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This Edited Volume Critically Engages With Contemporary Scholarship On Museums And Their Engagement With The Communities They Purport To Serve And Represent. Foregrounding New Curatorial Strategies, It Addresses A Significant Gap In The Available Literature, Exploring Some Of The Complex Issues Arising From Recent Approaches To Collaboration Between Museums And Their Communities. The Book Unpacks Taken-for-granted Notions Such As Scholarship, Community, Participation And Collaboration, Which Can Gloss Over The Complexity Of Identities And Lead To Tokenistic Claims Of Inclusion By Museums. Over Sixteen Chapters, Well-respected Authors From The Us, Australia And Europe Offer A Timely Critique To Address What Happens When Museums Put Community-minded Principles Into Practice, Challenging Readers To Move Beyond Shallow Notions Of Political Correctness That Ignore Vital Difference In This Contested Field. Contributors Address A Wide Range Of Key Issues, Asking Pertinent Questions Such As How Museums Negotiate The Complexities Of Integrating Collaboration When The Target Community Is A Living, Fluid, Changeable Mass Of People With Their Own Agendas And Agency. When Is Engagement Real As

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Author

Wayne Modest, Vivien Golding, (eds.)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857851321

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Art, Management