The Museum's Borders: On the Challenge of Knowing and Remembering Well

ISBN-13: 9780367486471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 212 str.

Simon Knell

Opis

 The Museum’s Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices.

Spis treści

PRELUDE; 1. Border violence, democracy and museums; INTRODUCTION; 2. The border lens; THE BORDERS OF TRUTH; 3. From ethical borders to border force; 4. The museum’s ethical rebordering; THE BORDERS OF MEMORY; 5. The borders of historical truth; 6. Border armouries, walls and crossings; THE BORDERS OF CONTEMPORARY LIVING; 7. Contemporary museology; 8. Knowing and remembering well

O autorze

Simon Knell is Professorof Contemporary Museology atthe School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK.