The disobedient museum : writing at the edge
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eng
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115
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978-1-138-24011-7
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Writing at the edge
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Abstract
The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge aims to motivate disciplinary thinking to reimagine writing about museums as an activity where resistant forms of thinking, seeing, feeling, and acting can be produced, and to theorize this process as a form of protest against disciplinary stagnation.
Drawing on a range of cultural, theoretical, and political approaches, Kylie Message examines potential links between methods of critique today and moments of historical and disciplinary crisis, and asks what contribution museums might make to these, either as direct actors or through activities that sit more comfortably within their institutional remit. Identifying the process of writing about museums as a form of activism, that brings together and elaborates on cultural and political agendas for change, the book explores how a process of engaged critique might benefit museum studies, what this critique might look like, and how museum studies might make a contribution to discourses of social and political change.
Table of contents
Introduction: ‘This is not a protest. This is a process’
1. Political Protest
2. Disciplinary Crisis
3. Writing Resistance
Conclusion: ‘Movements are born in the moments when abstract principles become concrete concerns’