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What is Museum Activism (Museum Meanings) about?
Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical to fundamental professional values. Today, although the idea remains controversial, the way we think about the roles and responsibilities of museums as knowledge based, social institutions is changing. Museum Activism examines the increasing significance of this activist trend in thinking and practice. At this crucial time in the evolution of museum thinking and practice, this ground-breaking volume brings together more than fifty contributors working across six continents to explore, analyse and critically reflect upon the museum’s relationship to activism. Including contributions from practitioners, artists, activists and researchers, this wide-ranging examination of new and divergent expressions of the inherent power of museums as forces for good, and as activists in civil society, aims t
Who reads Museum Activism (Museum Meanings)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert R. Janes (editor), Richard Sandell (editor)
- Publisher
- Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781351251037
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Political Science, Science
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