Museum Activism: Museum Meanings
Editat de Robert R. Janes, Richard Sandellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 ian 2019
Considerăm că Museum Activism reprezintă un punct de cotitură în literatura de specialitate, propunând o viziune radicală și interdisciplinară asupra rolului instituțiilor culturale. Volumul nu se limitează la teoria muzeală, ci intersectează sociologia, politologia și studiile de mediu pentru a redefini muzeul ca resursă civică activă. Dacă în urmă cu un deceniu activismul în muzee era privit cu scepticism, această lucrare demonstrează că implicarea în problemele stringente ale societății — de la nedreptăți sociale la criza climatică — a devenit o responsabilitate profesională.
Textul extinde cadrul propus de Museums and Social Activism de Kylie Message cu date noi din realitatea contemporană, acoperind șase continente și oferind o perspectivă globală asupra rezistenței instituționale. Structura cărții este concepută pentru a ghida cititorul de la fundamentele teoretice ale „activismului necesar” către studii de caz concrete, precum decolonizarea practicilor de curatoriat sau gestionarea etică a sponsorizărilor. Capitolele semnate de practicieni și cercetători analizează critic modul în care personalul muzeal poate deveni un agent al schimbării, depășind simplul discurs teoretic.
În contextul operei editorilor, Museum Activism sintetizează temele recurente ale lui Robert R. Janes, vizibile în Museums in a Troubled World, unde acesta chestiona relevanța muzeelor în fața colapsului societal. Această nouă lucrare oferă însă soluții practice și exemple de „sfidare spectaculoasă”, transformând pesimismul analizelor anterioare într-un manifest pentru acțiune. Este o resursă esențială pentru curriculumul academic, oferind studenților și profesioniștilor instrumentele necesare pentru a naviga într-un peisaj cultural tot mai politizat și mai conștient de impactul său social.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0815369972
Pagini: 436
Ilustrații: 5 Tables, black and white; 35 Halftones, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Museum Meanings
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate, Professional, and UndergraduateDe ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte tuturor specialiștilor din muzee, managerilor culturali și studenților la studii de patrimoniu care doresc să înțeleagă cum pot instituțiile de cultură să adreseze activ inegalitățile și criza climatică. Veți câștiga o perspectivă globală asupra practicilor de decolonizare și activism social, transformând muzeul dintr-un spațiu de conservare pasivă într-un motor al schimbării în societatea civilă.
Despre autor
Robert R. Janes și Richard Sandell sunt figuri centrale în muzeologia contemporană. Janes, cu o experiență de peste 40 de ani, a explorat constant responsabilitatea socială a muzeelor în lucrări precum Museums without Borders, militând pentru relevanța acestora în fața problemelor globale. Sandell este cunoscut pentru cercetările sale privind egalitatea și drepturile omului în context muzeal, editând volume de referință precum Museums, Equality and Social Justice. Împreună, aceștia coordonează seria Museum Meanings la editura Routledge, fiind voci autoritare în definirea noilor paradigme ale profesiei.
Descriere scurtă
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 to encourage further experimentation and enrich the debate in this nascent and uncertain field of museum practice.
Museum Activism elucidates the largely untapped potential for museums as key intellectual and civic resources to address inequalities, injustice and environmental challenges. This makes the book essential reading for scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, gallery studies, arts and heritage management, and politics. It will be a source of inspiration to museum practitioners and museum leaders around the globe.
Cuprins
Notă biografică
Richard Sandell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. His research and practice is concerned with the social roles and responsibilities of museums, galleries and heritage sites and, in particular, their capacity to shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are experienced.
Recenzii
- Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
'Are museums shrines to the past, hubs of engagement for the present, or shapers of the future? Assembling dozens of contributions by leading and new voices in museum studies, Museum Activism targets the core values and principles guiding museum practice today with the aim of transforming the way we think about the social role of museums. This book offers a deep reflection on the limits and potential for museum activism at a time of deepening economic inequality and environmental collapse, a bold call for action for the international museum community, and a field guide to museum activism in practice. Slaying the zombie myth of institutional neutrality that excuses institutional complacency and inaction, it argues for a vision of the museum as an ally and agent of change. Activists around the world are calling on museums to leverage their cultural power to help shape the future for the common good. This book is an insider’s guide to making it happen.'
- Beka Economopoulos, Founding Director of The Natural History Museum, USA, a traveling museum and museum transformation project
'Janes and Sandell have assembled a powerful volume of essays that encourages museums to transform themselves from precious vaults into active agents of social justice. Museum Activism is a collective call for museums to become more mindful, moral, and courageous places of conscience. These timely essays challenge museums to become more aware of the toxic legacies and current devastation of colonialism, imperialism, xenophobia, homophobia, racism and sexism and to become unafraid in "addressing the big problems and the big questions" that confront us globally. This publication provides a needed wake-up call, a radical re-imagining of museums and a range of practical strategies for action!'
- Jennifer Scott, Director & Chief Curator of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Museum Activism features 34 essays by 50 authors from 14 countries on six continents that look at how museums are working as activists on issues, such as climate change, decolonization, sustainability, the Holocaust, the refugee crises, feminism, politics and queer activism, human rights and poverty.
-Rob Alexander, Rocky Mountain Outlook
The 53 authors involved in this book did a fabulous job in translating their engagement and research into language for an academic publication that is understandable and able to convey the reasons behind their personal engagement. As the editors stated in the introduction, a book with such a big topic can only be “partial and particular” but the book is an valuable orientation within the discourse and will provide many points of reference for future research. I found this book comforting as I resonated with many of the frustrations shared in the chapters and it did make me hopeful to be reminded that there is a whole community out there doing important work.
-Anabel Roque Rodríguez, Anabel Roque Rodríguez Blog
The book is a strong collection of essays on activist museum practices around the world and it deserves a wide readership, not just by museum workers, but also by people who are unconvinced by claims that museums are entitled to and worthy of support[...] The world is full of racists, homophobes, misogynists and climate breakdown deniers. They continue to resist the notion that museums can never be, and should stop pretending to be, neutral[...] But resistance is rendered far more difficult as a result of the existence of this book.
-David Fleming, Museums Journal
"This publication is vital reading for those arts managers who are interested in progressing their own activist ideas or activism within their organisations. It is primarily suitable those working in the museums and heritage sectors, but as many of the case studies touch on wider fields, it is also highly relevant for those working in arts, community learning and science engagement settings...Altogether, it is an excellent publication providing theoretical and practical examples of how museums can embrace activism and be harnessed as a force for good."
- Arts Management, 2019
"Bringing together a well-selected collection of current and best practice activism by and at museums across a global community spanning six continents, Museum Activism builds upon existing linkages between social protest and reform movements and transformations within museum scholarship and practice"
- Kylie Message & Eleanor Foster, Museum Management and Curatorship
"Museum Activism is undoubtedly the most influential scholarly book I’ve read in recent times. It is a book that demands multiple readings, a resource that discloses new meanings every time it is consulted, a body of reference that untangles the complex interpretations of a concept which is still uncomfortable for many of us working in the museum field." - Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director, Science Gallery International