Curatorial Activism builds on Social Movement Studies (the sociology of political reform movements) to build and examine theoretical propositions around the tactics of Curatorial Activism and Contemporary Museology. Case-study focused, it includes strategies for 'activating' historical archives and collections-based data, and for engaging with an archaeology of the everyday to analyze the material residue of protest sites. The 'Occupy Museums' activism (bridging economy, art, and discourses of privilege) provides a site of examination. This book's interdisciplinary framework is drawn...
Curatorial Activism builds on Social Movement Studies (the sociology of political reform movements) to build and examine theoretical proposit...
Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown story about museological transformation and curatorial activism that occurred in the Division of Political and Reform History at the National Museum of American History at this time. Based on interdisciplinary field-based research that has brought together cross-cultural and international...
Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-re...
Museum Studies - as an academic and practical field of research that is rapidly expanding and alive with potential - presents an opportunity and challenge that parallels the explosive growth of museums throughout the world. "Museum Worlds" traces and comments on major regional, theoretical, methodological, and topical themes and debates, and encourages comparison of museum theories, practices, and developments across a variety of settings. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a global editorial board of senior scholars and museum practitioners, "Museum Worlds" both challenges and...
Museum Studies - as an academic and practical field of research that is rapidly expanding and alive with potential - presents an opportunity and ch...
Museums and Racism is a topic/case-study focused examination of the broad themes of mobility and migration through a lens of current affairs and contemporary politics. Concerned with methodology, it investigates diverse disciplinary approaches to conducting research into the cultural politics of museums - the social and political landscape within which museums are located. The book's interdisciplinary framework is drawn from Ethnography and Political Science as well as Museum Studies and Activist Art Studies (political posters will be a particular site of examination). The...
Museums and Racism is a topic/case-study focused examination of the broad themes of mobility and migration through a lens of current affairs ...
