{"product_id":"museum-theory-isbn-9781119642084","title":"Museum Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMUSEUM THEORY\u003c\/b\u003e EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB \u003csmall\u003eAND\u003c\/small\u003e KYLIE MESSAGE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuseum Theory\u003c\/i\u003e offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized around three themes—Thinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice\/Practicing Theory—the text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Editors xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Preface to \u003ci\u003eMuseum Theory \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ethe International Handbooks of Museum Studies \u003c\/i\u003exix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Museum Theory: An Expanded Field xxvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Witcomb and Kylie Message\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Thinking about Museums 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Thinking (with) Museums: From Exhibitionary Complex to Governmental Assemblage 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTony Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Foucault and the Museum 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Hetherington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. What, or Where, Is the (Museum) Object?: Colonial Encounters in Displayed Worlds of Things 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSandra H. Dudley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Anarchical Artifacts: Museums as Sites for Radical Otherness 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanice Baker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. (Post‐) Cartographic Urges: The Intersection of Museums and Tourism 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussell Staiff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Museums, Human Rights, and Universalism Reconsidered 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Barrett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Democratic Horizons of the Museum: Citizenship and Culture 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Dahlgren and Joke Hermes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Museums, Ecology, Citizenship 139\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToby Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Disciplines and Politics 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Reflexive Museology: Lost and Found 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelley Ruth Butler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Art of Anthropology: Questioning Contemporary Art in Ethnographic Display 183\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaidy Geismar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Change and Continuity: Art Museums and the Reproduction of Art‐Museumness 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIen Ang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Cool Art on Display: The Saatchi Phenomenon 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim McGuigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Contentious Politics and Museums as Contact Zones 253\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKylie Message\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Emotions in the History Museum 283\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSheila Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Presence of the Past: Imagination and Affect in the Museu do Oriente, Portugal 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElsa Peralta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Toward a Pedagogy of Feeling: Understanding How Museums Create a Space for Cross‐Cultural Encounters 321\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrea Witcomb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. The Liquid Museum: New Institutional Ontologies for a Complex, Uncertain World 345\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFiona Cameron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Theory from Practice\/Practicing Theory 363\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. The Displaced Local: Multiple Agency in the Building of Museums’ Ethnographic Collections 365\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoward Morphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The World as Collected; or, Museum Collections as Situated Materialities 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFredrik Svanberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Ambient Aesthetics: Altered Subjectivities in the New Museum 417\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNatalia Radywyl, Amelia Barikin, Nikos Papastergiadis, and Scott McQuire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Museum Encounters and Narrative Engagements 437\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilipp Schorch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Theorizing Museum and Heritage Visiting 459\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurajane Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The Museum in Hiding: Framing Conflict 485\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmelia Barikin, Lyndell Brown, and Charles Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Preserving\/Shaping\/Creating: Museums and Public Memory in a Time of Loss 511\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames B. Gardner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Sites of Trauma: Contemporary Collecting and Natural Disaster 531\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiza Dale‐Hallett, Rebecca Carland, and Peg Fraser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 553\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANDREA WITCOMB\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and Deputy Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Victoria, Australia. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research, locating her work at the intersection of history, museology, and cultural studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKYLIE MESSAGE\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her research examines the relationships between cultural organizations, citizenship, government, and political reform movements.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMUSEUM THEORY\u003c\/b\u003e EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB \u003csmall\u003eAND\u003c\/small\u003e KYLIE MESSAGE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuseum Theory\u003c\/i\u003e offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized around three themes—Thinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice\/Practicing Theory—the text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.  \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS OF MUSEUM STUDIES General Editors: Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe International Handbooks of Museum Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is a multi-volume reference work that represents a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by leading international museum experts and emerging scholars, readings cover all aspects of museum theory, practice, debates, and the impact of technologies. The four volumes in the series, divided thematically, offer in-depth treatment of all major issues relating to museum theory; historical and contemporary museum practice; mediations in art, design, and architecture; and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum. In addition to invaluable surveys of current scholarship, the entries include a rich and diverse panoply of examples and original case studies to illuminate the various perspectives. Unprecedented for its in-depth topic coverage and breadth of scholarship, the multi-volume \u003ci\u003eInternational Handbooks of Museum Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHARON MACDONALD\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Üniversität zu Berlin, where she also directs the CARMAH, the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHELEN REES LEAHY\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester, where she was Director of the Centre for Museology from 2002–2017. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnline edition available at museumstudieshandbooks.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989665431781,"sku":"NP9781119642084","price":56.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119642084.jpg?v=1761785018","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/museum-theory-isbn-9781119642084","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}