Collections Management As Critical Museum Practice

Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice brings into focus the knowledges, value systems, ethics and workplace pragmatics that are the foundation of collections management. The book creates a critical dialogue about the underlying philosophies, values and ethics that determine what are and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Krmpotich, Cara (-)
Otros Autores: Stevenson, Alice
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009841240006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Collections Management is/as Critical Practice
  • Part I: Making and Unmaking Museum Collections
  • 1 Documenting COVID-19: Sensitivity, Care, Collaboration
  • 2 A Failure of Care: Unsettling Traditional Archival Practices
  • 3 Deciding Whether and How to Build a Digital Archive: Lessons from the Jackson Park Project
  • 4 Collecting the Sacred: The Transition of Diasporic Objects in Between Museum Regimes
  • 5 Bane and Boon: Critical Contexts of Object Marking
  • 6 Humanising Collections Disposal
  • Part I Response: In a Multiverse of Timelines and Possibilities...
  • Part II: A Universal Approach? Accessing, Handling and Enlivening Collections
  • 7 Challenging Ableism: Including Non-Normative Bodies and Practices in Collections Care
  • 8 Playing the Odds: The Fine Line Between Keeping an Object Safe and Making it Accessible
  • 9 Managing a Working Collection: The Historic Furniture and Decorative Arts Collection at the Palace of Westminster
  • 10 Gloves in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Pandemic
  • 11 A Healthy Ageing Approach to Collections Care
  • Part II Response: Claim What Is Stored Here
  • Part III: Community Brilliance in Shaping Collections Management
  • 12 On Language, Access and Practitioners: Beginning a Conversation on Decolonising and Indigenising the Care of Kapa Collections at Bishop Museum
  • 13 Shifting Organisational Culture Through Repatriation Policy
  • 14 Kaitiakitanga: Māori Collection Management in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • 15 Reconciling with Ourselves: How Do We Decolonise Collections Management Practices in Museum Spaces and Systems?
  • 16 Handling Collections in the Museum Against Cultural Ethics
  • 17 Decolonising Collection Management in an Indigenous Ritual House in Malaysia
  • Part III Response: ‘Collections Should Reflect the Relationships We Hold’