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Learning at the Museum Frontiers
In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier - a zone where learning is created, new identities are forged and new connections made between disparate groups and their own histories. She draws on a range of theoretical perspectives including Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, Foucauldian discourse on space and power, and postcolonial and Black feminist theory, as well as her own professional experience in museum education over a ten-year period, applying these ideas to a wide range of museum contexts. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they can contribute to society. The author reveals the radical potential for museums to tackle injustice and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and promote truth.
Museums and Communities
This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities. The book unpacks taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation and collaboration, which can gloss over the complexity of identities and lead to tokenistic claims of inclusion by museums. Over sixteen chapters, well-respected authors from the US, Australia and Europe offer a timely critique ...
The Sustainable Museum
The Sustainable Museum is the first book to outline a coherent strategy for the direction of museums, as it relates to sustainability in the museum and heritage sector. Arguing that museums must place sustainability at the centre of all their activities, if they are to become key actors with a clear societal role, Garthe considers the issues that museums will likely face as they take on their new roles. Presenting case studies from a wide range of museums around the world, the book considers different ways of implementing sustainability in different types and sizes of institutions. Whilst the book clearly outlines the need for change, it also provides guidance about how to change. Garthe doe...
Museum and Gallery Education
The educational role of museums has become a key professional concern. This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. The contributed essays provide timely reviews of the key themes and case studies provide practical examples of the research. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.
Photography, History, Difference
Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the medium, while shedding light on non-Western, vernacular, and "other" photographic practices outside the Euro-American canon. Photography, History, Difference brings together an international group of scholars to reflect on contemporary efforts to take a different approach to photography and its histories. What are the benefits and challenges of writing a consolidated, global history of photography? How do they compare with those of producing more circumscribed regional or thematic histories? In what ways does the recent emphasis on geographic and national specificity...
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Swinging Her Breasts at History
This innovative collection of scholarly essays addresses crucial questions such as "How is Caribbean women's literature remembering a history characterized by trauma, dislocation, and loss? and "What are the meanings of literary silences and how might such meanings be read? Scholars from around the world provide a vibrant, informed range of approaches to writing published variously in English, Spanish, French, and Creole. The contributors include Begonia Vilouta-Vazquez, Celia Burgess-Macey, Maria Helena Lima, Jane Desmaris, Allison Francis-Brockert, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Laura Durden, Kristyn Jane Saunders, Odile Ferly, Gema S. Castillo Garcia, Marjorie Brooks-Jones, Denise DeCaires Narain, Jean Andrews, Sue Thomas, Moira Inghilleri, Joan Anim-Addo, Betty E. Wilson, Velma Pollard, Sandra Campos, Gillian Kathryn Smith, Vivien Golding, Beryl Gilroy, Felix Kindelan Delis, and Paula Morgan.
Learning at the Museum Frontiers
In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier, to tackle injustice and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and promote truth. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they can contribute to society.
Interpreting Objects in the Hybrid Museum
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 of restructured cultural organisations in Australia and New Zealand, Robinson provides valuable insights into the conceptual and practical ways in which hybridised collecting institutions operate. Reflecting on the ultimate value of converged institutions for the communities they serve, the book uncovers the dangers of misalignment between bureaucratic decision-making and the creation of cultural me...
Museums and Communities
With contributions from key scholars in a range of disciplines, this engaging new volume explores the complex issues surrounding collaboration between museums and their communities.
