Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9781138675889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 340 str.

Australia) Tony (University of Western Sydney Bennett

Opis

Museums, Power, Knowledge stands out as marking a series of strategic engagements with Foucault’s work to offer a critical genealogy of the public museum. It looks to natural history, anthropological, art, geological, and history museums across the globe to offer a compelling account of the shifting political logics of museums over the modern period.

The volume will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, cultural history, cultural studies and sociology as well as to museum professionals and visitors.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Note on the text; Introduction: Museums, Power, Knowledge; PART 1. CIVIC ENGINES; Chapter1. The Exhibitionary Complex; Chapter 2. The Multiplication of Culture’s Utility; Chapter 3. Museums, Nations, Empires, Religions; PART 2. MACHINERIES OF MODERNITY; Chapter 4. Museums and Progress: Narrative, Ideology, Performance; Chapter 5. Pasts Beyond Memories: The Evolutionary Museum, Liberal Government and the Politics of Prehistory; Chapter 6. Pedagogic Objects, Clean Eyes and Popular Instruction: On Sensory Regimes and Museum Didactics; Chapter 7. Exhibition, Difference and the Logic of Culture; PART 3. ASSEMBLING AND GOVERNING CULTURES; Chapter 8. The ‘Shuffle of Things’ and the Distribution of Agency; Chapter 9. Collecting, Instructing, Governing: Fields, Publics, Milieus; Chapter 10. Aesthetics, Culture and the Ordering of Race: Boas and the Boasians; Chapter 11. Re-collecting Ourselves: Indigenous Time, Culture, Community and the Museum; Notes; References; Index