Museums, Equality and Social Justice

Name: Museums, Equality and Social Justice
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ISBN: 9780415504690

ISBN-10: 0415504694

ISBN-13: 9780415504690

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard Sandell, Eithne Nightingale

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Museums, Equality and Social Justiceis a provocative, timely and scholarly but accessible collection of essays that brings together more than thirty leading thinkers, practitioners and researchers from wide ranging backgrounds in twenty substantive chapters to critically explore the shifting roles and increasing significance of diversity, equality and social justice in international contemporary museum policy and practice. The volume examines issues of diversity and equality not only in relation to visitors and public programmes but to all areas of museum organisation and activity – including leadership and management, governance, employment, collections development, marketing and so on.The…

Book details

List price: $75.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/23/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Foreword



Acknowledgements


Introduction




Margins to the core?



The heart of the matter: integrating equality and diversity into the policy and practice of museums and galleries




Museologically speaking: an interview with Fred Wilson




Moving beyond the mainstream: insight into the relationship between community-based heritage organizations and the museum




Beyond compliance? Museums, disability and the law




Museums for social justice: managing organisational change




Fred Wilson, good work and the phenomenon of Freud's mystic writing pad




Connecting/competing equalities



The margins and the mainstream




Cultural diversity: politics, policy and practices. The case of Tate Encounters




A question of faith: the museum as a spiritual or secular space




A book with its pages always open?




Unpacking gender: creating complex models for gender inclusivity in museums




Museums and autism: creating an inclusive community for learning




Museums as intercultural spaces




Museums and the good society



Museums and the human rights frame




Creativity, learning and cultural rights




Exceeding the limits of representation? Petitioning for constitutional change at the Museum of Australian Democracy




Towards social inclusion in Taiwan: museums, equality and indigenous groups




Social justice and community participation in non-Western contexts: the Marib Museum Project in Yemen




Embedding shared heritage: human rights discourse and the London Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage




Social media towards social change: potential and challenges for museums




Museums, African collections and social justice



Index