Museums & Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse

ISBN-13: 9781611328271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 156 str.

Elizabeth A. Bollwerk; Natalye B. Tate; Robert P. Connolly

Opis

This book focuses on community engagement in museum and archaeological contexts. It shows how the process of opening authority through engagement is implicitly and explicitly connected to a variety of social issues and, as a consequence, is a social issue in itself.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
Elizabeth A. Bollwerk and Natalye B. Tate

2. Footprints of the Ancestors: Reengaging Hopi Youth with Their Culture
George Gumerman, Joelle Clark, Elmer J. Satala, and Ruby Chimerica

3. Chicago Cultural Alliance: Promoting Social Change and Cultural Diversity
Rebeccah Sanders and Elise Fulara

4. From Memory to Action: Multisited Visitor Action at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Joy Sather-Wagstaff and Rebekah Sobel

5. Engaging Chicago's Communities in Climate Action
Mario Longoni and Ryan Lugalia-Hollon

6. Paradoxes in Designs for New Philadelphia National Historic Landmark
Kathryn O. Fay and Christopher Fennel

7. The C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa: Community Engagement at an Archaeological Site
Robert P. Connolly, Samantha E. Gibbs, and Mallory L. Bader

8. To Form a More Perfect Union: National Civil Rights Museum
Tracy Lauritzen Wright

9. Public Art and Exhibitions Made for a Social Purpose
Robyn Buseman, Thora Jacobson, and Cynthia Little

10. Museums as Third Places or What? Accessing the Social Without Reservations
Natalye B. Tate

11. Concluding Comments
Elizabeth A. Bollwerk

O autorze

Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Natalye B. Tate, Robert P. Connolly