collaborative Programmes at the Mutare Museum
Av Njabulo Chipangura, Jesmael Mataga
Häftad, 2023
323 kr
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Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe, this book considers how museums with …
Queering the Museum
Av Nikki Sullivan, Craig Middleton
Häftad, 2021
388 kr
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Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern …
Anti-Museum
Häftad, 2021
384 kr
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Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in Australia, Art42 in Paris and Donald Judd’s Marfa, the book assesses their potential to engage museum …
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols
Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities
Häftad, 2021
373 kr
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Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums’ responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred …
Digital Access and Museums as Platforms
Häftad, 2023
324 kr
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Digital Access and Museums as Platforms draws on interviews with museum practitioners, along with a range of case studies from public and private institutions, in order to investigate the tensions and benefits involved in making cultural collections available using digital technologies. Taking a …
Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal
Mother Stuff
Inbunden, 2023
1002 kr
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Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal is the first book to address the underrepresentation of motherhood in museums.Questioning how mothering and maternal experiences should be represented in museums, Louise-Clarke argues that such institutions wield the power to influence what we …
Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal
Mother Stuff
Häftad, 2025
373 kr
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Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal is the first book to address the underrepresentation of motherhood in museums.Questioning how mothering and maternal experiences should be represented in museums, Louise-Clarke argues that such institutions wield the power to influence what we …
Black Curator
Activists for Representation, and Decolonization of Museums
Inbunden, 2025
1032 kr
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The Black Curator highlights the role that Black curators have long played in advocating for black artists and social changes and argues that they made a significant contribution to the democratization of museums over the last 150 years.Drawing on oral testimonies and archival research, this book …
Black Curator
Activists for Representation, and Decolonization of Museums
Häftad, 2026
384 kr
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The Black Curator highlights the role that Black curators have long played in advocating for black artists and social changes and argues that they made a significant contribution to the democratization of museums over the last 150 years.Drawing on oral testimonies and archival research, this book …
Mind Museums
Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health
Inbunden, 2024
1032 kr
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Mind Museums offers a fresh perspective on the heritage of mental health, bringing museums into sharp focus. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from architecture, museum and exhibition design, and heritage and museum studies, it examines former psychiatric asylums that have been converted into …
Mind Museums
Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health
Häftad, 2025
384 kr
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Mind Museums offers a fresh perspective on the heritage of mental health, bringing museums into sharp focus. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from architecture, museum and exhibition design, and heritage and museum studies, it examines former psychiatric asylums that have been converted into …
