Livre - Museums and communities

069 GOL

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Livre

Bloomsbury

Golding Viv

Modest Wayne

Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (XVI- 290 p.)

Dimensions : 24 cm

Museums and Communities thoroughly and unflinchingly interrogates the widely touted goal of collaborative museum work, providing a realistic assessment of the risks and pitfalls, but also the incredible rewards that come with a deep curatorial commitment to working collaboratively. WILLIAM WOOD. Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA All too often museums invoke the idea of “community” in naive and uncritical ways. Here at last is an attempt to complicate this construction, unpick its politics, and explore its dynamics in the context of museum exhibition, engagement and outreach. This book has much to teach us about how museums imagine their communities and reminds us of the need to develop more sophisticated approaches to collaborative museology. PAUL BASU, University College London, UK Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, this volume addresses a significant gap in the literature by critically engaging with contemporary scholarship and exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities. Over 16 chapters, well-respected authors from across the globe address what happens when museums put community-minded principles into practice, challenging readers to move beyond shallow notions of political correctness that ignore vital differences in this contested field. Contributors ask pertinent questions such as how museums negotiate the complexities of integrating collaboration when the target community is a living, fluid, changeable mass of people with their own agendas and agency? What particular challenges and benefits do artist collaborations bring? Recognizing the multiple perspectives of community participants is one thing, but how can museums incorporate this successfully into exhibition practice? Unpacking taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation, and collaboration, this is essential reading for students of museum and cultural studies, practitioners, and everyone who cares about museums around the world. VIV GOLDING is Director of Research Students and Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK. WAYNE MODEST is Head of the Curatorial Department at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, vii LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, xv GOLDING Viv, University of Leicester, UK, Introduction, p. 1 PART ONE: COMMUNITY MATTERS? GOLDING Viv, University of Leicester, UK, Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections, p. 13 GABLE Eric, University of Mary Washington, USA, The City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society, p. 32 TAYLOR Bradley L., University of Michigan, USA, Negotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton and Detroit Communities, p. 48 VARUTTI Marzia, University of Leicester, UK, Learning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan, p. 59 ONCIUL Bryony, Newcastle University, UK, Community Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada, p. 79 MODEST Wayne, Tropenmuseum, the Netherlands, Co-Curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum, p. 98 PART TWO: SHARING AUTHORITY? IERVOLINO Serena, University of Leicester, UK, Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy, p. 113 EXELL Karen, University College London, Qatar, Doha, Community Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum’s Ancient Egypt Galleries, p. 130 HUTCHISON Mary, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia, ‘Shared Authority’: Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra Australia, p. 143 MASON Rhiannon, Chris Whitehead, and Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UK, One Voice to Many Voices?: Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery, p. 163 BREKKE Åshild Andrea, Arts Council, Norway, A Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani-people, p. 178 PART THREE: AUDIENCES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE? AUDIENCE EXPERIENCES? GOLDING Viv, University of Leicester, UK, Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences, p. 195 WOOD Elizabeth, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA, Museums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference, p. 217 FOUSEKI Kalliopi, University College London, UK and Laurajane Smith. Australian National University, Australia, Community Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain’s Abolition of the Slave Trade, p. 232 CARNEGIE Elizabeth, University of Sheffield, UK and Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New Zealand, Interpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Göreme, Cappadocia Turkey, p. 246 WITCOMB Andrea, Deakin University, Australia, Testimony, Memory and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum Melbourne Australia, p. 260 JAMES Kirstin, University of Leicester, UK, Petrina Foti, University of Leicester, UK and the Editors, Afterword: A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce, p. 275 INDEX, p. 285

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