E-books: Museum and Heritage Studies

Edited by Irina D. Costache, Clare Kunny

Collaboration and interdisciplinary practice in the museum are on the rise. Academics, Artists, and Museums examines twenty-first century partnerships between the museum and higher education sectors, with a focus on art museums and exhibits. The edited volume offers detailed analysis of how…

eBook – 2018-06-28
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Natsuko Akagawa, Laurajane Smith

The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and national practices and policies associated with intangible cultural heritage. This volume critically and reflexively examines these practices and policies, providing…

eBook – 2018-06-27
Routledge
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

By Elee Kirk, Will Buckingham

Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws upon Elee Kirk’s research amongst child visitors to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, to…

eBook – 2018-06-20
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Tricia Austin, Jonathan Hale, Oscar Ho Hing-Kay

The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores new research and practice in museum design. Placing a specific emphasis on social responsibility, in its broadest sense, the book emphasises the need for a greater understanding of the impact of museum design in the experiences of visitors, in the…

eBook – 2018-06-18
Routledge
Museum Meanings

Edited by Laurajane Smith, Margaret Wetherell, Gary Campbell

Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as…

eBook – 2018-06-14
Routledge
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

Edited by Paul Clarke, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye, Johanna Linsley

Artists in the Archive explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a stunning collection of critical writings and original artworks. It examines the politics and philosophy behind re-using remains, historicising this artistic practice and considering the breadth of ways in…

eBook – 2018-06-13
Routledge

By Linda Levitt

Monuments and memorials commemorating the dead and past events around the world have recently gained importance, not least because we are living in an era in which many are driven to record and archive the events of their lives. Cemeteries, in particular, are increasingly viewed as places…

eBook – 2018-05-30
Routledge
Heritage, Tourism, and Community

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the…

eBook – 2018-05-24
Routledge
Routledge Companions to Gender

By Kylie Message

Racism is a hot topic in museums today, as well as an urgent social issue. Focused on the broad field of multicultural policy, Museums and Racism examines how the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia, has responded to political culture and public debate around racism. Analysis focuses on the…

eBook – 2018-05-15
Routledge
Museums in Focus

By Deborah Lewittes

In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London, which Le Corbusier called ‘revolutionary’. Three years later, Lubetkin completed a companion design. Yet Highpoint II felt very different, and the sense that the ideals…

eBook – 2018-05-15
Routledge

Edited by Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley

Museum Thresholds is a progressive, interdisciplinary volume and the first to explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor experience. Bringing together an international collection of writers from different disciplines, the chapters in this volume offer different theoretical…

eBook – 2018-05-11
Routledge
Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Edited by Malcolm Quinn, Dave Beech, Michael Lehnert, Carol Tulloch, Stephen Wilson

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art educators, and art, design and cultural…

eBook – 2018-05-11
Routledge
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