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Museums as Agents for Social Change: Collaborative Programmes at the Mutare Museum book cover

1st Edition

Museums as Agents for Social Change Collaborative Programmes at the Mutare Museum

By Njabulo Chipangura, Jesmael Mataga Copyright 2021
138 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe, this book considers how museums with inherited colonial legacies are dealing with their new environments. The book provides an... Read more
Introduction: Museum Pasts and Decolonised Futures in Africa;  1. Beating the Drums: Co-curatorship and Reconfiguration of Colonial Ethnographic Collections;  2. Museum Activism: Decolonised Exhibition Practices, Public Pedagogies and Social Change;  3. Heritage, Communities and Collaborative Involvement at Matendera Archaeological Site;  4. Inclusion, Collaboration and Sustainable Heritage Conservation Practices at the Ziwa Archaeological Site;  5. Conclusion: Local Communities and the Future of the African Museum

Biography

Njabulo Chipangura is a postdoctoral research fellow at Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a visiting fellow in the Museum and Gallery Practice Programme at University College London, Qatar. He has previously worked as curator of archaeology at Mutare museum, Eastern Zimbabwe for ten years.

Jesmael Mataga is an Associate Professor of Heritage Studies and the Head of the School of Humanities at Sol Plaatje University (SPU), a new university in Kimberley, South Africa. He previously worked for the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) and taught at the University of Zimbabwe and at the National University of Lesotho

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