Museum Diplomacy: How Cultural Institutions Shape Global Engagement

Author:   Sarah E.K. Smith ,  Sascha Priewe
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
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Pages:   261
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Museum Diplomacy features case studies from across the world that cover almost every aspect of museum work. Demonstrating the potential for institutions to advance cross-cultural education and foster mutual understanding, the book contributes a new understanding of cultural diplomacy that recognizes the work of museum professionals.

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Author:   Sarah E.K. Smith ,  Sascha Priewe
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   American Alliance Of Museums
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781538137208


ISBN 10:   1538137208
Pages:   261
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Global Work of Museum Diplomacy Sarah E.K. Smith & Sascha Priewe Chapter 1: Museums as Diplomatic Sites Sascha Priewe Chapter 2: Exhibitions and Loans as Cosmopolitan Ambassadors Lee Davidson & Leticia Pérez Castellanos Chapter 3: Envoys: Object-Entities and Repatriation in Counter-Hegemonic Museum Diplomacy Anthony Alan Shelton Chapter 4: Museum Diplomacy for Sustainable Development and Human Rights Henry McGhie Chapter 5: Satellite Museums Patricia M. Goff Chapter 6: Terracotta Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities Da Kong Chapter 7: Museums, Diaspora and Migration: Looking for New Paradigms in ‘Times of Crisis’ Simona Bodo and Anna Chiara Cimoli Chapter 8: Inclusion and Refusal in Indigenous Museum Diplomacies: Three Moments Linda Grussani Chapter 9: Cultural Production as a Diplomatic Process: The National Museum of Qatar Karen Exell Chapter 10: Between the US and Asia: Exhibitions and Summits as Cultural Diplomacy Melissa Chiu Chapter 11: Smithsonian Global: Looking Beyond Our Borders Liz Tunick Cedar Chapter 12: Engaging the World Through Museum Collections and Research Chen Shen Chapter 13: Global Museum Networks Sascha Priewe Chapter 14: Training & Exchange Programs: Why People Matter Anaïs Aguerre Chapter 15: Global Citizenship as an Instrument of Museum Diplomacy Simge Erdogan-O’Connor About the Editors About the Contributors Index

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Cultural diplomacy is rapidly becoming a hot topic. As we read of its permutations in this valuable book of essays on the subject, it is a book that will surely influence, even redirect the course of museum practice. -- William Underwood Eiland, former director, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia


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Sarah E.K. Smith is assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations, based in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. Her writing and curatorial projects focus on contemporary art, cultural diplomacy, and creative labor. In 2015 she published the monograph General Idea: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute), which is available in English and French. She is a co-founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative and a member of the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance. In 2015 she held the Canada‐US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Sascha Priewe is Director of Collections and Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Before joining the Aga Khan Museum, he was the Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Curator: Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum. He is a co-founder of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative and author of Museum Diplomacy: Parsing the Global Engagement of Museums. He serves on the boards of ICOM Canada, the Ontario Museum Association, and is the inaugural chairperson of the Global Leadership Council of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora.

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