1st Edition

The Disobedient Museum Writing at the Edge

By Kylie Message Copyright 2018
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge aims to motivate disciplinary thinking to reimagine writing about museums as an activity where resistant forms of thinking, seeing, feeling, and acting can be produced, and to theorize this process as a form of protest against disciplinary stagnation. Drawing on a range of cultural, theoretical, and political approaches, Kylie Message examines... Read more

Introduction: ‘This is not a protest. This is a process’  1. Political Protest  2. Disciplinary Crisis  3. Writing Resistance  Conclusion: ‘Movements are born in the moments when abstract principles become concrete concerns’

Biography



Kylie Message is Associate Professor and Senior Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. She is the Series Editor of ‘Museums in Focus’.