Museum and Heritage Studies

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

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