Museums, equality, and social justice
"Museums, Equality and Social Justice aims to reflect on and, crucially, to inform debates in museum research, policy and practice at this critical time. It brings together new research from academics and practitioners and insights from artists, activists and commentators to explore the ways in which museums, galleries and heritage organisations are engaging with the fast-changing equalities terrain and the shifting politics of identity at global, national and local levels and to investigate their potential to contribute to more equitable, fair and just societies."--Back cover
xxii, 314 pages, [24] pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
9780415504683, 9780415504690, 9780203120057, 0415504686, 0415504694, 0203120051
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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