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  • Museum Temporalities

    Time, History and the Future of the (Ethnographic) Museum

    Edited by Wayne Modest, Peter Pels ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums
    Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to the colonial past? Since the nineteenth century, the globalization of the museum has spread specific understandings of permanence and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Decolonizing the Museum

    Art, Activism, and the Question of Race in Curation

    by Chiara De Cesari, Wayne Modest, Marta Pagliuca Pelacani ...
    Series series Museums in Focus
    This book asks what it means to decolonize museums in theory and practice. It explores recent calls by activists and artists for social change in and through museums and how museums have responded to these calls and interventions.The point of departure for this volume is the burgeoning global debates around racism that have compelled many museums and public institutions to confront their ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Victorian Jamaica

    Edited by Tim Barringer, Wayne Modest ...
    Victorian Jamaica explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photographs of plantation laborers and landscape paintings to cricket team photographs, furniture, and architecture, as ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Museums and Communities

    Curators, Collections and Collaboration

    Edited by Viv Golding, Wayne Modest ...
    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 ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Museums, Heritage and International Development

    Edited by Paul Basu, Wayne Modest ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
    While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past

    Curating Heritage, Art and Activism

    Edited by Emma Bijnen, Pepijn Brandon, Karwan Fatah-Black, Imara Limon, Wayne Modest ...
    Institutions across the globe are increasingly questioned on how their foundations are rooted in colonialism and how they aim to ‘decolonize’. The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past provides an overview of critical scholarly reflections on the history of Dutch slavery and colonization, as well as how this translates into critical cultural practices. It also explores possible futures: What can ... Read more

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  • Negotiations in a Vacant Lot

    Studying the Visual in Canada

    by Lynda Jessup, Erin Morton, Kirsty Robertson ...
    Series series McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History
    At a moment when the discipline of Canadian art history seems to be in flux and the study of Canadian visual culture is gaining traction outside of art history departments, the authors of Negotiations in a Vacant Lot were asked: is "Canada" - or any other nation - still relevant as a category of inquiry? Is our country simply one of many "vacant lots" where class, gender, race, ethnicity, and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials

    Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art

    by Panos Kompatsiaris ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and ... Read more

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  • Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere

    Edited by Gerard Delanty, Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Colonial Heritage

    New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe

    Edited by Britta Timm Knudsen, John Oldfield, Elizabeth Buettner, Elvan Zabunyan ...
    Series series Critical Heritages of Europe
    Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like.Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores ... Read more

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  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    by Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

    $57.99 USD