Museums and their Communities 1st Edition by Sheila Watson ISBN 978-0415402590 041540259X

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ISBN 10: 041540259X

ISBN 13: 978-0415402590

Author:   Sheila Watson

Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community.

Focusing on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, Sheila Watson examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, communities.

Looking at the current debates about the role of the museum, she considers contested values in museum functions and examines provision, power, ownership, responsibility, and institutional issues.

This book is of great relevance for all disciplines as it explores and questions the role of the museum in modern society.

Table of contents: 

PART ONE

CHANGING ROLES OF MUSEUMS OVER TIME AND CURRENT CHALLENGES

Introduction to Part One

SHEILA WATSON

1 The Museum and the Public

STEPHEN BECAUSE

2 ‘Play It Again, Sam’: reflections on a new museology

MARJORIE M. HALPIN

3 Place Exploration: museums, identity, community

PETER DAVIS

4 Interpretive Communities, Strategies and Repertoires

HOOPER-GREENHILL ISLAND

5 Museums and the Combating of Social Inequality: roles, responsibilities, resistance

RICHARD SANDELL

6

Museums for ‘The People’?

JOSIE APPLETON

7 A Quest for Identity

NELSON GRABURN

8 ‘A Place for All of Us’? Museums and Communities

ANDREA WITCOMB

9 From Treasure House to Museum and Back

MOIRA SIMPSON

PART TWO

WHO CONTROLS THE MUSEUM?

Introduction to Part Two

SHEILA WATSON

10 Exhibitions of Power and Powers of Exhibition: an introduction to the politics of display

SHARON MACDONALD

11 Nuclear Reactions: the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum

TIMOTHY W. LUKE

12 The Postmodern Exhibition: cut on the bias, or is Enola Gay a verb?

STEVEN C. DUBIN

13

Sachsenhausen: a flawed museum

ROGER BORDAGE

14 Representing Diversity and Challenging Racism: the Migration Museum

VIV SEKERES

15 Collection, Repatriation and Identity

CRESSIDA FFORDE

16 Yours, Mine, or Ours? Conflicts between archaeologists and ethnic groups

JOE WATKINS

CONTE

PART THREE

MUSEUMS AND IDENTITIES

Introduction to Part Three

SHEILA WATSON

17

Canadian Museums and the Representation of Culture in a Multicultural Nation

GEORGE F. MACDONALD AND STEPHEN ALSFORD

18 Museums as Agents for Social and Political Change

DAWN CASEY

19 Museums, Communities and the Politics of Heritage in Northern Ireland

ELIZABETH CROOKE

20 Regenerating Identity: repatriation and the Indian frame of mind

RICHARD W. HILL, SR.

21 Identity and Community: a look at four Latino

museums

HERLINDA ZAMORA

22

Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in the United States

PETER C. MARZIO

23 The Peopling of London Project

NICK MERRIMAN

24 Inspiration Africa!: Using tangible and intangible

heritage to promote social inclusion amongst young people with disabilities

VIV GOLDING

PART FOUR

COMMUNITIES REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING

Introduction to Part Four

SHEILA WATSON

25 Memory Experience: the forms and functions of memory

BARBARA MISZTAL

26 Exhibiting Memories

STEVEN LUBAR

27 Past Tense

PETER BERESFORD

28 The Exhibition that Speaks for Itself: oral history and museums

ANNA GREEN

29 Contesting ‘Local’ Commemoration of the Second World War: the case of the Changi Chapel and Museum in Singapore

HAMZAH MUZAINI AND BRENDA S.A. YEOH

30 Collective Amnesia and the Mediation of Painful Pasts: the representation of France in the Second World War

KEVIN WALSH

31 Victims Remembered

TIFFANY JENKINS

32 The Holocaust Museum Concept

TERENCE DUFFY

33 Mapping the Memories: politics, place and identity in the District Six Museum, Cape Town

CHARMAINE MCEACHERN

PART FIVE

CHALLENGES: MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Introduction to Part Five

SHEILA WATSON

34 State Authority and the Public Sphere: ideas on the changing role of the museum as a Canadian social institution

SUSAN ASHLEY

35 Museums: constructing a public culture in the global age

ANNETTE VAN DEN BOSCH

36 Money, Power, and the History of Art: Whose money? Whose power? Whose art history?

JAMES CUNG

37 Museums and Source Communities

LAURA PEERS AND ALISON K. BROWN

38 Archaeology and Vanua Development in Fiji

ANDREW CROSBY

39 Kist and Tell

MATT BARNARD

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