Jenny Kidd, Sam Cairns, Alex Drago, Amy Ryall

Challenging History in the Museum (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging History in the Museum explores work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts. It is based on the Challenging History project, which brings together a wide range of heritage professionals, practitioners and academics to explore heritage and museum learning programmes in relation to difficult and controversial subjects. The book draws on work from countries around the world including Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Spain and USA and crosses a number of disciplines: Museum and Heritage Studies, Cultural Policy Studies, Performance Studies, Media Studies and Critical Theory Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317168812
• Artikelnr.: 44876748

Autorenporträt

Jenny Kidd is Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. She is co-editor of Performing Heritage (with Anthony Jackson, 2010), has published widely on museums, new media and participatory practices, and is one of the founding members of the Challenging History network. Sam Cairns manages the Cultural Learning Alliance. Sam has been the Director of the Challenging History network since 2009. Alex Drago has been Education Manager at the Tower of London since 2007, having originally joined Historic Royal Palaces in 2006 to work at Hampton Court Palace. Amy Ryall is External Engagement Projects Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Sheffield, UK . Miranda Stearn is Arts and Heritage Development Co-ordinator at Orleans House Gallery, She is also currently completing a PhD in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Challenging History in the Museum, Jenny Kidd; Part 1 The
Emotional Museum, Alex Drago; Chapter 1 The Emotional Museum: The Case of
National Museums Liverpool, David Fleming; Chapter 2 Telling Hard Truths
and the Process of Decolonising Indigenous Representations in Canadian
Museums, Bryony Onciul; Chapter 3 Ripples in the Pebble Pool: Dark
Narrative as Maxim, Metaphor and Memorial, Alix H.J. Powers-Jones; Chapter
4 Making Them Laugh, Making Them Cry: Theatre's Role in Challenging
History, Judith Bryan; Chapter 5 The Stiftelsen Arkivet Experience: A
Second World War Gestapo Regional Headquarters in Norway, Bjørn Tore
Rosendahl, Ingvild Ruhaven; Part 2 Challenging Collaborations, Amy Ryall;
Chapter 6 Challenging Ourselves: Uncomfortable Histories and Current Museum
Practices, Bernadette Lynch; Chapter 7 Contemporary Challenges: Artist
Interventions in Museums and Galleries Dealing with Challenging Histories,
Miranda Stearn; Chapter 8 Coffee and Cigarettes: On Trust-Building
Processes between the Norwegian Government and the Romani Traveller
Community, Åshild Andrea Brekke; Chapter 9 Fieldnotes from a Challenging
History, David Gunn, Victoria Ward; Part 3 Ethics, Ownership and Identity,
Miranda Stearn; Chapter 10 Vicissitudes of Representation: Remembering and
Forgetting, Juliet Steyn; Chapter 11 Realms of Memory and the Recovery of
the Historical Memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's Dictatorship
(1936-2012), Mikel Errazkin Agirrezabala, Rosa Martínez Rodríguez; Chapter
12 'Unseen Women: Stories from Armagh Gaol': Exhibiting Contrasting
Memories of a Contested Space, Jolene Mairs Dyer; Chapter 13 Borders of
Belonging: The UK Border Agency Museum as a Nation-Building Site, Claire
Sutherland; Chapter 14 Perspectives on the Far East: Understanding War
through Veterans' Eyes, Amy Ryall; Part 4 'Teaching' Challenging History,
Samantha Cairns; Chapter 15 Controversies around the Teaching of Brazilian
'Black History', Verena Alberti; Chapter 16 'To Kill a King?' Interpreting
the Execution of a Monarch, Amanda Shamoon; Chapter 17 Frames of Meaning:
Young People, Historical Consciousness and Challenging History at Museums
and Historic Sites, Ceri Jones; Chapter 18 Challenging Histories -
Challenging Memorialisation: The Holocaust, Judith Vandervelde;