![]() Theorizing Museums: Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World
ISBN: 978-0-631-20151-9
Paperback
248 pages
July 1998, Wiley-Blackwell
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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).

