interpretive scrapbook on September 11, 200133 24.4 Comment card from September 11: Bearing Witness to History exhibition
34 25.1 Sign, Devon North, Gippsland, February 8, 2009
35 25.2 Poetry Tree, Strathewen, 2010, Museum Victoria
36 25.3 Leadbeater’s possum nest box, Lake Mountain, 2010, Museum Victoria
EDITORS
Andrea Witcomb is a Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and a Deputy Director (Research) of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Her research interests range across the museum and heritage fields and are informed by theoretical, historical, and professional practice concerns. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research, locating her work at the intersection of history, museology, and cultural studies. Her work is driven by a desire to understand the ways in which a range of heritage practices can be used to foster cross?cultural understandings and dialogue as well as the history of collecting as part of colonialism. Her work explores the uses of immersive interpretation strategies in museums and heritage sites, the role of memory and affect in people’s encounters with objects and displays, and, more recently, the place of collecting practices as an embodiment of colonial relations. Andrea is the author of Re-imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Routledge, 2003) and, with Chris Healy, the co-editor of South Pacific Museums: An Experiment in Culture (Monash University ePress, 2006). Her latest book, co?written with Kate Gregory, is From the Barracks to the Burrup: The National Trust in Western Australia (UNSW Press, 2010).
Professor Andrea Witcomb
Deputy Director (Research)
Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Deakin University
Victoria, Australia
Kylie Message is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. Her research examines the relationships between cultural organisations, citizenship, government, and political reform movements. She has written extensively about the ways that museums across the world have been involved in and identified as sites of activism and controversy, and her research has made a significant contribution to the way various participants and stakeholders understand the political history and impact of culture. She is the author of Museums and Social Activism: Engaged Protest (Routledge, 2013); New Museums and the Making of Culture (Bloomsbury, 2006); and most recently, The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge (Routledge, 2018); Museums and Racism (Routledge, 2018); and Archiving Activism: The Occupy Wall Street Collection (Routledge, 2019). She is the Founding Editor of Routledge’s ‘Museums in Focus’ book series.
Professor Kylie Message
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT, Australia
GENERAL EDITORS
Sharon Macdonald is Alexander van Humboldt Professor in Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University Berlin where she directs the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage–CARMAH. The centre works closely with a wide range of museums. Sharon has edited and coedited volumes include the Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell, 2006); Exhibition Experiments (with Paul Basu; Blackwell, 2007); and Theorizing Museums (with Gordon Fyfe; Blackwell, 1996). Her authored books include Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (Berg, 2002); Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond (Routledge, 2009); and Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today (Routledge, 2013). Her current projects include Making Differences: Transforming Museums and Heritage in the 21stCentury.
Professor Sharon Macdonald
Alexander van Humboldt Professor in Social Anthropology
Institute for European Ethnology
Humboldt University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Helen Rees Leahy is Professor Emerita of Museology at the University of Manchester, where, between 2002 and 2017 she directed the Centre for Museology. Previously, Helen held a variety of senior posts in UK museums, including the Design Museum, Eureka! The Museum for Children, and the National Art Collections Fund. She has also worked as an independent consultant and curator, and has organized numerous exhibitions of art and design. She has published widely on practices of individual and institutional collecting, in both historical and contemporary contexts, including issues of patronage, display and interpretation. Her Museum Bodies: The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing was published by Ashgate in 2012.
Professor Emerita Helen Rees Leahy
Centre for Museology
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
CONTRIBUTORS
Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney, Australa
Janice Baker, Curtin University, Australia
Amelia Barikin, University of Queensland, Australia
Jennifer Barrett, University of Sydney, Australia
Tony Bennett, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Lyndell Brown, University of Melbourne, Australia
Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill University, Canada
Fiona Cameron, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Rebecca Carland, Museum Victoria, Australia
Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden
Liza Dale?Hallett, Museum Victoria, Australia
Sandra H. Dudley, University of Leicester, UK
Peg Fraser, Museum Victoria, Australia
James B. Gardner, US National Archives, USA
Haidy Geismar, University College London, UK
Charles Green, University of Melbourne, Australia
Joke Hermes, Inholland University, The Netherlands
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