Museums, Equality and Social Justice

Author:   Richard Sandell (University of Leicester, UK) ,  Eithne Nightingale
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415504690


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   23 April 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Richard Sandell (University of Leicester, UK) ,  Eithne Nightingale
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.724kg
ISBN:  

9780415504690


ISBN 10:   0415504694
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   23 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Foreword Introduction Part 1: Margins to the Core? 1. The heart of the matter 2. Museologically speaking: a conversation with Fred Wilson 3. Moving beyond the mainstream: insight into the relationship between community-based heritage organisations and the museum 4. Beyond compliance? Museums, disability and the law 5. Museums for social justice: managing organisational change 6. Fred Wilson, Good Work and the phenomenon of Freud’s Mystic Writing Pad Part 2: Connecting/Competing Equalities 7. The Margins and the Mainstream 8. Cultural diversity: politics, policy and practices. The case of Tate Encounters 9. A question of faith - the museum as a spiritual or secular space 10. A book with its page always open? 11. Unpacking gender: creating complex models for gender inclusivity in museums 12. Museums and autism: creating an inclusive community for learning 13. Museums as intercultural spaces Part 3: Museums and the Good 14. Museums and the human rights frame 15. Creativity, learning and cultural rights 16. Exceeding the limits of representation? Petitioning for constitutional change at the Museum of Australian Democracy 17. Towards social inclusion in Taiwan: museums, equality and indigenous groups 18. Social justice and community participation in non-Western contexts: the Marib museum project in Yemen 19. Embedding shared heritage: human rights discourse and the London Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage 20. Social media towards social change: opportunities and challenges for museums 21. Museums, African Collections and Social Justice Index

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Richard Sandell is Professor and Head of the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and his research interests focus on museums, human rights and equality. He is Series Editor, with Christina Kreps, of Museum Meanings. His books include Museums, Society, Inequality (2002); Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference (2007); Museum Management and Marketing with Robert Janes (2007) and, with Jocelyn Dodd and Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Re-Presenting Disability: activism and agency in the museum (2010). Eithne Nightingale is Head of Diversity and Equality Strategy at the V&A and has worked in equal opportunities, education, community development and museums for over 30 years. She has taken a lead on museum wide equality strategies; collaborated with culturally diverse communities on initiatives encompassing collections research, public programming and partnership development; and has written and lectured extensively on diversity in museums both in the UK and internationally.

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