Museum Theory de A Witcomb

Museum Theory

A Witcomb

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2020

MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGE Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced. Organized around three themes--Thinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory--the text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.

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ANDREA WITCOMB is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and Deputy Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Victoria, Australia. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research, locating her work at the intersection of history, museology, and cultural studies. KYLIE MESSAGE is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her research examines the relationships between cultural organizations, citizenship, government, and political reform movements.

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List of Illustrations ix Editors xiii General Editors xiv Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii Editors' Preface to Museum Theory and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xix Introduction - Museum Theory: An Expanded Field xxvii Andrea Witcomb and Kylie Message Part I Thinking about Museums 1 1. Thinking (with) Museums: From Exhibitionary Complex to Governmental Assemblage 3 Tony Bennett 2. Foucault and the Museum 21 Kevin Hetherington 3. What, or Where, Is the (Museum) Object?: Colonial Encounters in Displayed Worlds of Things 41 Sandra H. Dudley 4. Anarchical Artifacts: Museums as Sites for Radical Otherness 63 Janice Baker 5. (Post-) Cartographic Urges: The Intersection of Museums and Tourism 79 Russell Staiff 6. Museums, Human Rights, and Universalism Reconsidered 93 Jennifer Barrett 7. The Democratic Horizons of the Museum: Citizenship and Culture 117 Peter Dahlgren and Joke Hermes 8. Museums, Ecology, Citizenship 139 Toby Miller Part II Disciplines and Politics 157 9. Reflexive Museology: Lost and Found 159 Shelley Ruth Butler 10. The Art of Anthropology: Questioning Contemporary Art in Ethnographic Display 183 Haidy Geismar 11. Change and Continuity: Art Museums and the Reproduction of Art-Museumness 211 Ien Ang 12. Cool Art on Display: The Saatchi Phenomenon 233 Jim McGuigan 13. Contentious Politics and Museums as Contact Zones 253 Kylie Message 14. Emotions in the History Museum 283 Sheila Watson 15. The Presence of the Past: Imagination and Affect in the Museu do Oriente, Portugal 303 Elsa Peralta 16. Toward a Pedagogy of Feeling: Understanding How Museums Create a Space for Cross-Cultural Encounters 321 Andrea Witcomb 17. The Liquid Museum: New Institutional Ontologies for a Complex, Uncertain World 345 Fiona Cameron Part III Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory 363 18. The Displaced Local: Multiple Agency in the Building of Museums' Ethnographic Collections 365 Howard Morphy 19. The World as Collected; or, Museum Collections as Situated Materialities 389 Fredrik Svanberg 20. Ambient Aesthetics: Altered Subjectivities in the New Museum 417 Natalia Radywyl, Amelia Barikin, Nikos Papastergiadis, and Scott McQuire 21. Museum Encounters and Narrative Engagements 437 Philipp Schorch 22. Theorizing Museum and Heritage Visiting 459 Laurajane Smith 23. The Museum in Hiding: Framing Conflict 485 Amelia Barikin, Lyndell Brown, and Charles Green 24. Preserving/Shaping/Creating: Museums and Public Memory in a Time of Loss 511 James B. Gardner 25. Sites of Trauma: Contemporary Collecting and Natural Disaster 531 Liza Dale-Hallett, Rebecca Carland, and Peg Fraser Index 553