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This book explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Examining collection development as a means to investigate the sociology of protest and reform movements, it questions what contribution a study and collection of the material culture of dissent might offer to a range of disciplines.

Focused on the broad field of multicultural policy, Museums and Racism examines how the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia, has responded to political culture and public debate around racism. The opening of The National Museum of Australia in Canberra is also examined in some detail, as a comparison providing broader national social and political context. Message argues that the case studies examined demonstrate the close relationship ...

Drawing on a range of cultural, theoretical, and political approaches, Message examines potential links between methods of critique today and moments of historical and disciplinary crisis, and asks what contribution museums might make to these.

Focused on the broad field of multicultural policy, Museums and Racism examines how the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia, has responded to political culture and public debate around racism. The opening of The National Museum of Australia in Canberra is also examined in some detail, as a comparison providing broader national social and political context. Message argues that the case studies examined demonstrate the close relationship ...

Drawing on a range of cultural, theoretical, and political approaches, Message examines potential links between methods of critique today and moments of historical and disciplinary crisis, and asks what contribution museums might make to these.

This book explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Examining collection development as a means to investigate the sociology of protest and reform movements, it questions what contribution a study and collection of the material culture of dissent might offer to a range of disciplines.

In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives.

Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown story about museological transformation and curatorial activism that occurred in the Division of Political and Reform History at the National Mus...

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