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Book SynopsisMarketing Strategy for Museums is a practical guide to developing and delivering marketing that supports museums' missions and goals. Explaining how museums can be strategic and proactive in their approach, it also shows how to make effective decisions with limited resources.Presenting examples from a range of museums around the world, the author positions marketing as a vital function that aims to build mutually beneficial relationships between museums and their audiences both existing and new and ensure museums are relevant and viable. Breaking down key marketing models, Lister shows how they can be applied to museums in a meaningful way. Setting out a step-by-step framework for developing a museum's marketing strategy and for creating marketing campaigns, which can be scaled up or down. Readers will also be encouraged to reflect on topics such as sustainable marketing; ethical marketing; and accessible and inclusive marketing.Marketing Strategy for MusTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Marketing as a bridge – 1. Museums; 2. Marketing; 3. Audiences; Part II: Marketing strategy in practice – 4. Managing and implementing marketing; 5. Developing a museum marketing strategy; 5a. Situational analysis: Where are we now?; 5b. Goals and objectives: Where are we going?; 5c. Target audiences: Who do we want to reach?; 5d. Strategy and approach: How will we get there?; 5e. Tactics and action plan: What are we going to do?; 5f. Resources: What will it cost?; 5g. Monitoring and evaluation: How will we know if we’ve got there?; 6. Planning and delivering a marketing campaign; Part III: Deeper dives – 7. Branding; 8. Pricing; 9. Communication channels; 10. Messaging; 11. Accessible and inclusive marketing; 12. Ethical marketing.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1. Global Reflections; 1 Indigenous Repatriation: The Rise of the Global Legal Movement; 2 Saahlinda Naay – Saving Things House: The Haida Gwaii Museum Past, Present and Future; 3 I Mana I Ka ‘Oiwi: Dignity Empowered by Repatriation; 4 Germany’s Engagement with the Repatriation Issue; 5 The Face of Genocide: Returning Human Remains from German Institutions to Namibia; 6 Repatriation in the Torres Strait; 7 Ngarrindjeri Repatriation: Kungun Ngarrindjeri Yunnan (Listen to Ngarrindjeri Speaking); 8 Repatriation in the Kimberley: Practice, Approach, and Contextual History; 9 Restitution Policies in Argentina: The Role of the State, Indigenous Peoples, Museums, and Researchers; 10 The Control of Ancestors in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Chile; 11 Repatriation in Rapa Nui, Ka Haka Hoki Mai Te Mana Tupuna; 12 Paradoxes and Prospects of Repatriation to the Ainu: Historical Background, Contemporary Struggles, and Visions for the Future; 13 When the Living Forget the Dead: The Cross-Cultural Complexity of Implementing the Return of Museum Held Ancestral Remains; 14 The Majimaji War Mass Graves and the Challenges of Repatriation, Identity, and Remedy; Part 2. Histories and worldwide networks; 15 Russia and the Pacific: Expeditions, Networks, and the Acquisition of Human Remains; 16 Missionaries and the Removal, Illegal Export, and Return of Ancestral Remains: The Case of Father Ernst Worms; 17 ‘Under The Hammer’: The Role of Auction Houses and Dealers in the Distribution of Indigenous Ancestral Remains; 18 Profit and Loss: Scientific Networks and the Commodification of Indigenous Ancestral Remains; 19 ‘Inhuman and Very Mischievous Traffic’: Early Measures to Cease the Export of Ancestral Remains from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia; 20 Uses and Abuses: Indigenous Human Remains and the Development of European Science: An Aotearoa/New Zealand Case Study; 21 Australian Ancestral Remains in French Museums: Pathways to Repatriation; 22 The French Acquisition of Toi moko from Aotearoa/New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century; 23 The Andreas Reischek Collection in Vienna and New Zealand’s Attempts at Repatriation; 24 Collecting and Colonial Violence; 25 Wilhelm Krause’s Collections – Journeys between Australia and Germany; 26 Theorising Race and Evolution – German Anthropologie and Australian Aboriginal Ancestral Remains in the Late Nineteenth Century; 27 Navigating the Nineteenth Century Collecting Network: The Case of Joseph Barnard Davis; 28 Physical Anthropology in the Field: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay; Part 3. Repatriation methods; 29 Research for Repatriation Practice; 30 Provenance Research and Historical Sources for Understanding 19th Century Scientific Interest in Indigenous Human Remains: The Scholarly Journals and Popular Science Media; 31 Cultural Protocols in Repatriation: Processes at the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre; 32 ‘Australian Aborigine Skulls in a Loft in Birmingham, It Seems a Weird Thing’: Repatriation Work and the Search for Jandamarra; 33 Recovered: A Law Enforcement Approach to Meaningful Collaboration and Respectful Repatriation; 34 Genomic Testing of Ancient DNA: The Case of the Ancient One (also known as Kennewick Man); 35 Repatriation Knowledge in the Networked Archive of the Twenty-First Century; 36 Managing Indigenous Cultural Materials: The Australian Experience; 37 A Partnership Approach to Repatriation of Maori Ancestors; 38 Being Proactive: Ethical Reflections on Navigating the Repatriation Process; 39 Sharing Reflections on Repatriation: Manchester Museum and Brighton Negotiations, A Decade On; 40 The Return of Ancestral Remains from the Natural History Museum, London to Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owners: Repatriation Practice at the Museum and Community Level; 41 The Repatriation of Ancestral Human Remains from The Natural History Museum, London to Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owners: The Institutional and Governmental View; 42 Two Eagles and Jim Crow: Reburial and History-making in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales; Part 4. Restoring Dignity; 43 Dignified Relationships: Repatriation, Healing and Reconciliation; 44 Striving for Gozhoìoì: Apache Harmony and Healing Through Repatriation; 45 Repatriation and the Trauma of Native American History; 46 Returning to Yarluwar-Ruwe: Repatriation as a Sovereign Act of Healing; 47 Repatriation, Song and Ceremony: The Ngarrindjeri Experience; 48 Transforming the Archive: Returning and Connecting; 49 The Artist as Detective in the Museum Archive: A Creative Response to Repatriation and its Historic Context; 50 Repatriating Love to Our Ancestors; 51 ‘Let Them Rest in Peace’: Exploring Interconnections Between Repatriation from Museum and Battlefield Contexts; 52 Repatriation and the Negotiation of Identity: On the 20th Anniversary of the Pawnee Tribe–Smithsonian Institution Steed-Kisker Dispute; 53 Inside the Human Remains Store: The Impact of Repatriation on Museum Practice in the United Kingdom; 54 ‘And the Walls came Tumbling Down’; 55 The Ethics of Repatriation: Reflections on the Australian Experience; 56 Contested Human Remains in Museums: Can ‘Hope and History Rhyme’?

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Book SynopsisWhile historically focusing on the object, the study of ethics in conservation has expanded to consider the human aspect of conservation work. This book offers a flexible framework to guide decision-making in line with this development, offering an inclusive, compassionate approach to collections care.This edited volume contributes theories and international examples for advancing conservation practice and providing best practice for the field that centers people in conservation of cultural heritage and collections care. The first part examines the ethical theory that underpins conservation decision-making by challenging outdated norms, introducing updated methods, and demonstrating new ways to approach compassionate collections care. The second part considers the challenges of human-centered ethics in conservation practice, while the final part provides real-world examples and case studies of these best practices in action, including successful challenges to colonial authoriTable of ContentsIntroduction: Purpose and Theory of Human-Centered Ethics in Conservation, Nina Owczarek; Part 1 - Ethics in Conservation Theory; 1. An Analysis of Key Cultural Heritage Resolutions, Documents, Charters, and Legislation, Madeline Hagerman; 2. Examining Ethics from a Caregiving Perspective to Inform Human-centered Conservation, Nina Owczarek; 3. Indigenous Storywork as an Ethical Guide for Caring with Social Practice Art and Artists, Rebecca Gordon; 4. Lessons from the Commons to Move from Enclosure to Shared Stewardship, Jessica Walthew; Part 2 – Issues of Human-centered Ethics in Conservation Practice; 5. Considering the Impacts of Colonization Trauma when Exhibiting Indigenous Cultures in Museums, Tharron Bloomfield; 6. Repatriation as Conservation: Moving Toward a Decolonized Conservation Ethic, Daniel Schwartz; 7. Prioritizing Communities Through Conservation Documentation, Ellen Pearlstein and Linda Yamane; 8. Proposing a Vulnerable and Transparent Approach to Conservation Documentation, Natalya Swanson and Celeste Mahoney; 9. Incorporating Philosophy and Ethics in Objects Conservation Curricula, Lauren Fair and Lara Kaplan; 10. Religious Values as Conservation Practice: Caring for Judaica, Margalit Schindler; Part 3 - Integrating the Human-Centered Approach Applied in Context; 11. Conservation as Activism: Preservation at the George Floyd Global Memorial, Jeanelle Austin and Nicole Grabow; 12. Post-Disaster Cultural Recovery in Haiti, 2010-2021: Reflections on a Decade of Collaboration, Olsen Jean Julien and Stephanie E. Hornbeck; 13. Rethinking "Invasive": Approaches to Informed Analysis and Object Care with Spiritually-Imbued Objects, Marci J. Burton, Christian de Brer, Carlee S. Forbes, and Erica P. Jones; 14. Reconsidering Dust and How Personal Experience Informs Preservation Decisions, Lisa Conte and Kerith Koss Schrager; 15. Reflections on Authority in the Conservation of Indigenous Objects in Museums, Ellen Carrlee, Amy Tjiong, and Adrienne Gendron.

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Book SynopsisSince the Intangible Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, intangible cultural heritage has increasingly been an important subject of debate in international forums. As more countries implement the Intangible Heritage Convention, national policymakers and communities of practice have been exploring the use of intellectual property protection to achieve intangible cultural heritage safeguarding outcomes.This book examines diverse cultural heritage case studies from Indigenous communities and local communities in developing and industrialised countries to offer an interdisciplinary examination of topics at the intersection between heritage and property which present cross-border challenges. Analysing a range of case studies which provide examples of traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources by a mixture of practitioners and scholars from different fields, the book addresses guidelines and legislation as well as recent developmen

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Book SynopsisMuseums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate, biodiversity and pollution crises. They have a unique role because they take a long-term perspective, and their scholarship and independence mean that they remain trusted by the public.Providing insights and international case studies from a range of museum and gallery professionals, academics and consultants, this book explores how museums can use this unique perspective to engage the public as active citizens, and how they are exemplars of good practice in areas such as emissions reduction and encouraging biodiversity. It shows how museums can combat climate exhaustion by drawing on understandings about positive motivation, and how to develop exhibitions, events and activities that motivate visitors to take action. Taking a broad approach beyond purely climate issues, the contributions touch on the use of renewables, environmental controls and standards, travel (includiTable of Contents The role of museums and galleries in addressing the climate and ecological crisis (Nick Merriman) OVERVIEW PAPERS Museums Empowering Climate Action (Sarah Sutton & John Fraser) The emergency is an octopus! Museums activating the public in a planetary emergency (Bridget McKenzie & Victoria Burns) Museums as Catalysts of Cultural Adaptation: the ‘Inside-Outside Model’ (Douglas Worts) Tackling the climate crisis: an overview of UK museums (Kathryn Simpson) Museums Tackling Climate Change: A Zimbabwean Context (Simbarashe Chitima) The Global South emerges: how cultural institutions in South America are using storytelling to call audiences to action in tackling climate change (Eduardo Carvalho) Collections Management and Conservation (Caitlin Southwick) The 100 Year Future: Museums and the Climate and Nature Crisis (Maria Balshaw) Culture’s contributions to the climate challenge - a brief account of Julie’s Bicycle (Alison Tickell) CASE STUDIES Taking Action on Climate Change and Sustainability at the Australian Museum (Zehra Ahmed & Jenny Newell) Cultivating Climate Leadership: Evolving an Institution to Address Climate Change and Helping Others to Do the Same (Richard Piacentini) Creating advocates for the future (Clare Matterson) The Whitworth – Transforming Manchester’s Gallery in the Park (Jo Beggs & Dean Whiteside) Responding to the climate crisis at Leeds Museums & Galleries (Lisa Broadest & Yvonne Hardman) Shaping a positive future at the Horniman Museum and Gardens (Carole Destre & Nick Merriman) Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them.Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade. Accessible and elegantTrade Review"Natural Things is a creative, exciting, and genre-defying volume that helps readers to understand natural history more attentively and capaciously. The volume puts nature back into nature, and follows natural things across built environments, ecological niches, and academic fields, embracing the unruliness required if one puts them, rather than people, at the centre."Surekha Davies, Ph.D. Researcher, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands"What better can be said of a book than that it impels the reader to realize things are not as they seem, nor can they be easily categorized, especially not into binary classifications such as natural/unnatural, live/dead, human/nature, indigenous/exotic, west/east, and subject/object. This is a volume full of surprises, changelings, liminalities, and polyvalent meanings. In its capacious and always fascinating roving around the terrains, ecologies, and intersections of material culture, global exchange, environmental history, and the history of knowledge and science/nature studies, Natural Things will unsettle assumptions and introduce instabilities into seemingly fixed points of reference. Read it!"Pamela H. Smith, PhD, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University, New York"This excellent collection of essays brings alive crucial exchanges of ideas and objects that characterize the scientific and cultural history of the early modern world. Combining archival erudition, critical historiography, and imaginative visualization, this book is an inspiring new resource for teaching as well as further research. In evocative essays, we are reminded that ‘seeing’ things that make up various understandings of nature should be understood as an active pursuit, whether for us today or in the way we ascribe it to past peoples whose imaginations we try to bring to life in our work. The book provides one of the most successful cases I know for using images as crucial historical evidence rather than as indexical illustrations."Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Brown University USA"This visually arresting and all-absorbing book takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey across the world from the Pacific Islands to South Asia, from the Atlantic world to Europe and the Americas at a time in which humans profoundly redefined their relationship with the global natural world. By bringing material culture, ecology, technologies, science and economy into conversation, Natural Things defies disciplinary boundaries and redefines our understanding of nature. It does so by considering a number of surprising ‘things’, among which an pink edible animal and a carnivorous plant; an anti-poison stone and one of the most toxic plants; the produce of the intestines of a sperm whale and a delicious beverage to be sipped in company. After reading Natural Things, when you step out of your front door, you’ll never see the world with the same eyes, and you’ll notice ‘things’ that you had not appreciated before!"Giorgio Riello, Professor of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy[This book] pushes readers (…) to begin to ask questions about the natural histories of other organisms and to question more closely long-standing narratives about plant discovery and botany. It’s an interesting blend of more traditional history of science with the newer fields of critical plant studies and the plant humanities, which are also at work enriching our views of the floral world.Maura Flannery, Herbarium World (August 2023)“The volume (…) offers a brilliant contribution to the study of non-European knowledge about nature. A rich and pathbreaking volume that, rather than simplifying, sketches a more complex and nuanced picture of the histories of early modern natural things and the humans they met along their ways"Lavinia Gambini, Journal of Early Modern History 27 (2023) 555–568."Like any worthy Wunderkammer, to reap its finer rewards this eclectic collection demands close looking and deep reading, if not several return visits. Smartly designed, edited, and formatted in the manner of a weighty exhibition catalog, Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds falls into that venerable hybrid genre that since the Enlightenment has sought to marry art and nature. At the same time, it mimics a current trend in museography, wherein visual artists are invited to mount critical interventions within the museum’s galleries."Mark Thurner, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Natural Things in Early Modern WorldsMackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu YıldırımOn the DesignZoë Sadokierski and Katie DeanPart I: Manipulated1. Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in MesoamericaHelen Burgos-Ellis2. Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the BeastMackenzie Cooley 3. Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Control of WaterAlexander Statman4. Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance ItalyMackenzie Cooley and Kathryn BiedermannPart II: Felt5. Squid: Natural History as Food History Whitney Barlow Robles 6. Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory ExperiencesDuygu Yıldırım7. Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser AntillesThomas C. Anderson8. Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet NectarElaine AyersPart III: Preserved9. Leaf: The Materiality of Early Modern HerbalsJulia Heideklang10. Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place Florencia Pierri 11. Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara’s Lost CollectionAnna Toledano12. Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of GaussNicolaas RupkeEpilogue: Nature’s NarrativesPaula FindlenAfterword: The Disorder of ThingsAlan Mikhail Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an innovative application of strategic and experiential marketing in the museum sector, which uses a new cultural mediation model to enrich the visitor experience via increased audience engagement.Leveraging a case study of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Arts in Rome, the book helps readers understand how to apply marketing management to cultural mediation, enabling museums to segment the visitors' market to drive improvements to arts accessibility and engagement. By running a comprehensive and multi-method research project, the authors propose a customized cultural mediation model to support museums in facing the current challenges and build their future. Our model supports museums in segmenting the visitors' market and designing cultural mediation for enriched visitor experiences; readers will also learn how to invest, manage, hire, and train staff members devoted to this service, resulting in more engaging and successful experiencTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Audience engagement, its drivers, and its implications for museum cultural mediation 3. Museum cultural mediation: from competences to best practices 4. Understanding the visitor value of museum cultural mediation 5. The customized model of museum cultural mediation 6. Museum cultural mediation as transformative museum experience

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Book SynopsisReflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves.Considering the interview as a form of cultural production, contributors explore the criteria for determining the artist interview as a distinct field of research in relation to other cultural fields. Structured in four parts, âHistory and Historiographyâ, âSubverting the Biographical Modelâ, âInterviews as Practiceâ and âMateriality and Technologyâ, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the fields of art history, fine art, oral history, curating, media studies and museum conservation. By theorising the artist interview as a form of cultural production and embracing it as a co-constructed critical practice, this volume aims to show and encourage an approach to art history which dismantles old hierarchies in favour of valuing dialogue and collabora

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Book SynopsisToxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions. It identifies critical issues and highlights areas of emerging research on the intersections of environmental harm with formal and informal memory practices, while also highlighting the resilience, advocacy, and creativity of communities, scholars, and heritage professionals in reTable of ContentsForeword; Introduction: Toxic Heritage: An Introduction. Section 1: Introduction - Section 1 "Framing Toxicity": Chapter 1: Toxic legacies of slickens in California: a mobile heritage of hydraulic mining debris; Visual Essay 1: Visual Essay: Extraction old and new: toxic legacies of mining the desert in southwestern Africa; Chapter 2: Of blaes and bings: the (non)toxic heritage of the West Lothian oil shale industry; Chapter 3: When Toxic Heritage is Forever: Confronting PFAS Contamination and Toxicity as Lived Experience; Chapter 4: Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and Climate Change. Section 2: Introduction - Section 2 "The Politics of Toxic Heritage": Chapter 5: Heritage-led Regeneration and the Sanitisation of Memory in the Lower Swansea Valley; Case Study 1: Ghost Wrecks of the Anthropocene: An Enduring Toxic Legacy of the Pacific War; Chapter 6: Military Legacies and Indigenous Heritage in Canada’s Newest National Park Reserve; Case Study 2: Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in Palestine; Chapter 7: Politics of Mining: Toxic Heritage in the Atacama Desert; Case Study 3: Sticky, Stinky, Squalid: The toxic leachate of households’ waste in an area of urban decay in Tehran (Iran); Chapter 8: Toxic Landmarking and Technoprecarious Heritage in Ghana. Section 3: Section 3 Affected Communities, Activism, and Agency – Introduction: Chapter 9: Reluctant Returns: Repatriating a Poisoned Past; Case Study 4: Public Memory of Toxic Displacement: Heavy Metal Contamination and Superfund Remediation in Federally Assisted Housing Communities; Visual Essay 2: Translating and Transforming Toxicity: Moving Between Ethnography and Graphic Art; Chapter 10: Preservation by demolition: Toxic heritage in contemporary China; Chapter 11: Unwanted Legacy and Memory of the Milieu: Toxic Materials, Remediation, Habituation (Estarreja, Portugal); Chapter 12: Environmental and Embodied Agro-toxic heritage in Rural Uruguay: From Recognition to Transition to Sustainability among Dairy Farmers. Section 4 Introduction - Section 4 "Narratives of Toxic Heritage": Chapter 13: Dirty Laundry: the Toxic Heritage of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis, Indiana; Case Study 5: When Cleaning up the Battlefields from Time of War has Polluted Soils in Time of Peace: A Silent but Visible Toxic Legacy from the Great War; Chapter 14: Toxic City: Industrial Residues, the Body and Community Activism as Heritage Practice in Glasgow; Case Study 6: Rubber as (toxic) heritage: the Amazonian rubber case; Case Study 7: Three memory frameworks on Chernobyl; Chapter 15: The Toxic Anthracite: Toxic Heritage. Section 5: Introduction - Section 5 "Approaches and Interventions": Chapter 16: Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity and Activism; Visual Essay 3: Getting the Lead Out, One Community at a Time; Case Study 8: Climate Museum UK: Practices in Response to the Traumasphere; Chapter 17: Toxic Heritage and Reparations: Activating Memory for Climate Justice; Case Study 9: Case Study: From Leftovers To Takeover: Latent Insurgency Amidst the System’s Remnants; Visual Essay 4: Taking care of nuclear waste; Chapter 18: Toxic and Wasted: Artists Thinking About How to Engage With Material Futures; Conclusion: Why Toxic Heritage Matters.

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Book SynopsisInstitutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact institutional change by implementing systematic and structural approaches to anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-elitist practices.This practical guide brings together museum and heritage experts, artists, organizers, and cultural workers to present thoughtful, polyvocal critiques and solutions for conceptualizing museums of the future. These authors embrace hybrid identities, complicate concepts of nationalism, straddle disciplines, and extend the concept, function, and literal place and definition of the museum. The book shows that museums must cultivate practices that center people, interrogate colonial legacies, take new approaches to curatorial ethics and caring for objects, and imagine new strategies for asserting the relevance of museums, to create institutional change. This resource challenges traditional approaches to museology by offerin

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Book SynopsisThe Anticolonial Museum acknowledges some of the consequences of colonialism in the current work of museums. Looking at museum theory in a critical way, it proposes a radical revision of museums' rhetoric on decolonisation, as well as their public image and practices.Bringing together a collection of reflections on decolonisation through the observation of museum performance and discourse, the author considers current practices in response to the social claims of marginalised groups and activists. Drawing from a genealogy of decolonial thinking in museology, Brulon Soares identifies the inherent paradoxes reflected in museum work. The book's focus is not exclusively on the reality of colonised countries, nor on the context of former imperialist nationsinstead, it raises anticolonial questions, finding common ground between the different actors involved in the museum: scholars, students, curators, practitioners, community members and Indigenous creators. One of the ceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dismantling the showcase; 1. Heritage in exile; 2. On borders: Deconstructing the modern museum; 3. A time for the margins: On reconstructing and rehumanising; 4. Redistributing the museum: Towards a museology of hope; Conclusions: Reflections for our past’s future; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisMuseum Configurations demonstrates how museum space functions cognitively and communicatively and questions whether it can be designed to provide a rich embodied experience, situating displays and their public in felicitous dialogue.Including contributions from authors working in the disciplines of architecture, psychology, museum studies, history and the visual arts, this volume addresses an interdisciplinary audience. The analysis of a wealth of examples shows how the voices of architects, curators and exhibition designers enter into dialogue and invite visitors to make their own connections between physical, cognitive and affective space. Considering how the layout of museums facilitates movement and orientation so that visitors may devote their attention to displays, the book questions what kinds of visual attention characterizes museum experiences and how the design of museum space can support them. In the context of an often dematerialized, atomized, and dissipatTable of Contents1. Museums as spatial configurations; 2. The dialectic of the enlightenment museum: Edifice, edification, and dissolution; 3. Movement, visibility, and the states of museum experience; 4. Intelligibility and the structures of freedom; 5. A stimulating museum space: ‘Glancing away’ and engaging working memory in-between exhibits; 6. Narrative, dramaturgy and spatial choreography: movement and subjectivity in museum configurations; 7. Spacing collections. Space syntax and a museum yet to come; 8. Navigating museum space: Mapping, syntax, and metaphor; 9. Designing the syntax of museum space in the studio; 10. Postscript: What more can museum architecture do?.

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Book SynopsisFamines and the Making of Heritage is the first book to bring together groundbreaking research on the role of European famines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in relation to heritage making, museology, commemoration, education, and monument creation.Featuring contributions from famine experts across Europe and North America, the volume adopts a pioneering transnational perspective, and discusses issues such as contestable and repressed heritage, materiality, dark tourism, education on famines, oral history, multidirectional memory, and visceral empathy. Questioning why educational curricula and practices in schools and on heritage sites are region- or nation-oriented or transnational, chapters also consider whether they emphasise conflict or mutual understanding. Contributions also consider how present issues of European concern such as globalisation, commodification, human rights, poverty, and migration intersect with the heritage and memory of modern European fa

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Book SynopsisLeadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural Organisations: A Practical Guide is the first book to provide guidance on how to lead cultural organisations that are inclusive, diverse and sustainable, and responsive to the public, their communities, their own staff and to popular movements.The bookâs seven parts cover the qualities and skills a leader needs, and practical advice on how to develop an organisation that is sustainable, inclusive and diverse. It covers the role of the governing body, how to create an organisation that is constantly learning and adapting, how to deal with political, public and financial pressures, and what external sources of support they can call on. Each chapter is devoted to a specific issue that might be encountered on the leadership journey and is extensively cross-referenced to other relevant chapters.Including a list of helpful suggestions of useful and practical publications for further reading, Leadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural Organisations is a unique guide to cultural leadership. This book is an essential resource for all cultural practitioners with a leadership role within an organisation or aspiring to such a role. It will also be instructive to students of cultural heritage management.

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Book SynopsisMobile Heritage explores how diverse digital technologies (such as apps, GPS, games, social platforms, NFTs, drones, AR, VR, and MR, among others) have allowed for new types of heritage-related mobilities, and thereby established a novel set of practices, interventions, and politics in heritage collections, archives, exhibitions, entertainment, preservation, management, commerce, education, restitution, activism, and regulation.The volume is not a âhow toâ book. Instead, it critically examines this emerging landscape and its unsettling of existing relations between heritage and knowledge, value, identity, power, sense of place, community, nationhood, and ownership â thereby outlining a new set of issues, implications, and consequences. The volume brings together case studies from around the world and each chapter considers mobility matters related to both tangible and intangible cultural heritage (including art, film, music, historical games, manuscripts, Indigenous kn

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Book SynopsisConflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies.Designed as a resource guide, this general volume introduces the multiple roles cultural heritage plays through the conflict cycle from its onset, subsequent escalation and through to resolution and recovery. In its broadest sense, it questions what role cultural heritage plays within conflict, how cultural heritage is used in the construction and justification of conflict narratives, how are these narratives framed and often manipulated to support particular perspectives, and how we can develop better understandings of cultural heritage and work towards the better protection of cultural heritage resources during conflict. It moves beyond the protection paradigm and recognises that cultural heTable of Contents1.Introduction, 2. Cultural Heritage and the Causes of Violent Conflict Causes, 3.Heritage and Ethnic/ Identity Conflicts, 4. Heritage and Nation Building, 5. Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict, 6. Cultural Heritage, Peacemaking and Post-Conflict Societies, 7. Cultural Heritage and Peace, 8. Heritage and Conflict Memory, 9. Comparative practice and Environmental Peacebuilding, 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe Psychology of Blindness and Visual Culture: Towards a new ecological model of visual impairment advances the debate regarding the inclusion and wellbeing of people with visual impairment (PVI) through looking at the psychological nature of visual culture and its effects on the lived experience. It explores whether is possible to increase access to visual culture for PVI through language, alternative sensory data or contemporary communication media, and in so doing, questions whether or not communication and culture are intrinsically visual.Occupying a unique field of study by focusing on the understanding of visual culture and visual communication by PVI in real world settings, this empirical book examines the difference between the understanding of visual culture and visual communication by PVI who acquire their visual impairments late in life and PVI who acquire their visual impairments early in life. Understanding these concepts not only helps us to understand how PVI feel socially included in visual culture, but also how culture and artefacts are conceptualized verbally, culturally and through the senses.It is compelling reading for advanced students of psychology and philosophy, and those studying learning in cultural settings, and in museum studies, computer science, disability studies, education and fine art management.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range â academics, museum curators, students, and content creators â to discuss case studies, challenges, and potential future avenues for public scholarship on the history, archaeology, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia.Together, the contributions promote the creation of inclusive methods of knowledge mobilization and communication in public spheres across three main areas: cultural heritage, pedagogy, and public-facing scholarship. These areas have all been directly affected by Eurocentric structures that have claimed ownership of ancient Mediterranean cultural heritage and have dictated how it has been taught in schools and communicated to the broader public. The volume is divided into three sections â Museums, Teaching and Learning, and Global and Local Projects â each addressing pressing challenges faced within these interrelated fields and offering w

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Book SynopsisGrappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world to confront colonial and imperial monuments and to promote social equity.Presenting 12 interdisciplinary, international case studies, this volume explores the ways in which the materiality of social domination can be combated. With contributions from activists, scholars, artists, and policymakers, the book envisions the theme of restorative justice in heritage and archaeology as encompassing initiatives for the reconciliation of past societal transgressions using processes that are multivocal, dialogic, historically informed, community-based, negotiated, and transformative. Arguing that monuments to historical figures who engaged in oppressive regimes provide rich opportunities for dialogue and negotiation, chapters within the book demonstrate that, by confronting these monuments, citizens can envision new ways to address the context and significance

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Book SynopsisMuseum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design.At a time when museum practitioners are challenged to work within their particular buildings and contexts to help the children in their communities feel welcome, invited, and involved, this book presents alternative approaches that are being implemented across the world and pushing the museum field further in its commitment to children, starting with design. The book provides inspirational insights into large and small-scale ways that children can participate in museum design and thereby exercise their human rights, gain agency, develop their sense of belonging, and form part of museum communities. Drawing on case studies from Argentina, Australia, England, Italy, Mexico, and Paraguay, and theoretical insights from the Reggio Emilia Approach, constructivism, designerly learning, laboratory-style design, and the work of Paulo Freire and Francesco Tonucci, this book explores the extent to which museumsâ design processes are child-centered, and to how childrenâs material culture can be reflected in the museum design work that will ultimately shape their own early learning experiences. The book explores museum design as a process that involves key stakeholders in procedural planning and associated tasks and discussions, such as those regarding color, light, shape, form, space, and building materials.Museum Design with, by, and for Children will be valuable for museum practitioners, students and researchers with an interest in childrenâs experiences in museums, particularly how children can be empowered as active participants with rights to the museum.

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Analyzing media coverage in cases where cultural heritage sites have been destroyed during conflict, occupation and war, this book highlights the important role media play in the preservation of cultural heritage when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations.Author Mischa Geracoulis discusses how the role of journalism and the media during times of conflict is to report information from the front lines and war zones with integrity, and report accurately when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations. The book examines the media coverage, language and discourse surrounding two key situationsâthe destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh and that of Palestinian cultural heritage in Gazaâand explores the ways media coverage has succeeded or failed in accurately illustrating the destruction of cultural heritage as a human rights violation. Geracoulis emphasizes the importance of factual, ethical reporting and sufficient coverage, underlining professional journalistic standards and best practices for the future to ensure similar destruction is not only understood, but responded to, within a human rights framework.The book will be of interest to students and scholars of media, journalism, and cultural studies, as well as media professionals interested in the role and influence of media framing and narratives on war, conflict, human rights, and humanitarian response.

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This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.Beginning with the prehistory of the continent it engages with geology, prehistory, the arrival of the first Australians, Aboriginal culture of the Dreaming, anthropology, colonial history and the cult of the inland explorer-hero, and integration of the central deserts (n.b. plural) through the responses of writers, artists, and film makers into the national identity. This book explores the unique way Indigenous artists have evolved a method of expressing their spiritual relationship to Country, while hiding from uninitiated eyes the secret-sacred meaning beneath the paint. It takes us on a journey through the politics of Land Rights for First Nations peoples, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and an analysis of Indigenous ecological principles which may suggest a new and radical approach to navigating climate change

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Book SynopsisThe history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on a range of archival sources and interviews, this book charts the development of new narratives of the recent German past and explores the significance of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall in defining German national identity.Trade Review'An original mixture of journalistic reporting and scholarly analysis, this will be the definitive work on the subject of the aftermath of the Wall.' Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and author of Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century'Hope M. Harrison's superbly informed and often moving study of the Berlin Wall demonstrates that the issues of whom to honor and punish, how to memorialize, and how to integrate into the history of German dictatorship, have made its history a continuing site of political contestation. And poignantly today, a reminder of the era when we strove to tear down walls and not to build them.' Charles S. Maier, Harvard University and author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany'Hope M. Harrison provides an extraordinary account of an extraordinary event and its legacies, both factual and political, and it will certainly frame the discussion for the future. It is a tremendous achievement.' Jeffrey K. Olick, William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology and History, University of Virginia'A riveting and compelling account of Germany's post-1989 struggle over the history and memory of the Berlin Wall. Masterfully told with critical distance and yet deep empathy, Harrison engages the reader in the dramatic contest over the past and future of the new Germany.' Christian F. Ostermann, Director of the History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 'A tour de force, breaking new ground in showing us how German memory activists turned the focus of national history to the Cold War, and in particular to the wall, the dismantling of which embodied the peaceful end of that struggle for freedom.' Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut'… many years in the making and is the result of meticulous research.' Georgina Paul, The Times Literary Supplement'… carefully researched and superbly readable …' Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs'This important book offers a comprehensive account of how the Berlin Wall has been remembered and memorialized since its fall in 1989 … this clearly written and highly readable text will appeal to scholars and general readers alike.' H. D. Baer, Choice'… far-ranging, well-researched and highly readable study … After the Berlin Wall is a major achievement by a leading scholar, a study that will, for the foreseeable future, set the standard for any serious exploration of unified Germany's memory culture surrounding the Berlin Wall.' Pertti Ahonen, H-Diplo'… the book adds to our understanding of the Wall as a touchstone and sounding board for memory. Harrison succeeds in bringing out the palimpsest qualities of this stark, spray-painted structure.' Mark Fenemore, H-Diplo'Comprehensively researched, beautifully written …' Mary Fulbrook, H-Diplo'Hope M. Harrison's splendid book is a tremendous achievement … It will frame the memory and identity discussions for the future.' Stephan Kieninger, H-Diplo'… the book [is] so beneficial for everybody who studies the history of the Berlin Wall.' Hanno Hochmuth, The Public HistorianTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and German terms; Introduction: the Berlin Wall and German historical memory; 1. Divergent approaches to the fall of the Wall; 2. The fight over memory at Bernauer Strasse; 3. Creating a Berlin Wall Memorial ensemble at Bernauer Strasse; 4. Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie; 5. The Berlin Senate's master plan for remembering the Wall; 6. The Federal Government and the Berlin Wall; 7. Victims and perpetrators; 8. Conflicting narratives about the Wall; 9. Heroes to celebrate and a new founding myth; Conclusion: memory as warning; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years controversial cases such as the so-called Elgin Marbles have prompted public debate on the return of cultural treasures to their homelands. In this fully revised and expanded third edition of her seminal work, first published in 2007, Jeanette Greenfield analyzes and discusses the historical, legal and political issues surrounding a wide cross-section of similar cases. Bringing the story up to date, this edition includes new chapters on wartime plunders, deliberately destroyed art and the return of ethnic art such as Australian aboriginal and Native American art. It also explores the palaeontological and marine archaeology issues at play and examines new approaches taken by museums when dealing with cultural objects and their return. Written in a highly accessible style with an interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in cultural heritage, archaeology and anthropology, museums, art history and international law.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '[Described the central topic of this book as] 'the morally rather beautiful idea that certain objects belong by right to a culture, and that in certain circumstances this overrides rights of circumstantial ownership.' Arthur C. Danto, The Times Literary SupplementReview of the hardback: 'She brings style, enthusiasm and the mind an international lawyer to the complex historical, legal and political issues … A book for everyone concerned about Earth's scientific, historic and artistic heritage …' The TimesReview of the hardback: 'This remarkable book represents on the one hand, an important contribution to the law, both international and domestic, of the cultural heritage, and on the other hand a contribution likewise to the history of the movement of cultural treasures.' Australian Law JournalReview of the hardback: 'Both readable and with its hundred excellent illustrations a delight to browse through …' British Yearbook of International LawReview of the hardback: '[Jeanette Greenfield] presents an involving, balanced and excellently researched discussion of the priceless cultural artefacts taken from their lands of origin …' Art and AntiquesReview of the hardback: 'A fine book on a very important subject often surrounded not just by controversy but plain lies. It is a book which all interested in the cultural heritage of the people of the world will find rewarding reading.' Sydney Morning HeraldReview of the hardback: 'An extremely readable and accessible account of the complex legal issues involved in the question of repatriation … a well thought out balanced presentation …' Current AnthropologyReview of the hardback: '… a very valuable and important work … presents fully researched discussions of scores of cases argued over many years concerning national requests for 'repatriation' and 'return' of art and artefacts.' American Journal of ArchaeologyReview of the hardback: 'The first edition of this highly readable study was an important landmark in the debates about the antiquities trade.' British ArchaeologyReview of the hardback: '… provides a very fair analysis of this complex issue … a beautifully produced book … a standard reference on the subject.' Australian SocietyReview of the hardback: 'Greenfield's book is an excellent guide for any would-be cultural politician.' Financial TimesReview of the hardback: '… a breakthrough book … which treats in a very detailed and illuminating and nuanced way, processes about which folklorists increasingly are … concerned: the expropriation of cultural capital and its use by powerful nation-states for the purposes of political legitimization, and then its repatriation, as a result of growing pressure from those from whom it was taken.' Lingua Franca'… essential for reflection and reference for anyone wishing to engage in the increasingly public debate about the ownership of cultural property. … There are substantial, enlightening studies of many specific cases, and very readable discussions of the complex moral, political and legal contexts. New additions include chapters on plunder, native rights to relics and human remains, and the deliberate deconstruction of art. It all benefits greatly from being a clear minded, single-authorised study rather than an edited collection' British Archaeology'The Return of Cultural Treasures is an enjoyable read. Greenfield is strong on facts and knows how to tell an attractive story. The volume is lively and rich in juicy morsels. It is also attractively presented, with 139 illustrations, most of them photos.' Journal of Business Law'Dr Greenfield has certainly produced a masterpiece which we can recommend to both beginners and specialists. I know of no other book on the issue of restitution which comes close to this book in its breadth of knowledge and careful detailed analysis.' ModernGhana.comTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction Magnus Magnusson; 1. The Icelandic manuscripts; 2. The Elgin Marbles debate; 3. British and other European practice; 4. Some British cases; 5. American and Canadian practice; 6. Russia and the former Soviet Union; 7. The Hebrew manuscripts; 8. International and regional regulation; 9. Art theft and the art market; 10. Plunder; 11. The first people; 12. Ground zero; 13. Homecomings: real and virtual; Notes; List of appendices in microfiche in first edition (1989); Select bibliography; Select list of web sites; Index.

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Book SynopsisFriedrich Rathgen (18621942) was a German chemist who made a profound contribution to the development of conservation science. First published in 1905, this book contains an English translation of Rathgen's 1898 work Die Konservierung von Altertumsfunden, the first comprehensive text on the subject of archaeological conservation.Table of ContentsAuthor's preface; Translator's preface; Literature; Part I. The Changes Undergone by Antiquities in Earth and in Air; Part II. The Preservation of Antiquities: 1. Preservation of objects composed of inorganic substances; Appendix. Cement for earthenware. Restorations; Appendix. Method of bringing out worn lettering upon coins; 2. Preservation of organic substances; Care of antiquities after preservative treatment; Concluding remarks; Appendix A. Method of taking squeezes of inscriptions; Appendix B. Zapon; Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten in 1870, this two-volume work covers the period 15701870. Volume 2 looks at some of the early book donors and George III's Royal Library, as well as later benefactors of the period 18291870.Table of ContentsBook II continued: 3. A group of book-lovers and public benefactors; 4. The King's or 'Georgian' Library; its collector, and its donor; 5. The founder of the Banksian Museum and Library; Book III. Later Augmentors and Benefactors 1729–1870: 1. General view of the history of the British Museum under Joseph Planta; 2. Introduction to Book III (continued) - growth, progress, and internal economy, of the British Mueum under Sir Henry Ellis; 3. Introduction to Book III (continued) - growth, progress, and internal economy, of the British Museum under Sir Antonio Panizzi; 4. Another group of archaeologists and explorers - the spoils of Xanthus, of Babylon, or Nineveh, of Halicarnassus, and of Cathage; 5. The founder of the Grenville Library; 6. Other benefactors of recent days; 7. Reconstructors and projectors; Index.

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Book SynopsisMuseums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ability to operate as sites of democratic public space.Trade Review"[Barrett]constructs a framework within which it is possible to both confront some startling realities about the gap between museums' purported ‘public' role and their efficacy and relevance in the ‘public sphere', and consider initiatives that might rectify this situation." (Visitor Studies Journal, 9 March 2012) Table of ContentsList of Images vii Introduction 1 1 The Public Sphere 15 2 Historical Discourses of the Museum 45 3 The Museum as Public Space 81 4 Audience, Community, and Public 118 5 The Museum as Public Intellectual 143 Conclusion 164 References 175 Acknowledgments 191 Index 193

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Book SynopsisWritten by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provides a unique insider's guide to what museums are and how they operate. An insider's view of the rarefied world of the museum that provides a refreshing and unique account of the reality of the workings of museum life The material has been successfully tested in a course that the author has taught for 14 years Miller has extensive experience at all levels of museum work, from painting walls for exhibitions to museum directorship Clearly and engagingly written, the book covers all the component parts and various disciplines of museum operations, and opinions and perspectives are drawn from a deep knowledge of the field Includes useful pedagogical material, including questions, discussion topics, and a range of anecdotes Table of ContentsForeword vii Introduction 1 1 What is a Museum? 5 2 Museum Governance 15 3 Museum Directing 29 4 Curating=Connoisseurship=Collecting 45 5 Managing in Museums 65 6 Audience: A Matter of Definition 109 7 Fundraising 117 8 Collection Management 131 9 Museum Education 139 10 Numbers 145 11 Conservation: The Preservation Imperative 155 12 Exhibitions: Show and Tell 167 13 Maintenance and Security 183 14 Museums and the Media 201 15 Architecture 207 16 Volunteers 221 17 Behavior 227 18 Museum Ethics 241 19 What’s Next for Museums? 255 Appendix I: A Course Final 263 Index 267

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Book SynopsisWritten by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provides a unique insider's guide to what museums are and how they operate. An insider's view of the rarefied world of the museum that provides a refreshing and unique account of the reality of the workings of museum life The material has been successfully tested in a course that the author has taught for 14 years Miller has extensive experience at all levels of museum work, from painting walls for exhibitions to museum directorship Clearly and engagingly written, the book covers all the component parts and various disciplines of museum operations, and opinions and perspectives are drawn from a deep knowledge of the field Includes useful pedagogical material, including questions, discussion topics, and a range of anecdotes Table of ContentsForeword vii Introduction 1 1 What is a Museum? 5 2 Museum Governance 15 3 Museum Directing 29 4 Curating=Connoisseurship=Collecting 45 5 Managing in Museums 65 6 Audience: A Matter of Definition 109 7 Fundraising 117 8 Collection Management 131 9 Museum Education 139 10 Numbers 145 11 Conservation: The Preservation Imperative 155 12 Exhibitions: Show and Tell 167 13 Maintenance and Security 183 14 Museums and the Media 201 15 Architecture 207 16 Volunteers 221 17 Behavior 227 18 Museum Ethics 241 19 What’s Next for Museums? 255 Appendix I: A Course Final 263 Index 267

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Book SynopsisMUSEUM MEDIA Edited by Michelle Henning Museum Media explores the contemporary uses of diverse media in museum contexts and discusses how technology is reinventing the museum. It considers how technological changesfrom photography and television through to digital mobile mediahave given rise to new habits, forms of attention and behaviors. It explores how research methods can be used to understand people's relationships with media technologies and display techniques in museum contexts, as well as the new opportunities media offer for museums to engage with their visitors. Entries written by leading experts examine the transformation of history and memory by new media, the ways in which exhibitions mediate visitor experience, how designers and curators can establish new kinds of relationships with visitors, the expansion of the museum beyond its walls and its insertion into a wider commercial and corporate landscape. Focusing on formal, theoretical and technical aspects of exhibitionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Editor xiii General Editors xiv Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii General Editors’ Preface to Museum Studies and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xix Museum Media: An Introduction xxviiMichelle Henning Part I The Museum as Medium 1 1 Museums and Media Archaeology: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst 3Michelle Henning 2 Media Archaeology of/in the Museum 23Andrew Hoskins and Amy Holdsworth 3 Museums and the Challenge of Transmediation: The Case of Bristol’s Wildwalk 43Nils Lindahl Elliot 4 Mediatized Memory: Video Testimonies in Museums 69Steffi de Jong 5 Visible and Invisible Institutions: Cinema in the French Art Museum 95Jenny Chamarette 6 The Museum as TV Producer: Televisual Form in Curating, Commissioning, and Public Programming 121Maeve Connolly 7 SimKnowledge: What Museums Can Learn from Video Games 145Seth Giddings Part II Mediation and Immersion 165 8 The Life of Things 167Ivan Gaskell 9 Lighting Practices in Art Galleries and Exhibition Spaces, 1750–1850 191Alice Barnaby 10 There’s Something in the Air: Sound in the Museum 215Rupert Cox 11 Aesthetics and Atmosphere in Museums: A Critical Marketing Perspective 235Brigitte Biehl‐Missal and Dirk vom Lehn 12 Museums, Interactivity, and the Tasks of “Exhibition Anthropology” 259Erkki Huhtamo 13 Keeping Objects Live 279Fiona Candlin Part III Design and Curating in the Media Age 303 14 Total Media 305Peter Higgins 15 From Object to Environment: The Recent History of Exhibitions in Germany and Austria 327Bettina Habsburg‐Lothringen [Translated by Mark Miscovich] 16 Museums as Spaces of the Present: The Case for Social Scenography 349Beat Hachler [Translated by Niall Hoskin] 17 (Dis)playing the Museum: Artifacts, Visitors, Embodiment, and Mediality 371Karin Harrasser 18 Transforming the Natural History Museum in London: Isotype and the New Exhibition Scheme 389Sue Perks 19 Embodiment and Place Experience in Heritage Technology Design 419Luigina Ciolfi Part IV Extending the Museum 447 20 Open and Closed Systems: New Media Art in Museums and Galleries 449Beryl Graham 21 Diffused Museums: Networked, Augmented, and Self‐Organized Collections 473John Bell and Jon Ippolito 22 Mobile in Museums: From Interpretation to Conversation 499Nancy Proctor 23 Moving Out: Museums, Mobility, and Urban Spaces 527Mark W. Rectanus 24 Beyond the Glass Case: Museums as Playgrounds for Replication 553Petra Tjitske Kalshoven 25 With and Without Walls: Photographic Reproduction and the Art Museum 577Michelle Henning 26 The Elastic Museum: Cinema Within and Beyond 603Haidee Wasson Index 629

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Book SynopsisMUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites. The volume''s first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum''s new rolesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Editors xiii General Editors xiv Contributors xv Editors’ Preface to Museum Transformations and The International Handbooks of Museum Studies xvii Introduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization xxvAnnie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips Part I Difficult Histories 1 1. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions 3Sibylle Quack 2. Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India 29Kavita Singh 3. The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia 61Bain Attwood 4. Where are the Children? and “We Were So Far Away …”: Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation 85Jonathan Dewar 5. Recirculating Images of the “Terrorist” in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus 113Gabriel Koureas 6. Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 133Mary Bouquet 7. “Congo As It is?”: Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era Exhibition 157Johan Lagae 8. Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile 181Jens Andermann 9. The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women’s Jail as Heritage Site 207Annie E. Coombes Part II Social Agency and the Museum 227 10. An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu 229Lissant Bolton 11. Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum 249Nicholas Thomas 12. The Blackfoot Shirts Project: “Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit” 263Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers 13. “Get to Know Your World”: An Interview with Jim Enote, Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico 289Gwyneira Isaac 14. The Paro Manene Project: Exhibiting and Researching Photographic Histories in Western Kenya 311Christopher Morton and Gilbert Oteyo 15. Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks, and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone 337Paul Basu 16. On Not Looking: Economies of Visuality in Digital Museums 365Kimberly Christen 17. Preserving the Physical Object in Changing Cultural Contexts 387Miriam Clavir Part III Museum Experiments 413 18. The Last Frontier: Migratory Culture, Video, and Exhibiting without Voyeurism 415Mieke Bal 19. Public Art/Private Lives: The Making of Hotel Yeoville 439Tegan Bristow, Terry Kurgan and Alexander Opper 20. Museums, Women, and the Web 471Reesa Greenberg 21. Möbius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia 489Jennifer Kramer 22. When You Were Mine: (Re)Telling History at the National Museum of the American Indian 511Paul Chaat Smith 23. Against the Edifice Complex: Vivan Sundaram’s History Project and the Colonial Museum in India 527Saloni Mathur 24. Can National Museums be Postcolonial?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Obligation of Redress to First Nations 545Ruth B. Phillips Index 575

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Book SynopsisMUSEUM PR ACTICE Edited by CONAL MCCARTHY Museum Practice covers the professional work carried out in museums and art galleries of all types, including the core functions of management, collections, exhibitions, and programs. Some forms of museum practice are familiar to visitors, yet within these diverse and complex institutions many practices are hidden from view, such as creating marketing campaigns, curating and designing exhibitions, developing fundraising and sponsorship plans, crafting mission statements, handling repatriation claims, dealing with digital media, and more. Focused on what actually occurs in everyday museum work, this volume offers contributions from experienced professionals and academics that cover a wide range of subjects including policy frameworks, ethical guidelines, approaches to conservation, collection care and management, exhibition development and public programs. From internal processes such as leadership, governance and strategic planning, to publiTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Editor xiii General Editors xiv Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii Editors’Preface to Museum Practice and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xix Introduction: Grounding Museum Studies: Introducing Practice xxviiConal McCarthy Part I Priorities 1 1. The Essence of the Museum: Mission, Values, Vision 3David Fleming 2. Governance: Guiding the Museum in Trust 27Barry Lord, with Case Study by Rina Gerson 3. Policies, Frameworks, and Legislation: The Conditions Under Which English Museums Operate 43Sara Selwood and Stuart Davies 4. Reconceptualizing Museum Ethics for the Twenty‐First Century: A View from the Field 69Janet Marstine, Jocelyn Dodd, and Ceri Jones 5. Museum Measurement: Questions of Value 97Carol A. Scott 6. Developing Audiences for the Twenty‐First‐Century Museum 123Graham Black Part II Resources 153 7. Balancing Mission and Money: Critical Issues in Museum Economics 155Ted Silberberg and Gail Lord 8. Tate and BP – Oil and Gas as the New Tobacco?: Arts Sponsorship, Branding, and Marketing 179Derrick Chong 9. From Idiosyncratic to Integrated: Strategic Planning for Collections 203James B. Gardner 10. Collection Care and Management: History, Theory, and Practice 221John E. Simmons 11. The Future of Collecting in “Disciplinary” Museums: Interpretive, Thematic, Relational 249Nick Merriman 12. Managing Collections or Managing Content?: The Evolution of Museum Collections Management Systems 267Malcolm Chapman 13. Conservation Theory and Practice: Materials, Values, and People in Heritage Conservation 293Dean Sully Part III Processes 315 14. From Caring to Creating: Curators Change Their Spots 317Ken Arnold 15. The Pendulum Swing: Curatorial Theory Past and Present 341Halona Norton‐Westbrook 16. Planning for Success: Project Management for Museum Exhibitions 357David K. Dean 17. Museum Exhibition Tradecraft: Not an Art, but an Art to It 379Dan Spock 18. Museum Exhibition Practice: Recent Developments in Europe, Canada, and Australia 403Linda Young, with Anne Whitelaw and Rosmarie Beier‐de Haan 19. A Critique of Museum Restitution and Repatriation Practices 431Piotr Bienkowski 20. Rewards and Frustrations: Repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains by the National Museum of Australia 455Michael Pickering Part IV Publics 479 21. The “Active Museum”: How Concern with Community Transformed the Museum 481Elizabeth Crooke 22. Visitor Studies: Toward a Culture of Reflective Practice and Critical Museology for the Visitor‐Centered Museum 503Lee Davidson 23. Translating Museum Meanings: A Case for Interpretation 529Kerry Jimson 24. Learning, Education, and Public Programs in Museums and Galleries 551John Reeve and Vicky Woollard 25. Reviewing the Digital Heritage Landscape: The Intersection of Digital Media and Museum Practice 577Shannon Wellington and Gillian Oliver Afterword: The Continuing Struggle for Diversity and Equality 599Eithne Nightingale Museum Practice and Mediation: An Afterword 613Anthony Alan Shelton Index 635

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally and intellectually. Laura Gray examines what this means for the old hierarchies between art and craft, the identity of the potter, and the character of a discipline tied to a specific material but wanting to participate in critical discussions that extend far beyond clay.Trade Review'This is an essential read for the student of contemporary ceramics, providing a fresh perspective on "post-studio" ceramic practice.' Stephen Dixon, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter OneBecoming Partners?Creative Tension: Defining ceramicsSculpture: A category in danger of collapseThe Art and Craft DivideAn Overview of the BookChapter TwoMonumental MattersMonuments and the Collective MemoryTwo Approaches: The logical and the abstracted monument Ceramics in Civic SpaceWheel of Fortune: Monumentalizing Stoke-on-Trent Making it Big: The monumental styleChapter ThreeThe Numbers Game: Multi-part compositionsDo Numbers Matter?Plane Thinking: Horizonal groupsHigh Rise: Stack, build, repeatThe Expressive Possibility of Repetition Clare Twomey: Master assemblerChapter FourThe Art of Destruction: Ceramics, Sculpture and IconoclasmWhat is Iconoclasm?Iconoclasm and ArtVases and VandalismOut of the Ordinary: Destroying domestic wareClay in CommonPast Imperfect: The art of transformative repairDestruction as Cultural CritiquePlease Do Not Touch: Destruction in the vitrineBiting the hand that feeds? Iconoclasm as institutional critiqueChapter FiveEncounters: Ceramics on ShowThinking About ExhibitionsClay as an Authentic Material for Sculpture: The Raw and the CookedCeramics and Minimalism: The New WhiteCeramics Under Threat: A Secret History of ClayPost-Studio Practice: Possibilities and LossesCeramics for the HomeThe Separation of Art and the HomeHome Coming: Contemporary ceramics in domestic spaceDomesticating the White CubeConclusionRadical PlasticityA Single MaterialWorkmanshipThe VesselThe Current of InfluenceThe Future

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Book SynopsisEngaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field's central methodological concepts and terms. Based on a wide range of case studies, the book is divided into twenty-seven chapters across which cultural, social, and political issues relating to transculturality from Antiquity to today and within both Asian and European regions are explored. Key terms related to the field of transculturality are also discussed within each chapter, and the rich variety of approaches provided by the contributing authors offer the reader an expansive look into the field of transculturality. Offering a wealth of expertise, and equipped with a selection of illustrations, thTable of ContentsPart I: Delineating Transculturality; Part II: Transcultural Spaces and Agents; Part III: Transcultural Temporalities; Part IV: Transcultural Semantics; Part V: The Transcultural Lens

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic models through which these practices can be understood to function critically. Each chapter focuses on a single exhibition: Isa Genzken's OIL (German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007), Geoffrey Farmer's midcareer survey (Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, 2008), Rachel Harrison's Consider the Lobster (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009), and Liz Magor's The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2008).Trade Review"This book is an argument for paying more attention to the material conditions of sculpture—not as a return to formalism, but as a powerful and necessary tool to cut through the lingo of installation art and the capaciousness of digital culture."- Gloria Sutton, Northeastern University ArtTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rachel Harrison: "Consider the Lobster" 2. Isa Genzken: "OIL" 3. Geoffrey Farmer: "Me into Many" 4. Liz Magor: "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New Yorkâs built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New Yorkâs modernization and cosmopolitanismâthe product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the cityâs economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New Yorkâs late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the cityâs cultural ascendancy.Trade Review"Those of us who teach should ask our university librarians to purchase the ebook in addition to the hardcover, so that individual essays can be downloaded, paired, and assigned to students in our undergraduate classes. All are well written and eminently readable by students and scholars alike."--Nineteenth-Century Art WorldwideTable of ContentsIntroduction Margaret R. Laster and Chelsea BrunerPart I. Creating the Art and Cultural Capital1. Looking West from the Empire City: National Landscape and Visual Culture in Gilded Age New York David Scobey2. The François Premier Style in New York: The William K. and Alva Vanderbilt HouseKevin D. Murphy3. Aestheticizing Tendencies in Hudson River School Landscape Painting at the Beginning of the Gilded AgeAlan WallachPart II. Institutionalizing Art and Culture in the Capital4. The Lenox Library: New York’s Lost Treasure HouseSally Webster5. Publishing and Promoting a New York City Art World: Scribner’s Illustrated Monthly, 1870–1881Page Knox 6. An Unsung Hero: Henry Gurdon Marquand and His 1889 Gift to The Metropolitan Museum of ArtEsmée Quodbach7. Metropolitan, Inc.: Public Subsidy and Private Gain at the Genesis of the American Art MuseumJohn Ott8. Un-Domesticating the Ideal: William Wetmore Story and The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLauren LessingPart III. Depicting the Capital in Art and Culture9. Before the Farragut: Who Was Augustus Saint-Gaudens? Thayer Tolles10. Crossing Broadway: New York and the Culture of Capital in the Late Nineteenth CenturyDavid Jaffee11. Bulls, Bears, and Buildings: William Holbrook Beard’s Wall StreetRoss BarrettAfterword Joshua Brown

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Book SynopsisIn any museum, gallery, or heritage site that wishes to engage with foreign-language visitors, translation is essential. Providing texts in foreign languages whether for international visitors from different language cultures or for heritage speakers of local minority languages is centrally important in enabling these visitors to make sense of what they see displayed. Yet despite this awareness, and a growing body of research in the field, there has hitherto been little available in the way of practical training in this area of translation. This book aims to help fill that need.Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites focuses on the translation of interpretive and information texts, particularly in the museum context. After an initial introduction and an overview of key concepts in both museums and translation, it looks at three broad groupings of texts from the museum text system: fixed labels and wall panels, leaflets and other portable learning resour

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, law, Indigenous studies, history, folklore studies, and policy, this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of thiTable of Contents1. IntroductionHaidy Geismar and Jane AndersonPart OneLegal Orderings of Cultural Property2. Heritage vs. Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial FieldValdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup3. The Criminalisation of the Illicit Trade in Cultural PropertyAna Filipa Vrdoljak 4. Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention by the United States and Other Market NationsPatty Gerstenblith5. Protection not Prevention: The Failure of Public Policy to Prevent the Looting and Illegal Trade of Cultural Property from the Mena Region (1990-2015) Neil Brodie6. A Paradox of Cultural Property: NAGPRA and (Dis)PossessionSusan BentonPart TwoMuseums, Archives and Communities7. NAGPRA, CUI and Institutional Will Rae Gould8. Betting on the Raven: Ethical Relationality and Nuxalk Cultural PropertyJennifer Kramer9. Whose Story is This? Complexities and Complicities of Using Archival FootageFred Myers10. The Archive of the Archive: the Secret History of the Laura Boulton CollectionAaron Fox11. Touching the Intangible: Reconsidering Material Culture in the Realm of Indigenous Cultural Property ResearchGeorge NicholasPart ThreeLocal Histories12. On the Nature of Patrimonio: Cultural Property in Mexican ContextsSandra Rozental13. Making and Unmaking Heritage Value in ChinaShu Li Wang and Michael Rowlands14. Object Movement: UNESCO, Language and the Exchange of Middle Eastern ArtifactsMorag Kersel15. Cultures of Property: Ghanaian Culture in Intellectual and Cultural PropertyBoatema BoatengPart FourCultural Property Beyond the State16. Culture as a Flexible Concept for the Legitimation of Policies in the European UnionStefan Groth and Regina Bendix17. The Bible as Cultural Property? A Cautionary TaleNeil Asher Silberman18. Being pre-Indigenous: Kin, Accountability and Cultural Property Beyond TraditionPaul Tapsell19. Frontiers of Cultural Property in the Global SouthRosemary CoombeSection FiveNew and Experimental Forms of Cultural Property20. Who Owns Yoga? Transforming Traditions as Cultural PropertySita Reddy21.Bones, Documents and DNA: Cultural Property at the Margins of the LawLee Douglas22. Collaborative Encounters in Digital Cultural Property: Tracing Temporal Relationships of Context and LocalityJane Anderson and Maria Montenegro23. Animating Language: Continuing Inter-Generational Indigenous Language KnowledgeShannon Faulkhead, John Bradley and Brent McKee24. Ancestors for Sale in Aotearoa New ZealandMarama Muru Lanning

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Book SynopsisCultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently, the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management, and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies.Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage Trade Review"This book is … about the various ways to engage with cultural heritage in the light of ‘futures thinking’. Through its carefully selected mix of theoretical and practical case studies, it will undoubtedly become a flagship text for anyone interested in exploring the interconnections between cultural heritage and the future." - Antiquity"The book is illuminating and provides a valuable compendium and a fascinating timeline for the last decade of thinking." - News in Conservation, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic WorksTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: Cultural heritage as a futuristic field; Section 1: The future in heritage studies and heritage management; 2. Heritage practices as future-making practices; 3. Heritage, thrift, and our children’s children; 4. Perceptions of the future in preservation strategies (Or: Why Eyssl von Eysselsberg’s body is no longer taken across the lake); 5. The future and management of ICH in China from a legal perspective; Section 2: The future in cultural heritage; 6. Decolonizing the future. Folk art environments and the temporality of heritage; 7. The spectre of non-completion: An archaeological approach to half-built buildings; 8. An archaeology of Cold War armageddonism through the lens of Scientology; 9. Future visions and the heritage of space: Nostalgia for infinity; Section 3: Re-thinking heritage futures; 10. What lies ahead? Nuclear waste as cultural heritage of the future; 11. The future in the past, the past in the future; 12. Radioactive heritage of the future: A legacy of risk; Section 4: Heritage and future-making; 13. Sustainability, intergenerational equity, and pluralism: Can heritage conservation create alternative futures?; 14. Palliative curation and future persistence: Life after death; 15. The future, atemporality, and heritage: "Yesterday´s tomorrow is not today"; 16. Heritages of futures thinking: Strategic foresight and critical futures; 17. Final reflections: The future of heritage

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Book SynopsisMore than half of the world's population now live in urban areas, and cities provide the setting for contemporary challenges such as population growth, mass tourism and unequal access to socio-economic opportunities. Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability examines the impact of these issues on urban heritage, considering innovative approaches to managing developmental pressures and focusing on how taking an ethical, inclusive and holistic approach to urban planning and heritage conservation may create a stronger basis for the sustainable growth of cities in the future.This volume is a timely analysis of current theories and practises in urban heritage, with particular reference to the conflict between, and potential reconciliation of, conservation and development goals. A global range of case studies detail a number of distinct practical approaches to heritage on international, national and local scales. Chapters reveal the disjunctions between inTable of ContentsEditor’s IntroductionCh. 1 Approaches to Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, United KingdomEmeritus Prof William Logan, Deakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaPart I. Implementing International Frameworks at the National LevelCh. 2 In the slipstream of development: World Heritage and development-induced displacement in Laos Kearrin Sims, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaProf Tim Winter, Deakin University, AustraliaCh. 3 World Heritage, Poverty and Development: a disconnect? Answers from Island of Mozambique, Mozambique Albino Jopela. Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique.Ch. 4 Interrogating communities of expertise on urban conservation and development: past and future of ‘public and open spaces’ in the old city of Tunis Bianca Maria Nardella and Elisabete Cidre, University College, London, United Kingdom Ch. 5 Challenges for Implementing UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape in CanadaDr Stacey Jessiman de Nanteuil, Stanford University, United States of AmericaCh. 6 Using the Historic Urban Landscape to reimagine Ballarat: the Local ContextKristal Buckley, Deakin University, AustraliaDr Steven Cooke, Deakin University, Australia Susan Fayad, City of Ballarat, AustraliaCh. 7 Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Urban Environment – Some Experiences Gained from Implementing UNESCO’s 2003 ConventionDr Janet Blake, Lecturer in Law, Uni. of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, IranPart II. Reconciling Urban Heritage Conservation and Development?Ch. 8 The Impacts of Culture and Heritage-led Development Programs: the Cases of Liverpool (UK) and Lille (France) Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, United KingdomCh. 9 Management Strategies for Historic Towns in Europe Emeritus Prof. Robert Pickard, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United KingdomCh. 10 Corporate Visual Impact on Historic Urban LandscapeDr Celia Martinez Yanez, University of Granada, Spain Ch. 11 From Zero Sum Game to Arranged Marriage: The Struggle between Built Heritage Conservation and Urban Development in Post-colonial Hong Kong Dr Lee Ho Yin, University of Hong Kong, ChinaProf. Lynne DiStefano, University of Hong Kong, ChinaCh. 12 Cuba as ‘Exception’: UNESCO’s Historic Urban Landscape Approach, Integral Development and the Changing Management of Historic Centres in Late Socialist CubaDr Matthew J. Hill, University of Massachusetts, United StatesDr Maki Tanaka, University of California Berkeley, United StatesPart III. Grass-roots Heritage and Bottom-up ApproachesCh. 13 Stakeholder Involvement: A Necessary Condition for the Sustainable Preservation of the Urban HeritageDr Eduardo Rojas, consultant, World Bank, United States of AmericaCh. 14 Whose Heritage? Conflicting Narratives and Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Heritage Management in Yangon, MyanmarEmeritus Prof William Logan, Deakin University, AustraliaCh. 15 Living heritage, community participation and sustainability: redefining development strategies in Hoi An Ancient Town World Heritage property, Viet NamPham Thi Thanh Huong, UNESCO Office, Hanoi, VietnamCh. 16 Deep Ecology and Hauz Khas Village Heritage for Delhi Megacity PlanningDr Yamini Narayanan, Deakin University, Australia

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Book SynopsisEmotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England, Smith argues that obtaining insights into how visitors use such sites enables us to understand the impact and consequences of professional heritage and museological practices. The concept of registers of engagement is introduced to assess variations in how visitors use museums and sites that address national or dissonant histories and the political consequences of their use. Visitors are revealed as agents in the roles cultural institutions play in maintaining or challenging the political and social status quo. Heritage is, Smith argues, about people and their social situatedness and the meaning they, alongside or in concert with cultural institutions, make and mobilTrade Review"Based on a massive amount of empirical research – conducted across continents and years – this ambitious book is a major contribution to heritage debates. Written with verve and clarity, its importance goes far beyond its crucial message that we need to take the emotional dimensions of heritage seriously. In Emotional Heritage, Laurajane Smith not only presents this groundbreaking project but also robustly sets out her analytical stall and manifesto for heritage studies." – Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany"Based on a massive amount of empirical research – conducted across continents and years – this ambitious book is a major contribution to heritage debates. Written with verve and clarity, its importance goes far beyond its crucial message that we need to take the emotional dimensions of heritage seriously. In Emotional Heritage, Laurajane Smith not only presents this groundbreaking project but also robustly sets out her analytical stall and manifesto for heritage studies." – Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany"This well-researched and easily accessible book is major contribution to both heritage and emotion studies." - Sandra Engels, KULT_onlineTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Heritage, Politics and Emotion; 1. Critical realist heritage studies: Agency, reflexivity and materiality; 2. Reconsidering heritage and identity: The politics of recognition and the affective practices of heritage.; 3. Registers of engagement; Part II: Methods and Quantitative Findings; 4. Methods; 5. Overall findings and national comparisons; 6. Genres of museums and heritage sites: Comparisons; 7. Demographic variables and visitor responses; Part III: Emotional Heritage: Themes and Performances; 8. Reassessing learning: Changing views and deepening understanding; 9. Performing reinforcement and affirmation: ‘It just reinforces a lot of the stuff I think’; 10. Emotional banality and heritage-making: The banality of grandiloquence revisited; 11. Intergenerational communication and connection; 12. Heritage and the politics of recognition; 13. Heritage, privilege and the politics of misrecognition; 14. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence.This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examinaTrade ReviewThis book will appeal to those engaging with practical history. Each chapter explores Public History whilst engaging with current critical stances. International writers, using academic contexts, clearly illustrate important differences between nations and localities, developing new aspects of Public History. * Hilda Kean, Former Director of Public History, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK *The interrogative title poses an important question. It is answered in wonderfully diverse essays: eleven map the terrain of public history in distinct national contexts; nine examine particular methods and approaches, many across contexts; and four focus on specific sites with striking comparative or trans-national implications. This triangulation complements the editors’ intriguing and suggestive subtitle—‘working with the past in the present”: the collection as a whole is considerably more than the sum of the individually impressive parts. * Michael Frisch, Senior Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor in History, University of Buffalo, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction The Public Turn: History Today, Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik Section 1: Background, Definitions and Issues 1. Public History in Australia: History in Place, Lisa Murray and Mark Dunn 2. Public History in Britain: Repossessing the Past, Mark Donnelly 3. Public History in Canada: Service or Public Service?, Mike Dove and Michelle Hamilton 4. Public History in China: Past Making in the Present, Li Na 5. Public History in Germany: Opening New Spaces, Thorsten Logge and Nico Nolden 6. Public History in India: Towards a People’s Past, Indira Chowdhury and Srijan Mandal 7. Public History in Indonesia: The Old Disorder?, Paul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney 8. Public History in New Zealand: From Treaty to Te Papa, Alex Trapeznik 9. Public History in Scandinavia: Uses of the Past, Anne Brædder 10. Public History in South Africa: A Tool for Recovery, Julie Wells 11. Public History in the USA: Institutionalizing Old Practices, Thomas Cauvin Section 2: Approaches and Methods 12. First Encounters: Approaching the Public Past, Meg Foster 13. Affective Afterlives: Public History, Archaeology and the Material Turn, Denis Byrne 14. The Archaeological Archive: Material Traces and Recovered Histories, Tracy Ireland 15. Archives and Public History: A Developing Partnership, Jeannette Bastian and Stephanie Krauss 16. ‘Speak, Memory’: Current Issues in Oral and Public History, Paula Hamilton 17. Who do you Think You Are?: The Family in Public History, Anna Green 18. Love Thy Neighbour: Local and Community history, Tanya Evans 19. Grass-Roots Activism, Heritage and Cultural Landscape: A Community Case Study, Keir Reeves and Jacqueline Z. Wilson 20. Past Continuous: Digital public history and social media, Serge Noiret Section 3: Sites of Public History 21. Remembering Dark Pasts and Horrific Places: Sites of Conscience, Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson 22. #Fake History: The State of Heritage Interpretation, Sue Hodges 23. ‘The air still rings with the excitement of Spanish life’: Ybor City and the Cuban Cigar, Christopher J. Castañeda 24. Forgetting and Remembering in Bhopal: Architects as Agents of Memory, Amritha Ballal and Moulshri Joshi Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInge Daniels is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.Trade ReviewThe text and illustration of this book are attractive, even beautiful. The writing is very clear, and the material on the variety of visitors and their responses is both original and rich. * George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine, USA *Given that exhibitions are such a constant presence in our contemporary world, it is surprising how rarely we concern ourselves with what they actually do. But Inge Daniels, a thoughtful, scholarly and responsible anthropologist, asked - what are the consequences of an exhibition? If we provide more opportunities for interaction, and more fully engage the senses of our visitors, what then will they take away from this experience? The major contribution of this book is to show how anthropology itself, when astutely deployed, can provide a means to answer fundamental questions that apply to all exhibitions. * Daniel Miller, UCL, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: What Are Exhibitions For? SPREAD 1: The AHJ booklet: A practical tool to study exhibition visitors Chapter 1. Representational and Performative Knowledge SPREAD 2: Mike - 'There is a connecting memory in my feet' Chapter 2. Photography, Exhibition Design and Atmosphere SPREAD 3: Sue - 'Photography students have been very surprised to learn that what appears to be an actual window is in fact an illusion' Chapter 3. Similarities and Stereotypes SPREAD 4: Jen - 'I was very interested in anime and manga' Chapter 4. To Learn or Not to Learn SPREAD 5: Natasha - 'And I have been putting them in the dishwasher' SPREAD 6: Natalia - 'It's in our shower because it's very useful; Molly - 'It is something I found and can't give away' Chapter 5. Photography, Performance and Play SPREAD 7: Ali - 'I never found England a very interesting place' Conclusion: Exhibitions as Technologies of the Imagination? Notes References

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Book SynopsisWriting Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history, bringing together students and specialists from around the world. This new edition includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors, providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological chapters and object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. Offers global coverage and discTrade ReviewGerritsen and Riello offer us a rich and eclectic collection of essays devoted to the multiple methodologies associated with the study of material artifacts, as well as fascinating and instructive case studies of particular objects, all well-suited for undergraduate teaching and the training of future researchers. That this book should merit a second, and expanded, edition in so short a period (a scant five years) is testament to the vitality of the field of material culture studies. Noteworthy areas of new attention include the political study of objects, the material history of urban space, and the application of new technologies (3-D printing or big data for example) to the study of material culture. If historians have indeed “experienced a Damascene conversion to material culture” as Gerritsen and Riello argue, then surely they should be credited in large measure for bringing it intellectual coherence and a global reach. This book, now expanded, will be essential reading for those who join them. * Anne EC McCants, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *The volume is an impressive collection of different views on material culture, written from anthropological, historical, and art historical perspectives. It should be an essential text in the appreciation of artefacts, and the role they play in the interactions of cultures over time and space. * Ruth Barnes, Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale University Art Gallery, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Material Culture History: Methods, Practices and Disciplines, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello Object in Focus 1. Broken Saints, House Cats, Other Historical Matter, Dana Leibsohn Part I: The Disciplines of Material Culture 1. Material Culture and the History of Art(efacts), Viccy Coltman 2. Written Texts and the Performance of Materiality, Catherine Richardson 3. Anthropology, Archaeology, History and the Material Culture of Lycra®, Kaori O’Connor Object in Focus 2: Material Culture, Archaeology and Defining Modernity: Case Studies in Ceramic Research, David Gaimster Object in Focus 3: Father Amiot’s Cup: A Qing Imperial Porcelain Sent to the Court of Louis XV and - Kee Il Choi Object in Focus 4: Broken Objects: Using Archaeological Ceramics in the Study of Material Culture, Suzanne Findlen Hood Object in Focus 5: Writing Our Maritime Pasts: The Belitung Shipwreck Controversy, Natali Pearson Object in Focus 6: Identity, Heritage and Memorialisation: The Toraja Tongkonan of Indonesia, Kathleen M. Adams Object in Focus 7: History by Design: The UK Board of Trade Design Register, Dinah Eastop Part II: The Methods of Material Culture 4. Spaces of Global Interactions: The Material Landscapes of Global History, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello 5. Material Culture and Materialism: The French Revolution in Wallpaper, Ulrich Lehmann 6. How Things Shape Us: Material Culture and Identity in the Industrial Age, Manuel Charpy Object in Focus 8: Invisible Beds: Health and the Material Culture of Sleep, Sandra Cavallo Object in Focus 9: Material Culture and Sound: A Sixteenth-Century Handbell, Flora Dennis Object in Focus 10: Interwoven Knowledge: The Understanding and Conservation of Three Carpets, Jessica Hallett and Raquel Santos Object in Focus 11: Lustrous Things: Luminosity and Reflection before the Light Bulb, Ann Smart Martin Object in Focus 12: Cosmopolitan Relationships in the Crossroads of the Pacific Ocean, Christina Hellmich Object in Focus 13: Digital Microscopy and Early Modern Embroidery, Stefan Hanß Object in Focus 14: Objects of Emotions: The London Foundling Hospital Tokens, 1741-60, John Styles Object in Focus 15: Time, Wear and Maintenance: The Afterlife of Things, Victoria Kelley Part III: The Preservation and Interpretation of Material Culture 7. The Return of the Wunderkammer: Material Culture in the Museum 225, Ethan W. Lasser 8. Handle with Care: The Future of Curatorial Expertise, Glenn Adamson 9. As Seen on the Screen: Material Culture, Historical Accuracy and the Costume Drama, Hannah Greig Object in Focus 16: Europe 1600-1800 in a Thousand Objects, Lesley Ellis Miller Object in Focus 17: Reading and Writing the Restoration History of an Old French bureau, Carolyn Sargentson Object in Focus 18: Objects of Empire: Museums, Material Culture, and Histories of Empire, John McAleer Object in Focus 19: The Lost Heritage of China: Dismantling Beijing, Digitizing Beijing, Di Lou Object in Focus 20: ‘Black Gold’: Industrial Heritage of the Nineteenth-century Ruhr Area, Christian Kleinschmidt Object in Focus 21: Indigeneity and Race and the Politics of Museum Collections, Beverly Lemire Object in Focus 22: Acts of creation: debating Indigenous American repatriation from Britain, Jack Davy Index

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