Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology. Museums are sites of heritage management and, within Caribbean contexts, essential spaces for examination of post-colonial relationships to past disenfranchisement.

List of contents

SECTION I: Critical Issues in the Representation of Racial and Cultural Identities in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections; 1. Decolonising Caribbean Museum Education Curriculum through Culturally Responsive Curriculum; 2. The Role of Museums in Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Nevis; 3. Forging Community and Cultural Identity during a Pandemic: Collection Digitisation in Haiti And Barbados; SECTION II: Critical Issues in the Repatriation of Caribbean Cultural Heritage in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections; 4. Not In My Name: Heritage Conservation, Collection Care, and Repatriation within Caribbean Collections; 5. Amerindians in the Cupboard: On the Museological Treatment of Pre-Columbian Art in the Caribbean; SECTION III: Critical Issues of Caribbean Museum Management; 6. A Tri-Partite Approach to the Development of the Museum Sector in Trinidad and Tobago

About the author

Daniela Fifi has a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from Manchester University, UK. She is the Editor¿in¿Chief of Viewfinder E¿Journal, and served on the editorial board of Art Education, the official journal of the National Art Education Association (USA).

Product details

• Authors: Daniela Fifi
• Assisted by: Daniela Fifi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032493121
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249312-1
• No. of pages: 114
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; ART / Museum Studies, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Archaeology by period / region, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, National liberation and independence, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Central America