Museum Activism

Robert R. Janes is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Museum Management and Curatorship, and the founder of the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. He has devoted his career to championing museums as important social institutions that can make a difference in the lives of individuals and their communities. Richard Sandell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. His research and practice is concerned with the social roles and responsibilities of museums, galleries and heritage sites and, in particular, their capacity to shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are experienced.

List of Colour Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Posterity Has Arrived: The Necessary Emergence of Museum Activism Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell; Part 1 Nurturing Activism; 2 Detoxing and Decolonising Museums Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott; 3 Growing an Activist Museum Professional Elizabeth Wood and Sarah A. Cole; 4 Dividing Issues and Mission-driven Activism: Museum Responses to Migration Policies and the Refugee Crisis Maria Vlachou; 5 Access as Activism: Bringing the Museum to the People Catherine Kudlick and Edward M. Luby; 6 Fossil Fuel Sponsorship and the Contested Museum: Agency, Accountability and Arts Activism Paula Serafini and Chris Garrard; 7 The Activist Role of Museum Staff Victoria Hollows; 8 From the Ground Up: Grassroots Social Justice Activism in American Museums Laura-Edythe S. Coleman and Porchia Moore; 9 Spectacular Defiance Julie McNamara; 10 ‘I’m Gonna Do Something’: Moving Beyond Talk in The Museum Bernadette Lynch; 11 Feminism and the Politics of Friendship in the Activist Museum Viv Golding; Part 2 Activism in Practice; 12 Memory Exercises: Activism, Symbolic Reparation, and Non-repetition in Colombia’s National Museum of Memory Cristina Lleras, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Lina María Díaz and Jennifer Carter; 13 Auto Agents: Inclusive Curatorship and its Political Potential Jade French; 14 Museums as Public Forums for 21st Century Societies: a Perspective from the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe Njabulo Chipangura and Happinos Marufu; 15 Museums in the Climate Emergency Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth; 16 Activism, Objects and Dialogues: Re-engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum Silvia Forni, Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine; 17 Museological Activism and Cultural Citizenship: Collecting the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Selina Ho and Vivian Ting; 18 Museums in the Age of Intolerance Sharon Heal; 19 Activist Practice Through Networks: A Case Study in Museum Connections Mercy McCann; 20 Whose Memories for Which Future? Favela Museums and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil Marcelo Lages Murta; 21 From Vision to Action: The Journey Towards Activism at St Fagans National Museum of History Sioned Hughes and Elen Phillips; 22 Inside out/outside in: Museums and communities activating change Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale-Hallett, Tatiana Mauri and Kimberley Moulton; 23 Quiet is the New Loud? : On Activism, Museums and Changing the World Åshild Andrea Brekke; 24 Heritage and Queer Activism Sean Curran; Part 3 Assessing Activism; 25 The Activist Spectrum in United States Museums Dina A. Bailey; 26 Up Against It: Contending with Power Asymmetries in Museum Work Kevin Coffee; 27 Taking a Position: Challenging the Anti-authorial Turn in Art Curating Lynn Wray; 28 Memory Activism and the Holocaust Memorial Institutions of the 21st century Diana I. Popescu; 29 Advocacy and Activism: A Framework for Sustainability Science in Museums Sandra L. Rodegher and Stacey Vicario Freeman; 30 Narratives of Transformation: Stories of Impact from Activist Museums Jennifer Bergevin; 31 Memorial Museums at the Intersection of Politics, Exhibition and Trauma: A study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum Bridget Conley; 32 ‘I Attack this Work of Art Deliberately’: Suffragette Activism in the Museum Nicola Gauld; 33 Museums, Activism and Social Media (or, how Twitter challenges and changes museum practice) Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher; 34 Unprecedented Times? Shifting Press Perceptions on Museums and Activism Jenny Kidd; Index