1st Edition
The Museum’s Borders On the Challenge of Knowing and Remembering Well
By Simon Knell
Copyright 2021
212 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Museum’s Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices.
Arguing that the museum is a critical institution for the operation of knowledge-based democracies, Knell investigates how they have been used by scientists, art historians... Read more
PRELUDE
1. Border violence, democracy and museums
INTRODUCTION
2. The border lens
THE BORDERS OF TRUTH
3. From ethical borders to border force
4. The museum’s ethical rebordering
THE BORDERS OF MEMORY
5. The borders of historical truth
6. Border armouries, walls and crossings
THE BORDERS OF CONTEMPORARY LIVING
7. Contemporary museology
8. Knowing and remembering well
Biography
Simon Knell is Professor of Contemporary Museology at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK.
