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Re-presenting disability : activism and agency in the museum / edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Additional Titles
Representing disability
Published
London : Routledge (Publisher), 2010.
Copyright Date
copyright 2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Sandell, Richard, 1967-, Dodd, Jocelyn, and Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie
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Language Note
In English.
Contents
Part 1. New ways of seeing -- Activist practice -- Picturing people with disabilities: classical portraiture as reconstructive narrative -- Agents at Angkor -- 'See no evil' -- Ghosts in the war museum -- Behind the shadow of Merrick -- Disability reframed: challenging visitor perceptions in the museum -- Part 2. Interpretive journeys and experiments -- To label the label? 'Learning disability' and exhibiting 'critical proximity' -- Hurting and healing: reflections on representing experiences of mental illness in museums -- Histories of disability and medicine: reconciling historical narratives and contemporary values -- Revealing moments: representations of disability and sexuality -- The red wheelchair in the white snowdrift -- Face to face: representing facial disfigurement in a museum context -- Part 3. Unsettling practices -- 'Out from Under': a brief history of everything -- Transforming practice: disability perspectives and the museum -- Reciprocity, accountability, empowerment: emancipatory principles and practices in the museum -- Disability, human rights and the public gaze: The Losheng Story Museum -- A museum for all? The Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture -- Collective bodies: what museums do for disability studies.
Summary
Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations. This volume of provocative and timely contributions, brings together twenty researchers, practitioners and academics from different disciplinary, institutional and cultural contexts to explore issues surrounding the cultural representation of disabled people and, more particularly, the inclusion (as well as the marked absence) of disability-related narratives in museum and gallery displays. The diverse perspectives featured in the book offer fresh ways of interrogating and understanding contemporary representational practices as well as illuminating existing, related debates concerning identity politics, social agency and organisational purposes and responsibilities, which have considerable currency within museums and museum studies. Re-Presenting Disability explores such issues as: In what ways have disabled people and disability-related topics historically been represented in the collections and displays of museums and galleries? How can newly emerging representational forms and practices be viewed in relation to these historical approaches? How do emerging trends in museum practice - designed to counter prejudiced, stereotypical representations of disabled people - relate to broader developments in disability rights, debates in disability studies, as well as shifting interpretive practices in public history and mass media? What approaches can be deployed to mine and interrogate existing collections in order to investigate histories of disability and disabled people and to identify material evidence that might be marshalled to play a part in countering prejudice? What are the implications of these developments for contemporary collecting? How might such purposive displays be created and what dilemmas and challenges are curators, educators, designers and other actors in the exhibition-making process, likely to encounter along the way? How do audiences - disabled and non-disabled - respond to and engage with interpretive interventions designed to confront, undercut or reshape dominant regimes of representation that underpin and inform contemporary attitudes to disability?
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ISBN
9780415494717
0415494710
9780415494731
0415494737
Note
Title from resource description page (viewed April 20, 2018).
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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