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“annie e coombes”

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  • Museum Transformations

    Decolonization and Democratization

    Edited by Annie E. Coombes, Ruth B. Phillips ...
    MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATIONEdited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPSMuseum 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 ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Managing Heritage, Making Peace

    History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya

    by Annie E. Coombes, Lotte Hughes, Karega Munene ...
    Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At this important juncture, what parts of its history, including the Mau Mau uprising, do citizens and state wish to remember and commemorate and what is best forgotten or occluded? What does heritage mean to ordinary Kenyans, and what role does it play ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • History after Apartheid

    Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa

    by Annie E. Coombes ...
    The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and the beginning of a new struggle to define the nation’s past. History after Apartheid analyzes how, in the midst of the momentous shift to an inclusive democracy, South Africa’s visual and material culture represented the past while at the same time contributing to the process of social ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Exhibiting Cultures

    The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

    by Ivan Karp ...
    Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Heterotopia and the City

    Public Space in a Postcivil Society

    Edited by Michiel Dehaene, Lieven De Cauter ...
    Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Return of Curiosity

    What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edited by Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • What is Urban History?

    by Shane Ewen ...
    Series series What is History?
    Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Joined Forces

    Audience Participation in Theatre. Performing Urgencies #3

    by Jan Sowa, Dominique Nduhura, Antoine Pickels, Justine Boutens, Elena Basteri, Miriam Tscholl, Roger Bernat, Roberto Fratini Serafide, Ophelia Patricio Arrabal, Ana Vujanović, Tobi Müller, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel, Rimini Protokoll, Lotte van den Berg, Tea Tupajić, Tom Sellar, Adelheid Roosen, Wojtek Ziemilski, Adam Czirak, Johanna Freiburg, Bastian Trost, Gob Squad ...
    Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus der Mode. Zeitgenössische Künstler emanzipieren ihr Publikum, laden es auf die Bühne und in die ... Read more

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