1st Edition

Museums without Borders Selected Writings of Robert R. Janes

By Robert R. Janes Copyright 2016
430 Pages
by Routledge

430 Pages
by Routledge

430 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing together nearly 40 years of experience, Museums without Borders presents the key works of one of the most respected practitioners and scholars in the field. Through these selected writings, Robert R. Janes demonstrates that museums have a broader role to play in society than is conventionally assumed. He approaches the fundamental questions of why museums exist and what they mean in... Read more

Introduction
 
Part 1 
 
Other Voices: Indigenous Peoples
 
Introduction


1 Northern Museum Development: A View from the North 

2 Museum Ideology and Practice in Canada's Third World 
 
3 First Nations: Policy and Practice at the Glenbow Museum 
   
4 Personal, Academic and Institutional Perspectives on Museums and First Nations

5 Issues of Repatriation: A Canadian View (With Gerald T. Conaty)


 Part 2
 
 Creative Destruction: Managing Change
 
Introduction

6 Sober Reflections: An Undisguised View of Change at Glenbow

7 Beyond Strategic Planning - The Glenbow Example
 
8 Don’t Lose Your Nerve: Museums and Organizational Change

9 Museums and Change: Some Thoughts on Creativity, Destruction and Self- Organization 

10 Complexity and Creativity in Contemporary Museum Management (With    Richard Sandell)

11 The Mindful Museum

12 Museum Management Revisited

 

Part 3
 
Museums without Borders: Social Responsibility
 
 Introduction

13 What Will Communities Need and Want from Museums in the Future? 
           
14 Exploring Stewardship 

15 Introduction to Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility (With Gerald T. Conaty)

16 Museums, Corporatism and the Civil Society

17 Museums: Stewards or Spectators?

18 What Are Museums For? – Revisiting Museums in a Troubled World
 (With Morten Karnøe Søndergaard)

Part 4 


Dangerous Times: Activism and Ethics
 
Introduction

19 Experimenting with Leadership: Primus inter Pares

20 Persistent Paradoxes – 1997 and 2012
 
21 Debunking the Marketplace

22 Museums and the New Reality
 
23 Museum Management and the Ethical Imperative

24 Museums in a Dangerous Time

 

Epilogue

Bibliography of Robert R. Janes

Biography

Robert R. Janes is an independent scholar and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship from 2003 to 2014. He has worked in and around museums for 39 years as an executive, consultant, editor, author, board member, archaeologist, instructor, volunteer, and philanthropist. Janes has devoted his career to championing museums as important social institutions that are capable of making a difference in the lives of individuals and their communities. He began his career as an archaeologist in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories and continues to work with Canada’s indigenous peoples. He was given a traditional Blackfoot name in 1995. In addition to his museum work, Janes is the co-owner of a permaculture farm and orchard in British Columbia (Canada).