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Book Review: Museums, equality and social justice
journal contribution
posted on 2018-04-20, 13:50 authored by Nuala MorseFirst paragraph: Museums, Equality and Social Justice is a vital addition to the established and
flourishing scholarship exploring the social role of museums and heritage
organisations. It is unique in taking a social justice perspective to explicitly address
questions of ethics, rights, diversity and equality as they apply to all aspects of
museum functions, from curatorship and public programming to management,
leadership and governance. The social justice standpoint is the way that museums,
galleries and heritage organisations ‘acknowledge and act upon inequalities from
within and outside of the cultural domain’ (p.3). Such concerns are explored over 21
chapters with contributions from scholars, practitioners, artists and activists, mainly
from the UK, but also from the USA, Australia, Europe, Taiwan and Yemen. This
balance in perspectives is driven by the editorial team of Richard Sandell, a scholar
whose work on museums and equality has defined the wider field, and Eithne
Nightingale, a practitioner with over 30 years experience in community development
and museums predominantly in the UK. Their joint aim is to provide a critical
resource for informing research, practice and policy and they are most successful in
advancing practice.
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International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2017, 23 (8), pp. 782-784 (3)Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Museum StudiesVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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International Journal of Heritage StudiesPublisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)issn
1352-7258eissn
1470-3610Copyright date
2016Available date
2018-04-20Publisher DOI
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527258.2016.1255911Language
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