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Author:   Janet Marstine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.912kg
ISBN:  

9780415566124

ISBN 10:   0415566126
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   22 June 2011
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

"Part One: Theorizing Museum Ethics 1. The Contingent Nature of the New Museum Ethics 2. The Art of Ethics: Theories and Applications to Museum Practice 3. GoodWork in Museums Today...and Tomorrow 4. Museums and the End of Materialism 5. Changing the Rules of the Road: Post-colonialism and the New Ethics of Museum Anthropology 6. ""Aroha mai: Whose Museum?"" The Rise of Indigenous Ethics within Museum Contexts: A Maori-tribal Perspective 7. The Responsibility of Representation: A Feminist Perspective Part Two: Ethics, Activism and Social Responsibility 8. On Ethics, Activism and Human Rights 9. Collaboration, Contestation and Creative Conflict: On the Efficacy of Museum/Community Partnerships 10. An Experimental Approach to Strengthen the Role of Science Centers in the Governance of Science 11. Peering into the Bedroom: Restorative Justice at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 12. Being Responsive to be Responsible: Museums and Audience Development 13. Ethics and Challenges of Museum Marketing 14. Memorial Museums and the Objectification of Suffering Part Three: The Radical Potential of Museum Transparency 15. Cultural Equity in the Sustainable Museum 16. ‘Dance through the Minefield’: The Development of Practical Ethics for Repatriation 17. Visible Listening—Discussion, Debate and Governance in the Museum 18. Ethical, Entrepreneurial or Inappropriate? Business Practices in Museums 19. ""Why is this here?"": Art Museum Texts as Ethical Guides 20. Transfer Protocols: Museum Codes and Ethics in the New Digital Environment 21. Sharing Conservation Ethics, Practice and Decision-Making with Museum Visitors Part Four: Visual Culture and the Performance of Museum Ethics 22. The Body in the (White) Box: Corporeal Ethics and Museum Representation 23. Towards an Ethics of Museum Architecture 24. Museum Censorship 25. Ethics of Confrontational Drama in Museums 26. Conservation Practice as Enacted Ethics 27. Bioart and Nanoart in a Museum Context: Terms of Engagement"

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'...this volume is courageous and breaks new ground, with the clear purpose of inspiring scholars and practitioners to consider their work more carefully and deeply.'-- Museum Management and Curatorship

Author Information

Janet Marstine is Lecturer and Programme Director of Art Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on museum ethics and institutional critique. Marstine is the founder and former director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University. She is editor of New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2005).

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