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Table of Contents
1 Cover
5 EDITORS
9 EDITORS’ PREFACE TO MUSEUM THEORY AND THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS OF MUSEUM STUDIES
10 INTRODUCTION: – MUSEUM THEORY: An Expanded Field
11 PART I: Thinking about Museums 1. THINKING (WITH) MUSEUMS: From Exhibitionary Complex to Governmental Assemblage The perspective of the exhibitionary complex Limitations of the exhibitionary complex Museums as governmental assemblages Conclusion Notes References 2. FOUCAULT AND THE MUSEUM The discourse of the museum Seeing and the power of the museum Museum fragments and the space between saying and seeing Conclusion: Seeing in the space of the already said References 3. WHAT, OR WHERE, IS THE (MUSEUM) OBJECT?: Colonial Encounters in Displayed Worlds of Things Colonial encounters The thing returns the gaze Prosopopoeia: The object’s point of view Notes References 4. ANARCHICAL ARTIFACTS: Museums as Sites for Radical Otherness The times are a-changing Affect, not emotion The museum as screen Beyond the horizon Theory behaving badly References 5. (POST?) CARTOGRAPHIC URGES: The Intersection of Museums and Tourism Introduction: Being in Venice Mobilities and performance Embodiment Materiality and mobility Concluding remarks Note References 6. MUSEUMS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND UNIVERSALISM RECONSIDERED Universal museums Declaration of Universal Museums (2002), human rights, and universalism Human rights and museums New human rights museums The International Slavery Museum Federation of International Human Rights Museums Canadian Museum for Human Rights Museums and human rights discourses in conflict Conclusion: The particular and the universal – the international public sphere Note References Further Reading 7. THE DEMOCRATIC HORIZONS OF THE MUSEUM: Citizenship and Culture Horizons: Democracy, citizenship, participation Museums and civic cultures Museums and cultural citizenship Civic museums Note References 8. MUSEUMS, ECOLOGY, CITIZENSHIP Greener museums? Back at the Design Museum Philosophical dimensions/dementia Political-economic
