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Doing diversity in museums and heritage
This major multi-researcher ethnography provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. The fieldwork is based on the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well...
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Erasure by design
Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the present day.
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Interdisciplinary exhibitions and the production of knowledge
Henriette Pleiger identifies different ways of producing knowledge during the exhibition-making process, as well as the mechanisms that are necessary for an exhibition to be considered interdisciplinary.
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Lady in the dark
Iris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the ...
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Methods of exhibition analysis
A tool kit for exhibition analysis packed with a diversity of methods to critically examine exhibitions from various angles.
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Museum queeries: two-spirit, indigiqueer, and lgbttq* interventions into museums, archives, and curating
This book explores Two-Spirit and LGBTTQ* contributions to and interventions in museums and museum studies, both as a means of addressing structural exclusions and of opening new modes of productive inquiry and activism.
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Museums, transculturality, and the nation-state
With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe,this book investigates the role the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. Contributors ask how the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and illumi...
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Spaces of commemoration and communication
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss examines commemorative culture and its transformation towards interactive and participatory experiences through a novel form of visitor engagement at the Mauthausen memorial visiting center.
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The aftermaths of participation
Based on interviews with museum practitioners, mediators and project participants, Susanne Boersma brings together unique insights into museum work with forced migrants. She assesses projects in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK to illustrate how museums' (post)colonial infrastructures limit th...
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The corporate art index
Based on extensive research, Viviane Mörmann presents twenty-one promising corporate art initiatives (CAIs). She introduces different types of art initiatives and provides a standardized scheme to evaluate them.
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The local museum in the global village
Insa Müller asks how local history museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands, and a museum experiment, she offers starting points for rethinking this institution.
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Whose culture?
The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exc...
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