Theorizing Museums - Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World

This volume brings together international contributions to show how social and cultural theory can provide new insights to the debate about museums. Analytical perspectives on the museum are drawn from the anthropology and sociology of globalization, time, space and consumption.

List of contents

Introduction: Sharon Macdonald (Sheffield University).
Part I: Contexts: Spaces and Times: .

1. Museums and Globalization: Martin Prosler (Tubingen, Germany).

2. How Societies Remember the Past: John Urry (Lancaster University).

Part II: Contests: Differences and Identities: .

3. Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair: Vera Zolberg (New School of Social Research, New York).

4. Into the Heart of Irony: Ethnographic Exhibitions and the Politics of Difference: Henrietta Riegel (York University, Canada).

5. Seeing through Solidity: Feminist Perspectives on Museums: Gaby Porter (Manchester Museum of Science and Industry).

6. Decoding the Visitors Gaze: Rethinking Museum Visiting: Gordon Fyfe and Max Ross (Keele University).

Part III: Contents: Classifications and Practice: .

7. The Utopics of Social Ordering: Stonehenge as a Museum without Walls: Kevin Hetherington (Keele University).

8. Maintaining Boundaries, or Mainstreaming Black History in a White Museum: Eric Gable (Yale University).

9. A Trojan Horse at the Tate: Theorizing the Museum as Agency and Structure: Gordon Fyfe (Keele University).

Product details

• Authors: Fyfe, Baker Sidney Macdonald, Fiona MacDonald, Sharon MacDonald, Sharon Fyfe Macdonald
• Assisted by: Gordon Fyfe (Editor), Sharon MacDonald (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.1998
• EAN: 9780631201519
• ISBN: 978-0-631-20151-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Sociological Review Monograph; Sociological Review Monographs; The Sociological Review Monographs; Sociological Review Monograph
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology