Museum activism / edited by Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell.
"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...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Posterity has arrived: the necessary emergence of museum activism / Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell
- Detoxing and decolonising museums / Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott
- Growing an activist museum professional / Elizabeth Wood and Sarah Cole
- Dividing issues and mission-driven activism: museum responses to migration policies and the refugee crisis / Maria Vlachou
- Access as activism: bringing the museum to the people / Catherine Kudlick and Edward M. Luby
- Fossil fuel sponsorship and the contested museum: agency, accountability and arts activism / Paula Serafini and Chris Garrard
- The activist role of museum staff / Victoria Hollows
- From the ground up: grassroots social justice activism in American museums / Laura-Edythe S. Coleman and Porchia Moore
- Spectacular defiance / Julie McNamara
- "I'm gonna do something": moving beyond talk in the museum / Bernadette Lynch
- Feminism and the politics of friendship in the activist museum / Viv Golding
- Memory exercises: activism, symbolic reparation, and non-repetition in Colombia's National Museum of Memory / Cristina Lleras, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Lina Díaz and Jennifer Carter
- Auto agents: inclusive curatorship and its political potential / Jade French
- Museums as public forums for 21st century societies: a perspective from the national museums and monuments of Zimbabwe / Njabulo Chipangura and Happinos Marufu
- Museums in the climate emergency / Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth
- Activism, objects and dialogues: re-engaging African collections at the Royal Ontario Museum / Silvia Forni, Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine
- Museological activism and cultural citizenship: collecting the Hong Kong umbrella movement / Selina Ho and Vivian Ting
- Museums in the age of intolerance / Sharon Heal
- Activist practice through networks: a case study in museum connections / Mercy McCann
- Whose memories for which future? Favela museums and the struggle for social justice in Brazil / Marcelo Lages Murta
- From vision to action: the journey towards activism at St. Fagans National Museum of History / Sioned Hughes and Elen Phillips
- Active museums: inside out / Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale-Hallett, Tatiana Mauri and Kimberley Moulton
- Quiet is the new loud? : on activism, museums and changing the world / Åshild Andrea Brekke
- Heritage and queer activism / Sean Curran
- The activist spectrum in United States museums / Dina A. Bailey
- Up against it: contending with power asymmetries in museum work / Kevin Coffee
- Taking a position: challenging the anti-authorial turn in art curating / Lynn Wray
- Memory activism and the holocaust memorial institutions of the 21st century / Diana I. Popescu
- Advocacy and activism: a framework for sustainability science in museums / Sandra L. Rodegher and Stacey Vicario Freeman
- Narratives of transformation: stories of impact from activist museums / Jennifer Bergevin
- Memorial museums at the intersection of politics, exhibition and trauma: the study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum / Bridget Conley
- "I attack this work of art deliberately": suffragette activism in the museum / Nicola Gauld
- Museums, activism and social media (or, how Twitter challenges and changes museum practice) / Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher
- Unprecedented times? shifting press perceptions on museums and activism / Jenny Kidd.