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Book SynopsisThis book presents the Complex-System Approach to Personality, which seeks to promote the development of integrative theorizing and subsumes particular insights from earlier models while permitting both within-person and between-person comparisons.Trade Review Prepublication praise: 'This book represents a substantial advance. The author develops a complex theoretical edifice that combines in a judicial way the biological, psychological, and situational approaches to personality. I am certain that Fajkowska's new theory will exert much influence in the years ahead.' (Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University, Whitelands College) 'A masterpiece. This book includes many new ideas, presents new material, and constitutes the platform for a new approach to personality. Fajkowska has attempted a tour de force and has written a book that will be difficult- if not impossible-for anyone interested in personality to overlook.' (Shulamith Kreitler, Tel Aviv University) 'In this book Malgorzata Fajkowska presents her Complex-System Approach to Personality, a pioneering attempt to integrate personality research that proposes a model in which temperament traits and attentional processes are functionally related. An original and unique contribution to the literature on personality.' (Jan Strelau, University of Social Sciences and Humanities) Table of ContentsPersonality coherence and incoherence: An overview of the book I. A Complex-System Approach to Personality Introduction: General view of a system-based approach to personality Chapter 1. A Complex-System Approach to Personality: Related meta-theoretical issues Chapter 2. Specifying the personality architecture within the Complex-System Approach to Personality: From related meta-theory to theory II. Anxiety and depression in the Complex-System Approach to Personality Introduction: Introducing anxiety and depressed mood: The complex phenomena Chapter 3. Anxiety and depression within the System of Integration and Regulation Stimulation Chapter 4. Anxiety and depression within the structure of coherent and incoherent types of personalities Chapter 5. Coherent/incoherent personality structures and attentional stimulation processing III. Epilogue Chapter 6. Looking to the future: A need for integrative models of personality References Index

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Book Synopsis A richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the French court of Versailles published to accompany the exhibition at London's Science Museum. Between the 1660s and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, the royal palace of Versailles commonly associated with its architecture, gardens and courtly splendour was also a place of serious scientific enquiry. This engaging book reveals how the French monarchy harnessed science to enhance its prestige and extend its global influence.Versailles: Science and Splendour explores the relationship between science and power during the reigns of kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, a period when the practice of what we now call science' changed significantly, and highlights how science and empire were connected at Versailles. This book, which accompanies a temporary exhibition at the Science Museum in London, features 16 chapters by experts from Britain, France and America. Each chapter is inspired by fascinating objects, from a stuffed rhinoceros to an exquisite astronomical clock. The stories covered range from the early days of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and the engineering behind Versailles's fountains, to the menagerie of rare animals that lived in the grounds and the first hot-air balloon flight at the palace.

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Book SynopsisA Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature WritingThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts?''A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration of nature, history, and of course the countryside.'' Charles Spencer, author of The White ShipFor most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. We poured our energies into growing food, tending to animals and watching the weather. Family, friends and neighbours were often one and the same. Life revolved around the village and its key spaces and places the church, the green, the school and the marketplace.And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold.There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history. From farming tools to children's toys, domestic objects and strange curios, the everyday items of the past reveal fascinating insights into an often-forgotten way of life. Birth, death, celebration, work, crime, play, medicine, beliefs, diet and our relationship with nature can all be read from these remnants of our past.From ancient artefacts to modern-day memorabilia, this startling book weaves a rich tapestry from the fragments of our rural past.

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Book SynopsisThe Role of Today's Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the book examines the consequences of this for the services that museums provide, the publics to whom they are provided and the providers themselves.Adopting a wide perspective on understandings of the roles of museums and considering the different environments within which museums operate, Gray and McCall provide a new perspective on how transformations, as well as the gaps between intended policies and the actual work that is undertaken within museums, can be both identified and understood. By differentiating between social, economic and political visions and expectations of museums, the analysis in this book allows for a fuller understanding of what these organisations do and provide for their societies and the struggles and negotiations that surround their existence.The Role of Today's Museum takes a critical,Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: What do Museums do? What are Museums for?; Chapter 3: The Multifunctional Museum; Chapter 4: Museums, Policy, Practice and the ‘Struggle over Space’; Chapter 5: Museums and Societies; Chapter 6: Museums and Economies; Chapter 7: Museums and Politics; Chapter 8: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisVisitors to museums, galleries, heritage sites and other not for profit attractions receive their information in changing ways. Communications channels are shifting and developing all the time, presenting new challenges to cultural PR and Marketing teams. Marketing and Public Relations for Museums, Galleries, Cultural and Heritage Attractions, as well as providing some of the theory of marketing, provides the latest available case studies coupled with comments and advice from professionals inside and outside the cultural sector to describe the possibilities and outline strategies for the future.A strong theme of change runs through each chapter. The economic climate is already affecting the publicly funded sectors and business and private sponsorship. How will it change over the next few years? The print media is contracting; reading and viewing patterns are changing as online and mobile media grow. What are the trends here, in Europe, US and elsewhere? SustainabilitTable of ContentsPART I: MARKETING AND PR PRINCIPLES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 1. Marketing in a new dimension 2. Public Relations is more than PR 3. The Marketing Strategy - Stage One – The Internal Audit 4. The Marketing Strategy – Stage 2 – The External Audit 5. A Public Relations strategy for every occasion 6. Everything you want to know about brands and branding PART II: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE 7. Creating the Marketing Plan 8. Tactical marketing and audience development 9. Making the most of your tourism potential 10. The media overview - the future is….? 11. Engaging with media through PR 12. Events as part of the public relations mix 13. Internal communications - new ways of communicating 14. Communicating with stakeholders and developing partnerships 15. Commercial and fundraising activities – the relationship with Marketing and PR 16. Crisis Communications PART III: RESEARCH AND RESOURCES 17. Research, monitoring and evaluation in Marketing and PR 18. Resources Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths â expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects â form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America together. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach. The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas explores the history and society of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-four chapters cover a range of concepts and dynamics in the Americas from the colonial period until the present century: The shared histories and dynamics of Inter-American relationships are considered through pre-Hispanic empires, colonization, European hegemony, migration, multiculturalism, and political and economic interdependences. Key concepts are selected and explored from different geopolitical, disciplinary, and epistemological perspectives. Highlighting the contested character of key concepts that are usually defined in strict disciplinary terms, the Handbook provides the basis for a better and deeper understanding of inter-American entanglements. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, and globalization studies. Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Part I History and Society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th Century Introduction: History and Society in the Americas from the 16th to 19th Century. The Bigger Picture 1 America 2 Atlantic 3 Colonial Economies 4 Colonial Rule 5 Columbian Exchange 6 Conquest and Colonization 7 Enlightenment 8 Gender 9 Independence Movements 10 Indigenous Peoples 11 Inter-ethnic Relations 12 Language 13 Memorial Culture 14 Migration 15 Nation and State Building 16 Religion and Missionizing 17 Slavery 18 Unfree Labor Part II History and Society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st Century Introduction: History and Society in the Americas in the 20th and 21st Century. Inter-American Thresholds and Critical Key Concepts 19 Alter-Globalization 20 Biopolitics 21 Consumerism 22 Education 23 Ethnicity 24 Family 25 Freedom 26 Gender Identities 27 Health 28 Hybridity, Mestizaje, Creolité 29 Indigeneity 30 Intersectionality 31 Latinidad 32 Memory Politics 33 Modernization 34 Multiculturalism 35 Popular 36 Postcolonialism and Decoloniality 37 Race 38 Religious Beliefs 39 Social Movements 40 Socialism 41 Subcultures 42 Transnational Migration 43 Urbanization 44 Whiteness

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Book SynopsisThe Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world curated, brought to light, and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising social haunting': the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again. Examining the relationship between historical practices such as archaeology and archival work in order to think about how the social landscape is reinvented with reference to the ghosts of the past, the author explores the literary and historical status and accounts of the ghost, not for what they might tell us about these figures, but for their significance for our, constantly re-invented, re-vivified, re-ghosted social world. With chapters on haunted houses and castles, slave ghosts, the haunting airs of music, the prehistoric origin of spirits, Marxist spectres, Freudian revenants, and the ghosts in the machine, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory adopts multi-disciplinary methods for understanding the Trade Review'This wide-ranging study of haunting as a social practice carefully excavates and illuminates the dazzling array of literal and metaphorical landscapes - from the prehistoric to the (post)colonial and from the musical to the digital - in which ghosts are sedimented, ready to re-emerge as social forces in the present.' - Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Hudson sets out to write a sociology of haunting, to delineate the ‘social power of the ghost’. Using an associative logic that glides like a spectre through disciplinary boundaries, this book puts Marx, Brecht, Rilke and David Mitchell together, teases ghost stories from ancient landscapes and haunted houses, and even gets grumpy materialist Theodor Adorno together with wide-eyed spiritualist Sir Oliver Lodge to meditate on the capacious possibilities bound up with ideas of social haunting. An absorbing, challenging read.' - Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck University of London, U.K"Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory offers wide-ranging sociological analysis of ghosts and the places in which they appear. Unlike other volumes specializing in literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic reflections on ghosts, Hudson links their ephemeral appearance with rootedness in the social context of landscapes. […] Hudson mirrors the difficulties that the living face in trying to grasp and describe the social power of ghosts. The experience of being haunted by ghosts in certain places is difficult to pin down. Hudson is to be commended for an original, interdisciplinary analysis of social ghosts and landscapes that will be of interest to readers in sociology, memory studies, philosophy, cultural studies and literature." – Siobhan Kattago, Memory Studies'This wide-ranging study of haunting as a social practice carefully excavates and illuminates the dazzling array of literal and metaphorical landscapes – from the prehistoric to the (post)colonial and from the musical to the digital – in which ghosts are sedimented, ready to re-emerge as social forces in the present.' - Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Hudson sets out to write a sociology of haunting, to delineate the "social power of the ghost". Using an associative logic that glides like a spectre through disciplinary boundaries, this book puts Marx, Brecht, Rilke and David Mitchell together, teases ghost stories from ancient landscapes and haunted houses, and even gets grumpy materialist Theodor Adorno together with wide-eyed spiritualist Sir Oliver Lodge to meditate on the capacious possibilities bound up with ideas of social haunting. An absorbing, challenging read.' - Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck University of London, UK"Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory offers wide-ranging sociological analysis of ghosts and the places in which they appear. Unlike other volumes specializing in literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic reflections on ghosts, Hudson links their ephemeral appearance with rootedness in the social context of landscapes. […] Hudson mirrors the difficulties that the living face in trying to grasp and describe the social power of ghosts. The experience of being haunted by ghosts in certain places is difficult to pin down. Hudson is to be commended for an original, interdisciplinary analysis of social ghosts and landscapes that will be of interest to readers in sociology, memory studies, philosophy, cultural studies and literature." – Siobhan Kattago, Memory StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ghosts, landscapes and social memoryChapter 1. Ghost armies: Memory, landscape and social hauntingChapter 2. Dark caves: Prehistory and the origins of social ghostsChapter 3. Revolutionary spirits: Marx, Engels and catastropheChapter 4. Excavating spectres: Haunting and psychoanalysisChapter 5. Night spaces: The haunted houseChapter 6. Zong spectres: Ghosts of the slave systemChapter 7. Ghastly fictions: Writing the catastropheChapter 8. Nightvisiting songs: Performing the deadChapter 9. Spectral machines: Seeing social ghostsChapter 10. Conclusions: Arrivals from the futureReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums is a practice-based guide that is designed to introduce qualitative research to established and upcoming museum professionals and increase their confidence to conduct this type of research.Highlighting the work of researchers who are studying museums around the world, the book begins by explaining why there is a need for qualitative research in museums. Rowson Love and Randolph then go on to provide guidance, including theories and frameworks, on how to envision a qualitative research project that facilitates meaningful interpretation of visitor experiences. Chapters in the methodology section begin with descriptions of featured qualitative methodologies and will assist readers as they determine which are most appropriate for their projects and as they advocate for their research. The final section will prepare readers still further by demonstrating data analysis and reporting using the examples in the book.<

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Book SynopsisThe Museum in Asia advances an understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of conceptual tools and frameworks through which museum development can be analysed and understood.Informed by the key theoretical tenets of critical museology and heritage studies, this volume seeks to deconstruct the idea of museology and the museum phenomenon in East, South and Southeast Asia to identify common themes and trends unique to Asia. Drawing on case studies from ten different countries in Asia, including China and India, it proffers a set of analytical tools to think through how we can understand and conceptualise the study of museums and museology in Asia. Contributions to this edited volume are drawn from both Asian and Western academic contexts, thus offering both âinsideâ and âoutsideâ perspectives on the museum phenomenon in Asia.The Museum in Asia is the first academic book to explore the museum phenomenon in Asia from theoretical perspectives informed by critical museology and heritage studies, making it an essential text for the teaching of courses relating to museum studies, cultural heritage studies or Asian studies. Academics, students and professionals who are interested in learning more about the theory behind the museum phenomenon in Asia will find this book to be a useful resource.

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Book SynopsisMuseums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies. Bringing together 16 contributors from eight countries, this book has emerged from the significant global dialogue concerning museums' obligation to be inclusive, participate in meaningful engagement and advocate for social change. As part of the push for museums to be more accessible and inclusive, museums have been challenged to critically examine their power relationships and how these are played out in what they collect, whose stories they exhibit and who is made to feel welcome in their halls. This volume will further this professional and academic debate through the discussion of class. Contributions to the book will also reinforce the importance of the working class  not only in collection and exhibition policy, but also for the organisational psychology of institutionTable of ContentsIntroduction - ‘Which Side Are You On'? Towards Meaningful Attention to Class in MuseumsAdele ChynowethPart I - Shut Out: Access and the Working Class 1. ‘A Permanent Civilising Effect’? The Impact of Reforming Working-Class Museum Visitors in Liverpool during the Nineteenth CenturyAlexander Scott 2. How British Museums Have Failed the Working ClassDavid Fleming 3. Seat of the Muses or the Moolah? New Working Class Demands on Elitist Archival PracticesSilvio Tamaso D’Onofrio Part II - Shut Up: the Struggle to End the Silence4. ‘One and All’? Retrieving South Australia’s Forgotten Labor History Philip Payton 5. ‘Go and Take a Look at Millie Now’: Murder, Tattooed Remains, and Museum Ethics in QuebecJamie Jelinksi 6. Museums in Late Populist Democracies: the Photographic Archive and the Working Class Paolo Magagnoli 7. Women´s Work in Coastal Galicia: Shining a Light on the Unseen at the Marea MuseumJosé Manuel Vázquez Lijó Part III - Know Your Place: Site-Specific Narratives8. Erasure of Working-Class Heritage in Conservation Plans: Absent Presence in the Walled City of LahoreRabia Nadir 9. Eugene V. Debs' Museum and the Preservation of Radical Working-Class Political Memory Wesley R. Bishop 10. Keeping Your Head Down at the Hyde Park Barracks MuseumAdele Chynoweth 11. From Factory to Museum: The Obliteration of the History of Resistance Meral Akbaş and Özge Kelekçi Part IV- Answering Back: Lessons from the Working and Poverty Classes12. Looking Backwards, Planning Forward: ‘Museum as Muck’ Advocating for the Working Class in Museums Michelle McGrath, in conversation with Adele Chynoweth 13. Changing Lives at the Scottish Maritime MuseumMartin Hughes 14. House of Memories: Care and Equality in the UK Museum SectorKerry Wilson 15. Ngintaka Songline Tracks in the MuseumDiana James

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Book SynopsisMuseums and Nationalism in Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey draws attention to museums as political productions of the nation-state and shows how they can be shaped by the political forces that rule a country. Drawing on case studies and interviews from Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey, the book investigates how the past has been exploited to serve the interests of nationalism in the twenty-first century, and how museums themselves are exploited to serve nationalist ideologies. Posocco argues that, in a world of nation-states where nationalism is the dominant ideology, all museums are national museums, even when they aren''t. In this perspective, they can (and do, in the case studies under analysis in this book) become the cultural offshoots of political wars, places where the national past is contested, rewritten, and sometimes even created from scratch, and finally exhibited. Paying particular attention to the decision-making and economic aspects of the Table of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Nationalism’s Way Through the Museum; Chapter 1. Nationalism and the Museum; Chapter 2. Methodology; Chapter 3. Nationalism and Museums in Hungary; Chapter 4. Nationalism and Museums in Turkey; Chapter 5. Nationalism and Museums in Croatia; Chapter 6. Final Thoughts; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWelcoming Young Children into the Museum provides all of the information practitioners need to consider when making the decision to engage with this audience and their carers. Meeting the reader where they are, this guide enables professionals to work toward outcomes that fit with their needs.Working methodically from the initial stages of bringing staff on board, through to implementation and evaluation, readers are carefully steered through each phase. Big-picture needs, like adherence to mission, are considered alongside logistical components, like cleaning schedules, to ensure that museums cater to young children in a way that is beneficial to both the visitors and the institution. Drawing on current neurological research and best practices in early childhood education and development, this guide presents case studies from a variety of different institutions around the world that demonstrate that creating interesting, developmentally appropriate opportunities forTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Young Children in Museums?; 1. Reflection and Research: Preparing the Ground; 2. Early Childhood Education: Laying the Foundation; 3. Physical Environment and Available Information: Leveling the Floor; 4. Program Planning: Framing the Walls; 5. Making Exhibits for Young Children: Designing the Interior; 6. Staff Training: Making a House a Home; 7. Reflection and Review: Why This is All Worth It; Appendix A: Story Time Resources; Appendix B: Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Learning Resources; Appendix C: Selected Resources

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that underpins this practice, with a view to outlining new roles for museums within community health and social care.This book engages with the recent growing focus on community participation in museum activities, notably in the area of health and wellbeing. It explores this theme through an analysis of the practices of community engagement workers at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in the UK. It examines how this work is operationalised and valued in the museum, and the institutional barriers to this practice. It presents the practices of care that shape community-led exhibitions, and community engagement projects involving health and social care partners and their clients. Drawing on the ethics of care and geographies of care literatures, this text provides readers with novel perspectives for transforming the museum into Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The Participatory Turn in Museums 2. The Problem of Engagement Part 2: The Institutional Life of Community Engagement Workers 3. The Language of Community Engagement 4. Managing Community Engagement Part 3: The Emotional Life of Community Engagement Workers 5. Community Engagement as Care Work 6. Curatorial Work and Care Part 4: Social Care in The Museum 7. The Museum as a Space of Social Care

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the authentication of authenticity in heritage tourism by using a resilient smart systems approach. It discusses the emerging trends in cultural tourism and outlines, in a detailed manner, their significance in negotiating authenticity in tourism experience.Authentication of authenticity is an evolving, less-researched field of inquiry in heritage tourism. This book advances research on this subject by exploring different authentication processes and scrutinizes their resilience in building transformative heritage tourism pathways. It offers a kaleidoscopic view of the manner authenticity has evolved over the last several decades by observing a broad spectrum of cultural expressions. The evolution and meaningfulness of negotiated authenticity is identified and discussed in the context of pre-, intra- and post-pandemic times. This book focuses on the moral and existentialist trajectories or authenticity and the notion of self-authentication. It pTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Negotiated Authenticity and its Vulnerability 3. The Authentication and its Authenticating Process 4. Information and Communication Technology and Digitalization in Heritage Tourism 5. Smart and Sustainable Marketing Frameworks for Heritage Tourism 6. Negotiated Authentication of Heritage Accommodations 7. Negotiated Authentication of Homestay Tourism 8. Negotiating Authentication of Nation Branding and Heritage Tourism 9. Negotiated Authentication of Museums 10. Negotiated Authentication of Ethnic Cuisines 11. Negotiated Authentication of Heritage Souvenirs 12. Conceptualizing a Smart Resilient Negotiated Authentication System in Transformative Times

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Book SynopsisDecolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary history, diplomacy, museum practice, the visual arts and self-generated memorial expressions in public spaces. The comparative focus of the chapters includes examples of internal colonization in Europe and extends to former European colonies, among them Shanghai, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Examining practices in a range of different contexts, the book pays particular attention to sub-national actors whose work is opening up new futures through their engagement with decolonial heritage practices in the present. The vTable of ContentsLists of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Haunted Worlds: Ghosts of the Colonial Past: Chapter 1: Europe and Its Entangled Colonial Pasts: Europeanizing the ‘Imperial Turn; Chapter 2: 1917, Brexit and Imperial Nostalgia: A Longing for the Future; Chapter 3: Spectres of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town; Chapter 4: Decolonizing the Narrative of Portuguese Empire: Life Stories of African Presence, Heritage and Memory; Chapter 5: Decolonizing Warsaw: The Multiple Afterlives of ‘Ali’; Part II: Contemporary Heritage Practices: New Agents, Urban Space Events, Intercultural Encounters: (i) Museums and curatorship: Chapter 6: Curating Colonial Heritage in Amsterdam, Warsaw and Shanghai’s Museums: No Single Road to Decolonization; Chapter 7: The Influence of Western Colonial Culture on Shanghai: A Case Study of the ‘Modern Shanghai’ Exhibition at the Shanghai History Museum; Chapter 8: Decolonizing Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019), The Turning Point of Curatorship; (ii) Echoes of colonial heritage, visual culture and site-specific art: Chapter 9: Sensitive Memories at a World Heritage Site: Silencing and Resistance at the Valongo Wharf; Chapter 10: Traces of Contempt and Traces of Self-Esteem: Deconstructing our Toxic Colonial Legacy; Chapter 11: Reframing the Colonial in Postcolonial Lisbon: Placemaking and the Aestheticization of Interculturality; Chapter 12: Aesthetics and Colonial Heritage: An Interview with Artists Based in Marseille; Chapter 13: Enslaved Bodies, Entangled Sites and the Memory of Slavery in Cape Town: The Meeting of the Dead and the Living; Part III:Imagining Decolonial Futures: Chapter 14: Decolonial Countervisuality; Chapter 15: New Diplomacy and Decolonial Heritage Practices; Chapter 16: Decolonial Voices, Colonialism and the Limits of European Liberalism: The European Question Revisited; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe conservation of skin, leather and related materials is an area that, until now, has had little representation by the written word in book form. Marion Kite and Roy Thomson, of the Leather Conservation Centre, have prepared a text which is both authoritative and comprehensive, including contributions from the leading specialists in their fields, such as Betty Haines, Mary Lou Florian, Ester Cameron and Jim Spriggs.The book covers all aspects of Skin and Leather preservation, from Cuir Bouillie to Bookbindings. There is significant discussion of the technical and chemical elements necessary in conservation, meaning that professional conservators will find the book a vital part of their collection. As part of the Butterworth-Heinemann Black series, the book carries the stamp of approval of the leading figures in the world of Conservation and Museology, and as such it is the only publication available on the topic carrying this immediate Table of ContentsIntroduction; Dedication; Foreward; The nature and properties of leather; Collagen: the leather making protein; The fibre structure of leather; The chemistry of tanning materials; The mechanisms of deterioration in leather; Testing leathers and related materials; The manufacture of leather; The social position of leatherworks; Gilt leather; Cuir bouilli; The tools and techniques of leathermaking; General principles of conservation; Materials and techniques: past and present; Taxidermy; Furs and furriery: history, techniques and conservation; The conservation of exotic, feathered and aquatic skins; Ethnographic leather and skin products; Collagen products, glues, gelatine, gut membrane and sausage casings; The manufacture of parchment; The conservation of parchment; The conservation of leather bookbindings: a mosaic of contemporary techniques; The conservation of archaeological leather; Case histories

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Book SynopsisGoto introduces the diverse and multilayered skylore and cultural astron- omy of the peoples of the Japanese Archipelago.Going as far back as the Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods, this book examines the significance of constellations in the daily life of farmers, fishermen, sailors, priests, and the ruling classes throughout Japan's ancient and medieval history. As well as covering the systems of the dominant Japanese people, he also explores the astronomy of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, and of the people of the Ryukyu Islands. Along the way he discusses the importance of astronomy in official rituals, mythol- ogy, and Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies.This book provides a unique overview of cultural astronomy in Japan and is a valuable resource for researchers as well as anyone who is inter- ested in Japanese culture and history.Table of Contents1. Japanese People and Stars: Cultural Astronomy and Star Lore of the Japanese 2. Stars in Mythology and Classical Literature 3. Star Lore of the Hokkaido Ainu 4. Ethnoastronomy in the Ryukyu Islands 5. Archaeoastronomy of Prehistoric Japan: A Historical Survey 6. Fallen Star Legends in Japanese Folk Beliefs 7. Cosmology Seen in House and Burial Orientation of the Hokkaido Ainu, Northern Japan 8. The Sun and the Kingdom of Ryukyu: An Ethnohistorical Approach to State Formation 9. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisMuseums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded to and been shaped by war and conflicts of various sorts. Written by a mixture of museum professionals and academics and ranging across Europe, North America and the Middle East, this book examines the many ways in which museums were affected by major conflicts such as the World Wars, considers how and why they attempted to contribute to the war effort, analyses how wartime collecting shaped the nature of the objects held by a variety of museums, and demonstrates how museums of war and of the military came into existence during this period. Closely focused around conflicts which had the most wide-ranging impact on museums, this collection includes reflections on museums such as the Louvre, the Stedelijk in the Netherlands, the Canadian War Museum and the State Art Collections Dresden.Museums, Modernity anTable of ContentsIntroduction: Museums and War Kate HillPart I: Collecting and Conflict1.Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71)’Thomas Stammers2. Treasure, Triumph and Trespass: The Place of Conflict in the Collecting and Display of "Priam’s Treasure"Zoe Mercer-GoldenPart II: Keeping going? Museums during War3. The evacuation and management of the Louvre Museum’s Near Eastern Antiquities department during World War IIZoe Vannier4.Implementing Preventive Strategies Between World War I and II: Catalan Art Museums and the Spanish Civil WarEva MarchPart III: Propaganda, Morale and Resistance5. "The present is pretty terrible, the future is unknown, the past is the only stable thing to which we can turn": Philip Ashcroft, Rufford Village Museum and the preservation of rural life and tradition during the Second World WarBridget Yates6. Museum without objects? The State Art Collections in Dresden during the Second World War Karin Mueller-Kelwing7.Exhibiting in wartime. Nazification and resistance in Dutch art exhibitionsEvelien ScheltingaPart IV: Museums of War and Conflict: Foundations and Disavowals8. Exhibiting Ravensbrück: from the "Museum of the Antifascist Fight" to the "Museum of the History and Memory of the women's concentration camp"Doreen Pastor9. "Flight without feathers is not easy": John Tanner and the development of the Royal Air Force MuseumPeter Elliott10. "We are a social history, not a military history museum": large objects and the ‘peopling’ of galleries in the Imperial War Museum, LondonKasia Tomasiewicz11. ‘War Stories: The Art and Memorials Collection at the Canadian War Museum’Sarafina Pagnotta

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Book SynopsisMuseum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book to analyse the recent upsurge in museums on Chinese diasporas in China. Examining heritage-making beyond the nation state, the book provides a much-needed, critical examination of China's engagement with its diasporic communities. Drawing on fieldwork in more than ten museums, as well as interviews with museum practitioners and archival study, Wang offers a timely analysis of the complex ways in which Chinese diasporas are represented in the museum space of China, the ancestral homeland. Arguing that diasporic heritage is highly ambivalent and introducing a diasporic perspective to the study of cultural heritage, this book opens up a new avenue of inquiry into the study and management of cultural heritage in China and beyond. Most importantly, perhaps, Wang sheds new light on the dynamic between China and Chinese diasporas through the lens of the museum.Museum Representations of ChiTrade Review"Museums of diaspora are increasingly present in countries of migrant settlement overseas, but also in sending or ancestral places. It is the latter sort that this excellent, deeply original, clearly written, and richly researched interdisciplinary study describes and analyses, with China and its officially sponsored and funded "Overseas Chinese museums" as its focus. Its author … brings together his research into a well organised and exhaustive volume …  As he rightly points out … it is urgently necessary to integrate museum studies and migration history, and to establish a new focus away from migrants as an abstracted category and towards the material environment in which they move and on which they act." Gregor Benton, The China Quarterly"Since the 1980s, ‘Oversea Chinese museums’ have been rapidly developing around China. Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book dedicated to this social, political, and cultural phenomenon … Wang calls for further cross-disciplinary research on the three interrelated fields of diasporas, museums, and cultural heritage in China. The cross-fertilization between the three fields is a major contribution of the book. Wang provides a rich in-depth analysis, filling a lacuna in museum, migration, and heritage studies in China." Yujie Zhu, The China Journal"Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas persuasively interrogates what huaqiaowenwu (overseas Chinese heritage) is and how it is understood in China … Crucially, the book complicates the static and single dimensional portrayal of museums by shedding light on the multifarious interpretations of the past that the museum founders and buildings themselves engage in … more interdisciplinary scholarship, such as Wang’s, that is mutually constitutive of the migrant and the material world of migration is needed internationally to debunk the common nationalist emphasis associated with emigration histories and migrant heritage … a useful reference that has implications both for critical heritage studies in China and countries with histories of emigration outside China." Christopher Cheng, Asian and Pacific Migration JournalTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The Symbolic Museum Chapter 1 The birth of the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China Chapter 2 The representation of the Chinese diasporas as a ‘national self/other’ Part II: The Branding MuseumChapter 3 Negotiating ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ authentication in diasporic heritage-making at a qiaoxiangChapter 4 Repatriation of Chinese cultural relics as a site for place-making and identity constructionPart III: The Memory MuseumChapter 5 The stamp of identities: negotiating diasporic Chinese subjectivity in philatelic spaceChapter 6 How does a house remember? Materialising memories of return migration at a huaqiao farm Part IV: The Im/possible MuseumChapter 7 The im/possibility of museumifying the Chinese diasporas in South ChinaConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. Exhbitions covered include Nathaniel Honeâs 1775 exhibition, the Holbein Exhibition of 1871, the Courbet retrospective of 1882, Titian's exhibition in Venice, Poussin's Louvre retrospective of 1960, and El Greco's anniversaty exhibitions of 2014. Trade Review"All in all, Gahtan and Pegazzano have put together an excellent volume in which the authors have contributed a great deal of valuable art historical and museological content for our consideration. It is a book that will undoubtedly inspire further research by others, stimulate scholarly discourse, and lead to future publications of import."-Journal of Art Historiography

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Book SynopsisPractitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field. Summarising the major changes that have taken place over the last two decades, the book explores ongoing debates and changes in thinking about best practice.Drawing on the author's own experience of operationalising the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in a variety of contexts, Orr also incorporates international case studies from practitioners and provides valuable insights about best practices. Demonstrating that the top-down, state-driven hierarchy for the safeguarding of heritage is starting to shift to a model of shared ownership and values driven by communities and practitioners, the book shows that the notion of the expert' is also diversifying to include other forms of transmission of traditional knowledge. Orr argues that these different perspectives provide a platform to enrich undeTable of ContentsChapter One – Introduction; Chapter Two - UNESCO, 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the Role of NGOs; Chapter Three – UNESCO Conventions and Recent Changes in the 2003 Convention; Chapter Four - Intellectual Property Rights: Commodification, Creative Industry, and Inclusive Growth; Chapter Five- Sustainable Development and ICH; Chapter Six- The Challenges of Putting the Safeguarding of ICH into Practice; Chapter Seven- Safeguarding ICH in Emergencies; Chapter Eight - ICH in the Museum Context; Chapter Nine- ICH: Repatriation and Decolonisation; Chapter Ten- Final Thoughts on ICH and Our Shared Future; Useful Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns.The first part looks at the befores everyday places such as daily markets, flea markets, urban neighbourhoods, that have captured the tourists' interest and have progressively experienced new development in their ordinary patterns. The second part investigates the afters former tourist spaces moving beyond the tourism sphere and becoming places of everyday life, study, or work. Chapters explore what this means for local societies and examine this contemporary phenomenon of former tourist attractions becoming ordinary and everyday, and of ordinary places beginning to take on a tourist dimension. The hybridisation of tourist practices and ordinary practices is also explored through a range of international case studies and examples written by highly regarded and interdisciplinary academics.This ediTable of ContentsIntroduction: New urban tourists: in search of the life more ordinary 1. Before and After Tourism : How spaces “enter” and “exit” tourism? Part 1: Befores 2. Tourism of the ordinary in Paris: an unstaged proposed by the inhabitants 3. Shopping as a tourist spectacle. How Paris’s shops blur the edges between tourists, foreign residents and Parisians 4. The emergence of co-production tourism beyond commercial tourism? 5. The invention of the ordinary city as a heritage and tourist place: the case of a new town, Cergy-Pontoise, France 6. Feeling home, promoting home: cultural heritage, community building and participatory tourism in Barriera di Milano (Turin, Italy) 7. Post-socialist cities and the tourism of the ordinary 8. New approaches to urban tourism: living with a “big worm” in central São Paulo (Brazil) 9. The hybridisation of tourism policies: between the development of seaside resorts and the promotion of “ordinary” urban and industrial development: The case of Martigues, a coastal town in the South of France Part 2: Afters 10. Reassembling spatio-temporalities of tourism in the Upper Black Forest 11. From Tourism to Art of Living? Residential utopia and after-tourism in the French Alps 12. The emergence of new “in-between” places in the context of “after-tourism” in Moroccan medina: The example of riads in the medina of Fez 13. Post-tourism and the Aquitaine coast: the fading concept of tourism accommodation 14. The changing role of tourism-oriented theme parks as everyday entertainment venues during COVID-19 15. Tourist wasteland: a “cold” time opening up possibilities of territorial redefinitions

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Book SynopsisThe Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital cultural heritage concepts and their application to data, developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human museology for a contemporary and future world. Presenting a diverse range of case examples from around the globe, Cameron offers a critical and philosophical reflection on the ways in which digital cultural heritage is currently framed as societal data worth passing on to future generations in two distinct forms: digitally born and digitizations. Demonstrating that most perceptions of digital cultural heritage are distinctly western in nature, the book also examines the complicity of such heritage in climate change, and environmental destruction and injustice. Going further still, the book theorizes the future of digital data, heritage, curation and the notion of the human in the context of the profusion of new types of societal data and production processes driven by theTrade Review'In this highly prescient and original account, Fiona Cameron interrogates the vexed future custodianship of digital data. By bringing her incisive cultural heritage studies knowledge to bear on our rapidly increasing entanglement with the born-digital archive of objects, data and media, The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation advances a powerful conceptual framework for the curation and conservation of potentially every utterance of our private and public worlds: "Strikingly, digital data as heritage is not just the new fabric of human life, it is radically embedded in the vast and sprawling ecological circumstances of life itself."' Hannah Lewi, The University of Melbourne, Australia"This book offers an innovative new approach to digital cultural heritage. This is a fast moving but under-examined topic, but Fiona Cameron’s approach is different, focusing right in on central contemporary issues, using an up to the minute conceptual framework, engaging closely with museum theory and practice, and enlivened by lots of illustrations, examples, case studies and useful applications, everything from AI, Trump’s tweets, and sex bots to digitisation, informatics and museum CMS. In contrast to old fashioned humanist, materialist, Eurocentric approaches, Cameron argues that we have to understand digital cultural heritage through a lens which is ecological, post-humanist, and ‘more than human’. The idea of ‘eco-curating’ is a striking environmentalist/relational/networked reformulation of conventional curating as we know it."Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Introduction: Refiguring digital cultural heritage and curation; 2. The official birth of digital data as universal heritage; 3. Digital data as the heritage of the modern world; 4. Object concepts in digital cultural heritage; 5. From objects to ecological formations; 6. Digital data and artifactual production; 7. Curating inside the archive and out in the world; 8. The rise of more-than-human digital heritage in the Technosphere; 9. Conclusion: Framing a more-than-human digital museology

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the broad landscape of current and future out-of-school science learning environments. Written by leading experts and innovators in informal science learning, these thoughtful and critical essays examine the changing nature of informal institutions such as science museums, zoos, nature centers, planetariums, aquaria, and botanical gardens and their impact on science education. The book examines the learning opportunities and challenges created by community-based experiences including citizen science, makerspaces, science media, escape rooms, hobby groups, and gaming. Based on current practices, case studies, and research, the book focuses on four cross-cutting themes inclusivity, digital engagement, community partnerships, and bridging formal and informal learning to examine how people learn science informally.The book will be of interest to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) educators both in and out of school desigTable of ContentsPART I: Exhibits and Informal Science Learning 1. Transforming Learning Landscapes: A Radical Model for Informal Science Learning 2. What About AIDS? The Case of the National AIDS Exhibit Consortium and its Traveling Exhibition 3. Designing for Diversity 4. Origin of Interactive Science Centres and the Status of Science Centres in the Middle East 5. Helping Young Children Make Conceptual Connections in a Science Museum 6. How Planetariums Offer Diverse Opportunities to Engage a Broad Audience in STEM 7. Now it’s Africa’s Turn: The Status and Potential of Science Centres and Informal Science Education Initiatives on the ‘Bright Continent’ 8. Teachers as Designers: Learning by Exhibit Prototyping PART II: Engaged with Earth Stewardship 9. Salmon Camp: The Design of an Immersive Science Education Program for Native American Youth 10. Cultivating Sustainability: Youth Food Systems & STEM Learning 11. Wild Hearts: Exploring the Connection between STEM Learning and Conservation Psychology in Zoos and Aquariums 12. Out-of-School Science Education Institutions for Sustainability 13. Informal Learning through Citizen Science: Authentic, Meaningful, Impactful 14. From School-based Citizen Science to Transition-driven Activism with the Community 15. Where You Stand and Why You Stand There: Cultural Competency as a Lens for Understanding Climate Change in the Minds of Rural Pennsylvania Fairgoers PART III: Places and Spaces for Informal Science Learning 16. Libraries are for Science 17. Night Skies and Butterflies: Leisure Science Activities and STEM Interests 18. Chemical Escape Rooms: Bridging the Gap between Formal and Informal Science Learning 19. STEM Applied Learning Programme: Infusing the Formal with the Informal 20. Equitable Access to Making through Public Libraries 21. The Street Code Project: Computational Literacy and the Performing Arts 22. Bridging Informal Science Learning with Schools: The Open Schooling Model 23. Benefits of Engineering Beyond the School Day: Insights from Research 24. Digitally-Mediated Learning Modalities for Computational Thinking: Promises and Challenges for Informal STEAM Learning 25. Outdoor and Outreach: Informal Science Education Outside the Four Walls of Science Centers PART IV: Rethinking Informal Science Learning 26. Creating Awareness of the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Communication in Informal Science Settings Through an Indigenous Lens 27. On-Ramps to Where? 28. Fostering Youth STEM Identities Through Social Network Connections in Informal Science Settings 29. Speculative Design for STEM Learning 30. Limiting Claims about Museums, STEM, and Social Issues 31. The Virtuous Cycle of Affect, Engagement, and Learning 32. Data Narratives for Action: Innovative Approaches to Data Collection and Reporting to Tell the Story of Informal Science Learning 33. Should Science Centres Evict STEM? The 1960s Dream for Peace, Beauty, and Awe versus Cold War Pragmatism and Problem-solving 34. Reflections on 50 Years in the Science Center Profession

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries' shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations.At its 1976 opening, the Museum of London differed from other museums in its treatment of empire and colonialism as central to its galleries. In response to the public's evolving social and political attitudes, the museum's 19931994 The Peopling of London' exhibition marked a new approach in creating inclusive displays, which explore the impact of immigration and multiculturalism on British history. Through photos, planning documents, and archival research, this book analyses museums' role in enacting change in the public's understanding of history, and this book is the first to critically engage with the Museum of London's theme of empire, particularly in consideration of recent exhibitions.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Origin Story 1826-1976 1. Introduction: Museums and Empire 2. Prelude to the Museum of London, its origins in the Guildhall and London Museums 1826-1976 3. Empire at the Museum of London, 1976 Part 2: The ‘Peopling of London’ 1993-1994 4. The ‘Peopling of London’ 1989-1993 Concept and Approach 5. The ‘Peopling of London’ 1993-1994 Exhibition and Displays 6. The ‘Peopling of London’ Catalogue and Educational Resources Part 3: Reception and Legacy of ‘Peopling’ 1994-2007 7. Understanding Visitor Responses 8. The Spirit of ‘Peopling’ 1993-2007, Legacies and Echoes 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries' shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations.At its 1976 opening, the Museum of London differed from other museums in its treatment of empire and colonialism as central to its galleries. In response to the public's evolving social and political attitudes, the museum's 19931994 The Peopling of London' exhibition marked a new approach in creating inclusive displays, which explore the impact of immigration and multiculturalism on British history. Through photos, planning documents, and archival research, this book analyses museums' role in enacting change in the public's understanding of history, and this book is the first to critically engage with the Museum of London's theme of empire, particularly in consideration of recent exhibitions.

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Book SynopsisThis volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation: vertical fragmentation and horizontal fragmentation. It offers a series of case studies of conflict and post-conflict collective memory, shedding light on the ways various actors participate in the production, dissemination, and contestation of memory discourses.With attention to the characteristics of both vertical and horizontal memory fragmentation, the book addresses the plurality of diverging, and often conflicting, memory discourses that are produced within the public sphere of a given community. It analyzes the juxtaposition, tensions, and interactions between narratives produced beyond or below the central state, often transcending national boundaries.The book is structured according to the type of actors involved in a memory fragmentation process. It explores how states have been trying to produce and impose memory discourses on civil socTable of ContentsTable of contents Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Introduction: "Memory fragmentation" as a new heuristic tool to grasp the dynamics of political uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings Civil society actors Stipe Odak: Construction of Victimhood and its Fragmentation within National Frameworks Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Gender, Memory and Peace: Struggles between Homogenisation and Fragmentation Elise Féron: Conflict memories and gender-based violence: from silencing to standardization Elise Julien: The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: a century of memory negotiations in Germany Thomas Serrier: Pluralism at stake: Rebelling provinces and the national master narrative in the German-Polish memories after the end of the Cold War Delphine Griveaud & Solveig Hennebert: The PSG Ultras’ annual commemoration of the 13 November 2015 terrorist attacks: a window on collective memory Historians Sandra Rios Oyola: The Fragmentation of Historical Memory in Colombia Emmanuelle Hébert: Transforming Polish-German Past: Toward a common narrative? Valentin Behr: When historians contribute to the fragmentation of memories: The case of "Polish-Jewish relations" during World War II Soldiers and military organizations Mathias Delori: Understanding the fragmentation of the memory of the Allied bombings of World War II: The role of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey Christophe Wasinski: Present wars as catalysts of fragmented memories of past wars: the use of the Algerian War in the context of the French deployment in Afghanistan Eric Sangar: "Hurra, wir können’s noch!": How NATO’s counterinsurgency doctrine uncovered German civil-military memory fragmentation Antoine Younsi: "Paying a blood debt" or "Liberating Africa"? The postcolonial fragmentation of French military and political memory frames during the Operation Serval in Mali (2013-2014) Transnational organizations Valérie Rosoux: Can NGOs do away with the ‘tyranny of the past’? Strategies against memory fragmentation in Rwanda Thomas Richard: ANNA News as a transnational memory entrepreneur? Uses of the Past in the Coverage of the Syrian Civil War by Russian-language media Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Conclusion: overall findings and implications for the heuristic and normative value of "memory fragmentation"

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Book SynopsisClimatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material.Acknowledging the diversity of human cultural heritage across collecting institutions, heritage sites and communities, the book highlights how, in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the quest to preserve such precious knowledge relies on records and narratives being available to inform decisions now and into the future. Bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders who have an interest in and responsibility for the care of cultural heritage material and places of cultural heritage value, the book explores their thinking on and actions in relation to issues of climate change and environmental risk. Sloggett and Scott highlight the stakeholders' shared interest in drawing on their expertise to meet the challenges that environmental change brings to the future of our cultural heTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 The Story of Climate Change: Narratives as influencers; Chapter 2 Finding unexpected data from the historical record; Chapter 3 My Country is Changing: Indigenous perspectives on climate change; Chapter 4 Climate change and rock art: a valuable resource at risk; Chapter 5 Oral histories of natural disasters in Timor Leste; Chapter 6 Changed responses to the changing threat of climate-induced fire and drought; Chapter 7 The Local in the Global: community impact and response; Chapter 8 Issues for Institutions: the imperative for heritage organisations to lead the way; Chapter 9 Conservation Education and Climate Change: What would a resilience-based conservation curriculum look like?; Epilogue; Index.

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Book SynopsisMuseums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective. The essential thesis of the book is that well-being is a collective action.The book utilises the Five Ways to Well-being as a model: Connect, Be Active, Keep Learning, Give and Take Notice. Each of these Ways are explored through a specific museum object illustrating the important role collections can play in museum well-being. The book considers how museum well-being, and the austerity project became entwined, and how the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged growth in this field. The book explores such diverse topics as walking, slow art, social capital, Virginia Woolf, body positivity, collective joy, identity, art therapy, yoga, Squid Game, Effective Altruism, mindfulness, gift exchange, the Preston model, the limits of data, sketching, photography, inclusive spaces, and workplace well-being. The bookTable of Contents01 Introduction; 02 Why Well-being Now?; 03 Museums as Spaces of Well-being; 04 Work and the Limitations of Well-being; 05 Introduction to the Five Ways to Well-being Toolkit; 06 Connect; 07 Be Active; 08 Keep Learning; 09 Give; 10 Take Notice; 11 Conclusion: So where to start?; Index.

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Book SynopsisEvaluating Early Learning in Museums presents developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant practices for engaging early learners and their families in informal arts settings.Written by early childhood education researchers and a museum practitioner, the book showcases what high-quality educational programs can offer young children and their families through the case study of a program at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Providing strategies for building strong community partnerships and audience relationships, the authors also survey evaluation tools for early learning programs and offer strategies to help museums around the world to engage young children. At the center of this narrative is the seminal partnership that developed between researchers and museum educators during the evaluation of a program for toddlers. Illuminating key components of the partnership and the resulting evolution of family offerings at the museum, the book also draws paraTable of ContentsIntroduction: ​Early Learning in the Context of the Museum 1.Young Children in Museums Today 2. Families and the High Museum of Art 3. Improving the Museum for Families: Program Evaluation 4. Reshaping Early Learning and Experiences in High Museum 5. Building and Improving Early Learning in Your Museum Conclusion: What’s Next?

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Book SynopsisMuseums, Refugees and Communities explores the ways in which museums in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK have responded to the complexities and ethical dilemmas involved in discussing the reasons for, and issues surrounding, contemporary refugee displacements.Building upon an ethnographic study carried out in the UK with refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the book explores how object-led approaches can inspire new ways of thinking about and analysing refugeesâ experiences and European museumsâ work with their communities. Enlarging the developing body of research on museumsâ increasing engagement with human rights and focusing in particular on the social, cultural and practical dimensions of community engagement practices with refugees, the book also aims to inform growing debates on museums as sites of activism. Museums, Refugees and Communities offers an innovative and interdisciplinary examination of museum work with and about refugees. As such, it should appeal to researchers, academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, migration, ethics, community engagement, culture, sociology and anthropology.Table of Contents1.Museums, Refugees and Communities; 2.The ‘dirty Work’ of Boundary Maintenance; 3. Pathos and Agency in Museums’ Refugee Work; 4. Materialities of Exile; 5.Politics and Practices of Engagement Work with Refugees; 6. Objects and Belonging; 7. The Body of Objects; 8. Conclusions: Tomorrow’s Forced Migration Heritage

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Book SynopsisExhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as knowledge-in-the-making rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights. Analysing the theoretical underpinnings and practical challenges of such an approach, the book questions whether it is possible to exhibit knowledge that is still in the making, whilst also considering which concepts of knowledge apply to such a format. The book also considers what the role of audience might be if research is extended into the exhibition itself. Providing concrete case studies of projects where museum professionals have approached exhibition making as a knowledge-generating process, the book considers tools of application and the challenges that might emerge from pursuing such an approach. Theoretically, the volume analyses the emergence of exhibitions as research as part of recent developments within materialitTable of ContentsIntroduction: Exhibitions as research - Peter BjerregaardPart I Cross-disciplinary collaboration Chapter 1 Sketches for a methodology on exhibition research - Henrik TreimoChapter 2 Joining transdisciplinary forces to revive the past: Establishing a Viking Garden at the Natural History Museum, Oslo - Anneleen Kool and Axel Dalberg PoulsenChapter 3 Ethnography, exhibition practices and undiscipined encounters: The generative work of amulets in London - Nathalia Brichet and Frida HastrupPart II Sensing knowledgeChapter 4 Exhibitions as philosophical carpentry: On object-oriented exhibitio- making - Adam BencardChapter 5 Museum objects in the marketplace - Kari K. AarrestadChapter 6 Exhibition-making as aesthetic enquiry - Peter BjerregaardChapter 7 Object-spaces? Sensory engagements and museum experiments - Elizabeth Hallam Part III Collaborating with audiencesChapter 8 Exhibitions, engagement and provocation: From Future Animals to Guerilla Archaeology - Jacqui MulvilleChapter 9 Developing and promoting research in a museum thirdspace: Breaking barriers where people walk - Ellen T. Bøe, Hege I. Hollund, Grete Lillehammer, Bente Ruud, Paula U. SandvikChapter 10 Visitor dialogue and participation as knowledge generating practices in exhibition work: What can museum experts learn from it? - Guro JørgensenChapter 11 How the exhibition became co-produced: Attunement and participatory ontologies for museums - Helen Graham

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Book SynopsisThis collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on the efforts that seek to safeguard them. Exploring a global range of case studies, the book considers the diverse perspectives currently involved with intangible cultural heritage and presents a rich picture of the geographic, socioeconomic and political contexts impacting research in this area. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, public servants, professionals, students and community members, this volume is also deeply enhanced by an interdisciplinary approach which draws on the theories and practices of heritage and museum studies, anthropology, folklore stuTrade Review"It is a most welcome addition to literature, and a must-have for all who want to deepen their understanding of the scholarly research into and safeguarding practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage. (...) With the publication of this Routledge Companion, Intangible Cultural Heritage has certainly reached a new level of scholarly recognition. And that is a very good thing."- Steven Engelsman, Director, Weltmuseum Wien, Austria"The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritgae provides asnapshop- or rather, a whole picture album- of the evolution of a profoundly important cultural policiy and paradigm[...] The editors have assembled here a massive and varied set of essays- 38 individual chapters written by 54 authors, including anthropologists, folklorists, legals scholars, museum professionals, ethomusicologists, and community members."- Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Michelle Stefano and Peter DavisA Decade Later: Critical Reflections on the UNESCO-ICH Paradigm1. Development of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention: Creating a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake2. The Examination of Nomination Files under the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Rieks Smeets and Harriet Deacon3. A Conversation with Richard Kurin4. Placing Intangible Cultural Heritage, Owing a Tradition, Affirming Sovereignty: the Role of Spatiality in the Practice of the 2003 Convention Chiara Bortolloto5. Is Intangible Cultural Heritage an Anthropological Topic? Towards Interdisciplinarity in France Christian Hottin and Sylvie Grenet6. The Impact of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on National Policy-making: Developing a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet BlakeReality Check: The Challenges Facing ICH Safeguarding7. From the Bottom Up: the Identification and Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guyana Aron Mazel, Gerard Corsane, Raquel Thomas and Samantha James8. Making the Past Pay? Intangible (Cultural) Heritage in South Africa and Mauritius Rosabelle Boswell9. A Conversation with Yelsy Hernández Zamora on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Cuba10. The Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China Tracey L-D Lu11. Ageing Musically: Tangible Sites of Intangible Cultural Heritage Bradley Hanson12. Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic: Between National and Local Heritage Petr Janeček13. Damming Ava Mezin: Challenges to Safeguarding Minority Intangible Cultural Heritage in Turkey Sarah Elliott14. Documenting and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Experience in Scotland Alison M

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Book SynopsisIn a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture.Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place.This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government.  For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to tTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I History and Theory; Chapter 1 The Formation of the Museum; Chapter 2 The Exhibitionary Complex; Chapter 3 The Political Rationality of the Museum; Part II Policies and Politics; Chapter 4 Museums and ‘The People’; Chapter 5 Out of Which Past?; Chapter 6 Art And Theory; Part III Technologies of Progress; Chapter 7 Museums and Progress; Chapter 8 The Shaping of Things to Come Expo ’88; Chapter 9 A Thousand and One Troubles;

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Book SynopsisThe 1980s and early 1990s have seen a marked increase in public interest in our historic environment. The museum and heritage industry has expanded as the past is exploited for commercial profit. In The Representation of the Past, Kevin Walsh examines this international trend and questions the packaging of history which serves only to distance people from their own heritage. A superficial, unquestioning portrayal of the past, he feels, separates us from an understanding of our cultural and political present. Here, Walsh suggests a number of ways in which the museum can fulfill its potential - by facilitating our comprehension of cultural identity.Trade Review`This book's greatest merit is the fact that it reports on the activities which are currently going on in museums to challenge the passive window-shopping approach to museum visits;...' - Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Idea of Modernity 2. Postmodern Societies I 3. Postmodern Societies II 4. Conserving a Past 5. Simulating the Past 6. Heritage Reconsidered 7. A Sense of Place 8. The Museum as a Facilitator 9. Conclusion:- The Remoteness of the Past

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Book SynopsisThis is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.This work explores such questions as: How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view? How do museums produce values? How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums? This stimulating book provokes debate and discussion on these topics and puts forward the idea of a new museum - the post-museum, which will challenge the familiar modernist museum. A must for students and professionals in the field.Table of Contents1 Culture and meaning in the museum 2 Picturing the ancestors and imagining the nation: the collections of the first decade of the National Portrait Gallery London 3 Speaking for herself? Hinemihi and her discourses, 4 Words and things: constructing narratives, constructing the self, 5 Objects and interpretive processes, 6 Exhinitions and interpretation: museum pedagogy and cultural change, 7 The rebirth of the museum.

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Book SynopsisLearning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums.Hein combines a brief history of education in public museums, with a rigorous examination of how the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky and subsequent theorists relate to learning in the museum.Surveying a wide range of research methods employed in visitor studies is illustrated with examples taken from museums around the world, Hein explores how visitors can best learn from exhibitions which are physically, socially, and intellectually accessible to every single visitor. He shows how museums can adapt to create this kind of environment, to provide what he calls the ''constructivist museum''.Providing essential theoretical analysis for students, this volume also serves as a practical guide for all museum professionals on how to adapt their museums tTable of Contents1. The Significance of Museum Education Introduction A Brief History of Museum Education The Significance of Education in Museums Definitions of Education Formal and Informal Education Education Within the Museum Profession Interpretations of Culture Museums in a Changing World Museums as Active Preservers of Culture Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the development of the consumer society and the rise of collecting by individuals and institutions. Rusell Belk considers how and why people collect, as individuals, corporations and museums, and the impact this collecting has on us and our culture.Collecting in a Consumer Society outlines the history of museum collecting from ancient civilizations to the present. It also looks at aspects of consumer culture - advertizing, department stores, mass merchandizing, consumer desires, and how this relates to the activity of collecting.Collecting in a Consumer Society is the first book to focus on collecting as material consumption. This is a provocative and engaging book, essential reading for anyone involved with the process of collecting.Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Rise of Consumer Society; Chapter 2 A Brief History of Collecting; Chapter 3 Individual Collectors; Chapter 4 Institutional Collectors; Chapter 5 Collecting in a Consumer Society;

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Book SynopsisThis very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards. This holistic approach will be immensely helpful to museums in meeting the needs and expectations of visitors and building their audience.  This book features: includes chapter introductions and discussion sections supporting case studies to show how ideas are put into practice a lavish selection of tables, figures and plates to support and illustrate the discussion boxes showing ideas, models and planning suggestions to guide development  an up-to-date bibliography of landmark research. The Engaging Museum offers a set oTrade Review"This is a well-researched, detailed book that presents much food for thought for museum managers and staff."-Collection Management,vol.30, no 4"...one of the greatest strengths of this book is the format itself. The text is supported with a range of boxes and other illustrative forms that serve to emphasise and break down key points: indeed a useful addition to a book that attempts to cover such a variety of themes...This book serves as a reader-friendly reference and is a very useful tool for museum and heritage professionals as well as students in relevant fields of study." - Dr Georgios Alexopoulos, University of YorkTable of ContentsPreface, Graham Black; Chapter 102 Introduction, Graham Black; Part 01 Museum audiences: their nature, needs and expectations, Graham Black; Chapter 1 ‘Traditional’ museum audiences: a quantitative and qualitative analysis, Graham Black; Chapter 2 Developing new audiences, Graham Black; Part 02 Operating for quality, Graham Black; Chapter 3 Stimulating the visit, Graham Black; Chapter 4 Visitor services: operating for quality, Graham Black; Part 03 Learning in museums, Graham Black; Chapter 5 Museums and lifelong learning, Graham Black; Chapter 6 Use of museums by schools, Graham Black; Part 04 Planned to engage, Graham Black; Chapter 7 Applying the principles of interpretation to museum display, Graham Black; Chapter 8 Interpretive master planning, Graham Black; Chapter 9 Concept development for museum galleries, Graham Black; Chapter 10 The engaging museum, Graham Black;

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance. The need to theorise learning and culture for a cultural theory of learning is very pressing. If culture acts as a process of signification, a means of producing meaning that shapes worldviews, learning in museums and other cultural organisations is potentially dynamic and profound, producing self-identities. How is this complexity to be measured'? What can this measurement' reveal about the character of museum-based learning? The calibration of culture is an international phenomenon, and the measurement of the outcomes and impact of learning in museums in England has provided a detailed case study. Three national eTable of Contents1. Museums: learning and culture 2. Calibrating culture 3. Conceptualising learning in cultural organisations 4. The Generic Learning Outcomes – an interpretive framework 5. The research programmes: background and method 6. The pattern of school use of museums 7. The value of museums for teachers 8. Pupils’ learning outcomes: teachers’ views 9. Pupils’ learning outcomes: pupils’ voices 10. The characteristics and significance of learning in museums 11. Learning in the post-museum: issues and challenges

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of intangible heritage' to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It provides an accessible account of the different ways in which intangible cultural heritage has been defined and managed in both national and international contexts, and aims to facilitate international debate about the meaning, nature and value of not only intangible cultural heritage, but heritage more generally. Intangible Heritage fills a significant gap in the heritage literature available and represents a significant cross section of ideas and practices associated with intangible cultural heritage. The authors brought together for this volume represent some of the key academics and practitioners working in the area, and discuss research and practices from a range of countries, including: Zimbabwe, Morocco, SoTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1:Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Reflections on History and Concepts 2. From the Proclamation of Masterpieces to the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage 3. UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage – the Implications of Community Involvement in Safeguarding 4. The Authentic Illusion: Humanity’s Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Moroccan Experience 5. Intangible Heritage as a List: From Masterpieces to Representation 6. Lessons Learned from the ICTM (NGO) Evaluation of Nominations for the UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, 2001–2005 Part 2: The Material Politics and Practices of the Intangible 7. Following the Length and Breadth of the Roots: Some Dimensions of Intangible Heritage 8. Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage Tourism and Poverty Reduction in Brazilian Quilombos 9. The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Protection and Maintenance of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples 10. Indigenous Curation, Museums, and Intangible Cultural Heritage 11. Intangible Cultural Heritage: Global Awareness and Local Interest Part 3: Reflecting on the Intangible 12. A Critique of Unfeeling Heritage 13. Heritage Between Economy and Politics: An Assessment from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology 14. Intangible Heritage in the United Kingdom: The Dark Side of Enlightenment? 15.‘The Envy of the World?’: Intangible Heritage in England

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable?Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a âConservation Movementâ, infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. The close inter-relationship between conservation and modern civilisation was most dramatically heightened in periods of war or social upheaval, beginning with the French Revolution, and rising to a tragic climax in the 20th-century age of totalitarian extremism; more recently the troubled relationship of âheritageâ and global commercialism has become dominant.Miles Glendinningâs new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of this architectural Conservation Movement, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.Trade ReviewMiles Glendinning’s new book significantly deepens our knowledge and appreciation of the conservation movement. In a critical, learned, deeply thoughtful and fast-paced narrative, Glendinning vividly relates the process of making, discovering and transforming heritage to the mainsprings of geopolitics and intellectual history. Focusing on the 20th century, he wisely steers clear of normative judgments – lending clarity to his interpretation of conservation debates and rendering this volume extremely useful to both historians and conservation/design professionals. – Professor Randall Mason, Chair, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, The University of Pennsylvania School of Design"A fascinating read" - The Architectural Review "This book brings vividly before our eyes the astonishing story of an astonishing movement, in all its diverse facets." - Die Denkmalpflege "With his familiar verve, Miles Glendinning, professor of architectural conservation at the University of Edinburgh, successfully confounds this preconception [that the subject has little new to tell us] with a combination of challenging insight and analysis that places evolving battles for the ethical high ground in conservation in the context of unfolding patterns of world events: revolutions, wars, and political and socio-economic transformations." -Dennis Rodwell, Context "Miles Glendinning’s new book significantly deepens our knowledge and appreciation of the conservation movement. In a critical, learned, deeply thoughtful and fast-paced narrative, Glendinning vividly relates the process of making, discovering and transforming heritage to the mainsprings of geopolitics and intellectual history. Focusing on the 20th century, he wisely steers clear of normative judgments – lending clarity to his interpretation of conservation debates and rendering this volume extremely useful to both historians and conservation/design professionals." – Professor Randall Mason, Chair, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, The University of Pennsylvania School of Design"...incorporating 12 chapters, the author gives an in-depth accounting of heritage, generously peppered with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and some maps....Glendinning leaves readers with challenging questions for the future of conserving the built environment." – L. B. Allsopp, University of OregonTable of ContentsThe Conservation Movement: Stepchild of Progress Part1: Pre-1789 - Foundations of the Movement: Care for Old Buildings in the Pre-Modern Age 1. Harbingers of Heritage: Antiquity, Christendom, Renaissance 2. International Revolutions and National Heritages: 1789-1850 Part 2:1789-1914 - Growth of the Movement: First Modern Ideologies of Conservation 3. International Revolutions and National Heritages: 1789-1850 4. The Life-Force of Age: Restoration and Anti-Scrape, c.1850-1890 53 Militant Monuments: Nationalist Conservation Rivalries, 1890-1914 Part 3: 1914-1945 - Crisis of the Movement: Mass Heritage, Mass Destruction 6. Monument Wars: Devastation and Rebuilding: 1914-39 7. Total War and Cultural Bombing: 1939-45 Part 4: 1945-1989 - Heyday of the Movement: Parallel Narratives of Postwar Preservation 8. Parallel Lives: New and Old in the West, 1945-1968 9. From Counter-Culture to Control: Western Triumphs of Conservation, 1968-89 10. Heritage Complexities in the Socialist Bloc, 1945-1989 11. Charters and Conventions: The Internationalisation of Heritage, 1945-1989 Part 5: POST-1989 - The Contemporary Story 12. Heritage in the Age of Globalisation, post-1989

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Book SynopsisNational Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and confront those issues of nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism which have come to the fore in national politics in recent decades.National Museums combines research from both leading and new researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology. It is an interrogation of the origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives and philosophies of national museums.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Narration within and without 3.Making, representing, being 4.National museums and the politics of the nation 5. Diverse nations and the national museum 6. National museums beyond museums

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Book SynopsisThis theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights. It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity's rich cultural diversity. While there is a considerable literature dealing separately with cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights, this book is distinctive and has contemporary relevance in focusing on the intersection between the three concepts. Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights establishes a fresh approach that will interest students and practitioners alike and on which future work in the heritage field might proceed.Trade Review“Reading this book and reflecting on the 35+ years since the World Heritage Convention came into force one recognizes the fragility of the whole ‘World Heritage project’. Is there a better alternative? I strongly commend the book. An engaging, if not cheering read.” - Max BourkeTable of ContentsPart 1: Setting Agendas 1. Intersecting Concepts and Practices 2. Human Rights and the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme 3. Custodians of the Land: Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Cultural Integrity 4. Linguistic Heritage and Language Rights in Europe: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Implications Part 2: National vs Local Rights 5. Unravelling the Cradle of Civilization ‘Layer by Layer’: Iraq, its Peoples and Cultural Heritage 6. The Political Appropriation of Burma’s Cultural Heritage and its Implications for Human rights 7. ‘Elasticity’ of Heritage, From Conservation to Human Rights: A Saga of Development and Resistance in Penang, Malaysia 8. Rendered Invisible: Urban Planning, Cultural Hheritage and Human Rights 9. ‘Indigenous Peoples are not Multicultural Minorities’: Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Indigenous Human Rights in Australia 10. A Sung Heritage: An Ecological Approach to Rights and Authority in Intangible Cultural Heritage in Northern Australia 11. ‘Cuca Shops’ and Christians: Heritage, Morality and Citizenship in Northern Namibia Part 3: Rights in Conflict 12. Protecting the Tay Nguyen Gongs: Conflicting Rights in Vietnam’s Central Plateau 13. The Rights Movement and Cultural Revitalization: The Case of the Ainu in Japan 14. Cultural Heritage and Human Rights in Divided Cyprus 15. Leaving the Buildings Behind: Conflict, Sovereignty and the Values of Heritage in Kashmir

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