Communities and Museums in the 21st Century: Shared Histories and Climate Action

ISBN-13: 9781032288413 / Angielski

Karen Brown; Alissandra Cummins; Ana S. Gonz?lez Rueda

Opis

Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: Museum communities / community museums; PART I, ‘Community Museums: Nurturing identities and resilience’ – Chapter 1, "Community museums and decolonisation: reflections from the Network of Community Museums of America"; Chapter 2, "International collaboration between ecomuseums and community museums: the experience of the EU-LAC Museums bi-regional youth exchange in fostering identity, building community sustainability and resilience"; Chapter 3, "Passion as a mobilising tool for community-based museums: case studies from Southern Chile"; Chapter 4, "Museums and Community Engagement in Belize: case studies for protection and active participation of knowledge"; Chapter 5, "The EU-LAC Museums project and community-based museums";Chapter 6, "Museums as tools for sustainable community development: a study of four archaeological museums in northern Peru; Chapter 7, "Connecting Museums through Citizen Science: Jamaica/US Partnership in Environmental Preservation";Chapter 8, "Evoking wonder to inspire action around climate change – a collaborative exhibition project in the Cayman Islands"; PART II ‘Connecting Regions: Communities and museums co-curating heritage and memory’ – Chapter 9, "The case for a rhizomatic research approach in Caribbean museology"; Chapter 10, "Co-curating memory: deconstructing the silences around Caribbean migration to Britain"; Chapter 11, "A case study of community virtual museums in the age of crisis designing a virtual museum of Caribbean migration and memory"; Chapter 12 "Eco-museology in artistic practice: post-colonial strategies of collective return in Latin America and the Caribbean"; Chapter 13, "Exhibition-making as storytelling: the 14^th FEMSA Biennial in Michoacán Mexico"; Chapter 14, " The Arrivants exhibition: Art, migration, museums, and resurrections"; Chapter 15, "The politics of change: new pedagogical approaches to Caribbean museology, conservation and curatorship"

O autorze

Karen Brown is Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Alissandra Cummins is Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and lecturer and coordinator in museum and heritage studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.

Ana S. González Rueda is a researcher focused on critical approaches to learning in contemporary art curation.