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Museum activism

Title
Museum activism / edited by Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell.
ISBN
9780815369967
0815369964
9780815369974
0815369972
9781351251044
9781351251020
9781351251037
9781351251013
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Physical Description
xxx, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color] ; 26 cm.
Summary
"Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical to fundamental professional values. Today, although the idea remains controversial, the way we think about the roles and responsibilities of museums as knowledge-based, social institutions is changing. Museums and Activism examines the increasing significance of this activist trend in thinking and practice. At this crucial time in the evolution of museum thinking and practice, this ground-breaking volume brings together more than fifty contributors working across six continents to explore, analyse and critically reflect upon the museum's relationship to activism. Including contributions from practitioners, artists, activists and researchers, this wide-ranging examination of new and divergent expressions of the inherent power of museums as forces for good, and as activists in civil society, aims to encourage further experimentation and enrich the debate in this nascent and uncertain field of museum practice. Museum Activism elucidates the largely untapped potential for museums as key intellectual and civic resources to address inequalities, injustice and environmental challenges. This makes the book essential reading for scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, gallery studies, arts and heritage management and politics. It will be a source of inspiration to museum practitioners and museum leaders around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Museum activism Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2019
Series
Museum meanings.
Museum meanings
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Posterity has arrived: the necessary emergence of museum activism / Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell
Detoxing and decolonising museums / Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott
Growing an activist museum professional / Elizabeth Wood and Sarah Cole
Dividing issues and mission-driven activism: museum responses to migration policies and the refugee crisis / Maria Vlachou
Access as activism: bringing the museum to the people / Catherine Kudlick and Edward M. Luby
Fossil fuel sponsorship and the contested museum: agency, accountability and arts activism / Paula Serafini and Chris Garrard
The activist role of museum staff / Victoria Hollows
From the ground up: grassroots social justice activism in American museums / Laura-Edythe S. Coleman and Porchia Moore
Spectacular defiance / Julie McNamara
"I'm gonna do something": moving beyond talk in the museum / Bernadette Lynch
Feminism and the politics of friendship in the activist museum / Viv Golding
Memory exercises: activism, symbolic reparation, and non-repetition in Colombia's National Museum of Memory / Cristina Lleras, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Lina Díaz and Jennifer Carter
Auto agents: inclusive curatorship and its political potential / Jade French
Museums as public forums for 21st century societies: a perspective from the national museums and monuments of Zimbabwe / Njabulo Chipangura and Happinos Marufu
Museums in the climate emergency / Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth
Activism, objects and dialogues: re-engaging African collections at the Royal Ontario Museum / Silvia Forni, Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine
Museological activism and cultural citizenship: collecting the Hong Kong umbrella movement / Selina Ho and Vivian Ting
Museums in the age of intolerance / Sharon Heal
Activist practice through networks: a case study in museum connections / Mercy McCann
Whose memories for which future? Favela museums and the struggle for social justice in Brazil / Marcelo Lages Murta
From vision to action: the journey towards activism at St. Fagans National Museum of History / Sioned Hughes and Elen Phillips
Active museums: inside out / Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale-Hallett, Tatiana Mauri and Kimberley Moulton
Quiet is the new loud? : on activism, museums and changing the world / Åshild Andrea Brekke
Heritage and queer activism / Sean Curran
The activist spectrum in United States museums / Dina A. Bailey
Up against it: contending with power asymmetries in museum work / Kevin Coffee
Taking a position: challenging the anti-authorial turn in art curating / Lynn Wray
Memory activism and the holocaust memorial institutions of the 21st century / Diana I. Popescu
Advocacy and activism: a framework for sustainability science in museums / Sandra L. Rodegher and Stacey Vicario Freeman
Narratives of transformation: stories of impact from activist museums / Jennifer Bergevin
Memorial museums at the intersection of politics, exhibition and trauma: the study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum / Bridget Conley
"I attack this work of art deliberately": suffragette activism in the museum / Nicola Gauld
Museums, activism and social media (or, how Twitter challenges and changes museum practice) / Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher
Unprecedented times? shifting press perceptions on museums and activism / Jenny Kidd.
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