{"product_id":"museum-transformations-9781119642046","title":"Museum Transformations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS\u003c\/b\u003e DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited \u003csmall\u003eB\u003c\/small\u003ey ANNIE E. COOMBES \u003csmall\u003eAND\u003c\/small\u003e RUTH B. PHILLIPS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuseum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 roles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Editors xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Preface to \u003ci\u003eMuseum Transformations \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe International Handbooks of Museum Studies \u003c\/i\u003exvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization xxv\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Difficult Histories 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSibylle Quack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKavita Singh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBain Attwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eWhere are the Children? \u003c\/i\u003eand “\u003ci\u003eWe Were So Far Away …\u003c\/i\u003e”: Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Dewar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Recirculating Images of the “Terrorist” in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriel Koureas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Bouquet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. “Congo As It is?”: Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the \u003ci\u003eMemory of Congo: The Colonial Era \u003c\/i\u003eExhibition 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohan Lagae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJens Andermann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women’s Jail as Heritage Site 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnie E. Coombes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Social Agency and the Museum 227\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLissant Bolton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Blackfoot Shirts Project: “Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit” 263\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison K. Brown and Laura Peers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. “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 289\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGwyneira Isaac\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The \u003ci\u003eParo Manene \u003c\/i\u003eProject: Exhibiting and Researching Photographic Histories in Western Kenya 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Morton and Gilbert Oteyo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks, and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone 337\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Basu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. On Not Looking: Economies of Visuality in Digital Museums 365\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKimberly Christen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Preserving the Physical Object in Changing Cultural Contexts 387\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiriam Clavir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Museum Experiments 413\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. The Last Frontier: Migratory Culture, Video, and Exhibiting without Voyeurism 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMieke Bal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Public Art\/Private Lives: The Making of \u003ci\u003eHotel Yeoville \u003c\/i\u003e439\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTegan Bristow, Terry Kurgan and Alexander Opper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Museums, Women, and the Web 471\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReesa Greenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Möbius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia 489\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Kramer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. When You Were Mine: (Re)Telling History at the National Museum of the American Indian 511\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Chaat Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Against the Edifice Complex: Vivan Sundaram’s \u003ci\u003eHistory Project \u003c\/i\u003eand the Colonial Museum in India 527\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaloni Mathur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Can National Museums be Postcolonial?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Obligation of Redress to First Nations 545\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth B. Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 575\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49989907120471,"sku":"9781119642046","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119642046.jpg?v=1739542407","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/museum-transformations-9781119642046","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}