Museums Difference (74 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. How, if it all, do museums shape the ways in which society understands difference?In recent decades there has been growing international interest amongst practitioners, academics and policy makers in the role that museums might play in confronting prejudice and promoting human rights and cross-cultural understanding. Museums in many parts of the world are increasingly concerned to construct exhibitions which represent, in more equitable ways, the culturally pluralist societies within which they operate, accommodating and engaging with differences on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, disability, sexuality and so on. Despite the ubiquity of these trends, there is nevertheless limited understanding of the social effects, and attendant political consequences, of these purposive representational strategies.Richard Sandell combines interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives with in-depth empirical investigation to address a number of timely questions. How do audiences engage with and respond to exhibitions designed to contest, subvert and reconfigure prejudiced conceptions of social groups? To what extent can museums be understood to shape, not simply reflect, normative understandings of difference, acceptability and tolerance? What are the challenges for museums which attempt to engage audiences in debating morally charged and contested contemporary social issues and how might these be addressed? Sandell argues that museums frame, inform and enable the conversations which audiences and society more broadly have about difference and highlights the moral and political challenges, opportunities and responsibilities which accompany these constitutive qualities.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. How, if it all, do museums shape the ways in which society understands difference?In recent decades there has been growing international interest amongst practitioners, academics and policy makers in the role that museums might play in confronting prejudice and promoting human rights and cross-cultural understanding. Museums in many parts of the world are increasingly concerned to construct exhibitions which represent, in more equitable ways, the culturally pluralist societies within which they operate, accommodating and engaging with differences on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, disability, sexuality and so on. Despite the ubiquity of these trends, there is nevertheless limited understanding of the social effects, and attendant political consequences, of these purposive representational strategies.Richard Sandell combines interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives with in-depth empirical investigation to address a number of timely questions. How do audiences engage with and respond to exhibitions designed to contest, subvert and reconfigure prejudiced conceptions of social groups? To what extent can museums be understood to shape, not simply reflect, normative understandings of difference, acceptability and tolerance? What are the challenges for museums which attempt to engage audiences in debating morally charged and contested contemporary social issues and how might these be addressed? Sandell argues that museums frame, inform and enable the conversations which audiences and society more broadly have about difference and highlights the moral and political challenges, opportunities and responsibilities which accompany these constitutive qualities.…

Condition: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780253219350.

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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2007. Museum studies, anthropological theory. Routledge. Very good - near fine paperback 226p. isbn on back cover is incorrect 9/25.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Museums and Difference. Book.

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Condition: New. How museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics Editor(s): Sherman, Daniel J. Series: 21st Century Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 559. . 2007. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. pp. 386.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. With illustrations, a fine copy. ; 235 x 160mm; xiv, 226 pages.

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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Papers form a conference organized by the Center for 21st Century Studies, held at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Nov. 14-15, 2003. Description: 386 pages : Illustrations : 23 cm.

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Condition: New. How museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics Editor(s): Sherman, Daniel J. Series: 21st Century Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 559. . 2007. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Condition: New. pp. 386.

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