The Museum As A Political Instrument

Author : Maria Mikaelyan
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8862427131
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museum as a Political Instrument written by Maria Mikaelyan and published by LetteraVentidue Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembrance and commemoration of traumatic histories are among the major issues of today’s international museological practice. By means of architectural and exhibition design, contemporary museums pose questions concerning history, memory, national identity, alternative perceptions of the past. The present essay poses theoretical questions concerning the impact of a national political discourse on the commemoration of difficult and contentious pasts, as well as the top-down instrumentalization of architectural and exhibition design in the realm of contemporary Russian museological practice.

Author : Maria Mikaelyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788862425445
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museum as a Political Instrument. Post-Soviet Memories and Conflicts written by Maria Mikaelyan and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy W. Luke
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452906096
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum Politics written by Timothy W. Luke and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136115161
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of the Museum written by Tony Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors. Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture. Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place. This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government. For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to their reading list.

Author : Ivan Karp
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343456
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museums and Communities written by Ivan Karp and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.

Author : Konstantin S. Sharov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811906955
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender as a Political Instrument Forming New Boundaries by Ethnic and Religious Diasporas in European Union written by Konstantin S. Sharov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers gender as a convenient tool for making new boundaries within the European Union. It offers a political analysis based on sociological surveys conveyed by the author in 2008–2021. It emphasises the utmost necessity of a proper understanding of specific gender political technologies applied in ethnic and religious diasporas within the EU borders, by EU ruling elites, to avoid ideological collapse in relations with diaspora political groups and general members. The book demonstrates that uncritical application of EU gender equality programs within diasporas may transform gender to a dangerous political force destabilising the European Union. The monograph will be of interest for political science researchers, legislators, and administrators that work with political dimension of gender.

Author : Kylie Message
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134663692
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museums and Social Activism written by Kylie Message and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown story about museological transformation and curatorial activism that occurred in the Division of Political and Reform History at the National Museum of American History at this time. Based on interdisciplinary field-based research that has brought together cross-cultural and international perspectives from the fields of Museum Studies, Public History, Political Science and Social Movement Studies with empirical investigation, the book explores and analyses museums’ – specifically, curators’ – relationships with political stakeholders past and present. By understanding the transformations of an earlier period, Museums and Social Activism offers provocative perspectives on the cultural and political significance of contemporary museums. It highlights the relevance of past practice and events for museums today and improved ways of understanding the challenges and opportunities that result from the ongoing process of renewal that museums continue to exemplify.

Author : Patricia West
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344258
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domesticating History written by Patricia West and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.

Author : Ivan Karp
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343693
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exhibiting Cultures written by Ivan Karp and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.

Author : Joyce Apsel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429647190
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museums and Sites of Persuasion written by Joyce Apsel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights, democracy and peace. Demonstrating that such sites have the potential to act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation, the book also shows that there are perils in the selective memory and history that they present. Examining a range of museums, memorials and exhibits in places as varied as Burundi, Denmark, Georgia, Kosovo, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam and the US, this volume demonstrates how they represent and try to come to terms with difficult histories. As sites of persuasion, the contributors to this book argue, their public goal is to use memory and education about the past to provide moral lessons to visitors that will encourage a more democratic and peaceful future. However, the case studies also demonstrate how political, economic and social realities often undermine this lofty goal, raising questions about how these sites of persuasion actually function on a daily basis. Straddling several interdisciplinary fields of research and study, Museums and Sites of Persuasion will be essential reading for those working in the fields of museum studies, memory studies, and genocide studies. It will also be essential reading for museum practitioners and anyone engaged in the study of history, sociology, political science, anthropology and art history. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.