Museums, moralities and human rights


Richard Sandell
Bok Engelsk 2017
Utgitt
London : Routledge, , 2017
Omfang
xxi, 181 sider : : illustrasjoner
Opplysninger
Prologue -- Progress and protest -- "I am he that aches with love" -- Coming out stories -- Taking sides -- Museums and the transgender tipping point -- Museum work as human rights work. - This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are negotiated and experienced. Through a series of richly-drawn cases which focus on gender diversity and same-sex love and desire, Richard Sandell examines the ways in which museums are implicated in the ongoing struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex human rights. Museums, Moralities and Human Rights brings together for the first time the perspectives not only of those who work in, govern, fund and visit museums but also those of rights activists and campaigners who, at key moments in their struggle, have turned their attention to museums to advance their cause. Offering new insights into how human rights are continually fought for, realised and refused, this volume makes the case for museums of all kinds to take up an active, mindful and purposive engagement with contemporary human rights concerns.
Emner
Dewey
069
ISBN
9781138231993. - 9781138232013

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