Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements (Routledge Research in Museum Studies, 3, Band 3) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138802263 ISBN 13: 9781138802261

Verlag: Routledge, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This book reflects on the complexity and difficulty of museums' experiences in presenting and interpreting the histories of slavery and abolition. It draws together contributions from academics, museum professionals, community activists and artists who were involved in marking the bicentenary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade.

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Laurajane Smith is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University, Canberra. She is author of Uses of Heritage (2006) and Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage (2004), co-author of Heritage, Communities and Archaeology (2009) and co-editor of Intangible Heritage (2009). She is editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Geoff Cubitt is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department and in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. He is the author of the books, The Jesuit Myth (1993) and History and Memory (2007), and editor of two others, Imagining Nations (1998) and Heroic Reputations and Exemplary Lives (2000).

Kalliopi Fouseki is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the 1807 Commemorated project in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York.

Ross Wilson is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the 1807 Commemorated project in the Department of History at the University of York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138802263
• ISBN 13: 9781138802261
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Smith Laurajane
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland