Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Challenging history in the museum : international perspectives
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Ashgate
Place
Date
2014?
Physical Description
xiv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781409467243
9781409467250
9781409467267
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Introduction : challenging history in the museum / Jenny Kidd
Part 1: The emotional museum / Alex Drago
1. The emotional museum : the case of National Museums Liverpool / David Fleming
2. Telling hard truths and the process of decolonising indigenous representations in Canadian museums / Bryony Onciul
3. Ripples in the pebble pool : dark narrative as maxim, metaphor and memorial / Alix H.J. Powers-Jones
4. Making them laugh, making them cry : theatre's role in challenging history / Judith Bryan
5. The Stiftelsen Arkivet experience : a Second World War Gestapo regional headquarters in Norway / Bj°rn Tore Rosendahl and Ingvild Ruhaven
Part 2: Challenging collaborations / Amy Ryall
6. Challenging ourselves : uncomfortable histories and current museum practices / Bernadette Lynch
7. Contemporary challenges : artist interventions in museums and galleries dealing with challenging histories / Miranda Stearn
8. Coffee and cigarettes : on trust-building processes between the Norwegian government and the Romani Traveller community / Ashild Andrea Brekke
9. Fieldnotes from a challenging history / David Gunn and Victoria Ward
Part 3: Ethics, ownership and identity / Miranda Stearn
10. Vicissitudes of representation : remembering and forgetting / Juliet Steyn
11. Realms of memory and the recovery of the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship (1936-2012) / Mikel Errazkin Agirrezabala and Rosa Marti∞nez Rodri∞guez
12. 'Unseen women, stories from Armagh Gaol' : exhibiting contrasting memories of a contested space / Jolene Mairs Dyer
13. Borders of belonging : the UK Border Agency Museum as a nation-building site / Claire Sutherland
14. Perspectives on the Far East : understanding war through veterans' eyes / Amy Ryall
Part 4: 'Teaching' challenging history / Samantha Cairns
15. Controversies around the teaching of Brazilian 'black history' / Verena Alberti
16. 'To kill a king?' : interpreting the execution of a monarch / Amanda Shamoon
17. Frames of meaning : young people, historical consciousness and challenging history at museums and historic sites / Ceri Jones
18. Challenging histories, challenging memorialisation : the Holocaust / Judith Vandervelde.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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