Cities, Museums and Soft Power (eBook)

Gail Dexter Lord is co-founder and co-president of Lord Cultural Resources. With Barry Lord, she is co-editor of The Manual of Museum Planning (1991, 1999, 2012), and co-author of The Manual of Museum Management (1997 and 2009) and Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes (2010). She is co-author with Kate Markert of The Manual of Strategic Planning for Museums (2007). Gail has led cultural and tourism plans for cities as well as planning, management and exhibition assignments for museums, galleries and cities throughout Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, North America and Asia. In 2014, Gail was appointed Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the minister of culture of France.Ngaire Blankenburg is a principal consultant at Lord Cultural Resources. She has been a youth worker, jazz poet, cartoonist, documentary maker and television producer. She directed the award-winning documentary Morris Fynn Goes Native (SABC), was co-director of Nkosi’s Mission (SABC/BBC) and is co-founder of the Museum of AIDS in Africa. She has advised museum and cultural clients in Washington, DC; Patna, India; Dhahran, Dubai; Beijing, China; and Sydney. Ngaire grew up in Winnipeg, Harare, and Christchurch, and has lived and worked in Johannesburg, Toronto, Paris and Barcelona.

1. Introduction: Why Cities, Museums and Soft Power Gail Dexter Lord & Ngaire Blankenberg2. The Economics of Museums and Cities Javier Jimenez3. Museums in Public Diplomacy Federica Olivares4. London’s Knowledge Quarter: The Soft Power of Museums in the Knowledge Economy and Urban Development Baillie Card5. Museums in the Age of Brazilian Soft Power Gege Leme Joseph6. Museums as Signifiers in the Gulf Hayfa Matar7. When Soft Powers Collide Ngaire Blakenberg8. Unearthing the Genius Loci of Museums in the Indian Subcontinent Batul Raaj Mehta9. Cultural Nomads: Creative People on the Road Robert Punkenhofer10. Cranking Up the Soft Power Engine of Chinese Museums An Laishun, PH.D11. A Tale of Two Civil and Human Rights Cities Gail Dexter Lord and Joy Bailey Bryant12. Cairo and Its Museums: From Multiculturalism to Leadership in Sustainable Development Mohamed Gamal Rashed13. Global and Local: Fairs and Biennials, Temporary Urbanism and Pop-Up Museums Lourdes Fernandez with translation by Marina Ramirez14. The Museum Building Boom Guido Guerzoni15. Thirty-two Ways for Museums to Activate Their Soft Power Ngaire Blakenberg and Gail Dexter Lord