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Museums, Equality and Social Justice
Series: Museum Meanings
The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum...
Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Re-Presenting Disability
Activism and Agency in the Museum
Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations. This...
Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
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Museum Management and Marketing
Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
Drawing together a selection of high quality, intellectually robust and stimulating articles on both theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this Reader investigates the closely linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles, from established and...
Published February 27th 2007 by Routledge
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Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference
How, if it all, do museums shape the ways in which society understands difference? In recent decades there has been growing international interest amongst practitioners, academics and policy makers in the role that museums might play in confronting prejudice and promoting human rights and...
Published October 31st 2006 by Routledge
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Museums, Society, Inequality
Series: Museum Meanings
Museums, Society, Inequality explores the wide-ranging social roles and responsibilities of the museum. It brings together international perspectives to stimulate critical debate, inform the work of practitioners and policy makers, and to advance recognition of the purpose, responsibilities and...
Published January 23rd 2002 by Routledge