Museum and Heritage Studies

Museums and Social Activism

Engaged Protest

By Kylie Message

Series: Museum Meanings

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...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Museums, Social Inclusion, and Online Networks

By Angelina Russo, Lynda Kelly

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Over the past few years an increasing number of museums have experimented with social media to demonstrate that they are listening and engaging in the world outside. While a number of new publications describe the rise of social media as a potential panacea for dwindling audiences, this book is...

To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge

Museums, Equality and Social Justice

Edited by Richard Sandell, Eithne Nightingale

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

Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums

Ambiguous Engagements

Edited by Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Kalliopi Fouseki, Ross Wilson

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals, community activists and artists who had an...

Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge

Exhibiting Madness in Museums

Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display

Edited by Catharine Coleborne, Dolly MacKinnon

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada...

Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge

Gender, Sexuality and Museums

A Routledge Reader

Edited by Amy K. Levin

Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on...

Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge

Re-Presenting Disability

Activism and Agency in the Museum

Edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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

Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights

Intersections in Theory and Practice

Edited by Michele Langfield, William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights. It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity,...

Published November 29th 2009 by Routledge

Heritage and Identity

Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World

Edited by Marta Anico, Elsa Peralta

Series: Museum Meanings

Heritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing a comprehensive account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures....

Published November 25th 2008 by Routledge

Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum

Time, Space and the Archive

By Griselda Pollock

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the...

Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge

Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference

By Richard Sandell

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

Museums, Society, Inequality

Edited by Richard Sandell

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