Kevin Coffee

Museums and Social Responsibility (eBook, ePUB)

A Theory of Social Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Museums and Social Responsibility examines inherent contradictions within and effecting museum practice in order to outline a museological theory of how museums are important cultural practices in themselves and how museums shape the socio-cultural dynamics of modern societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000818475
• Artikelnr.: 66017479

Autorenporträt

Kevin Coffee is a museum practitioner and museologist who has worked in the museums sector for more than 35 years, including as head of exhibitions for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and within the National Park Service. During that time, he has advised, managed, and directed scores of projects for a range of museums and cultural organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia, and in that work has engaged culture creators and users in developing new forms of exhibitions, programs, landscapes, and museums. He currently resides in Lowell Massachusetts, United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Particularities and generalities
Chapter 2 The Agency of Ideology
Chapter 3 Museum knowing and learning
Chapter 4 Inclusion and Exclusion
Chapter 5 Praxis is Action
Chapter 6 How should we act?
References.