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Author:   Robert R. Janes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781138906372

ISBN 10:   1138906379
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   08 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1 Other Voices: Indigenous Peoples Introduction 1 Northern Museum Development: A View from the North 2 Museum Ideology and Practice in Canada's Third World 3 First Nations: Policy and Practice at the Glenbow Museum 4 Personal, Academic and Institutional Perspectives on Museums and First Nations 5 Issues of Repatriation: A Canadian View (With Gerald T. Conaty) Part 2 Creative Destruction: Managing Change Introduction 6 Sober Reflections: An Undisguised View of Change at Glenbow 7 Beyond Strategic Planning - The Glenbow Example 8 Don’t Lose Your Nerve: Museums and Organizational Change 9 Museums and Change: Some Thoughts on Creativity, Destruction and Self- Organization 10 Complexity and Creativity in Contemporary Museum Management (With Richard Sandell) 11 The Mindful Museum 12 Museum Management Revisited Part 3 Museums without Borders: Social Responsibility Introduction 13 What Will Communities Need and Want from Museums in the Future? 14 Exploring Stewardship 15 Introduction to Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility (With Gerald T. Conaty) 16 Museums, Corporatism and the Civil Society 17 Museums: Stewards or Spectators? 18 What Are Museums For? – Revisiting Museums in a Troubled World (With Morten Karnøe Søndergaard) Part 4 Dangerous Times: Activism and Ethics Introduction 19 Experimenting with Leadership: Primus inter Pares 20 Persistent Paradoxes – 1997 and 2012 21 Debunking the Marketplace 22 Museums and the New Reality 23 Museum Management and the Ethical Imperative 24 Museums in a Dangerous Time Epilogue Bibliography of Robert R. Janes

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Robert R. Janes is an independent scholar and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship from 2003 to 2014. He has worked in and around museums for 39 years as an executive, consultant, editor, author, board member, archaeologist, instructor, volunteer, and philanthropist. Janes has devoted his career to championing museums as important social institutions that are capable of making a difference in the lives of individuals and their communities. He began his career as an archaeologist in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories and continues to work with Canada’s indigenous peoples. He was given a traditional Blackfoot name in 1995. In addition to his museum work, Janes is the co-owner of a permaculture farm and orchard in British Columbia (Canada).

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