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Sharon (Hrsg.) Macdonald

The Politics of Display

Museums, Science, Culture

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The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about 'science' and 'objectivity' are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is a well-known case in poin… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-136-87878-7
  • EAN: 9781136878787
  • Produktnummer: 24371361
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'448 KB

Über den Autor


Sharon Macdonald is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Remaining Culture (1997), editor of Inside Identities (1993) and co-editor of Theorizing Museums (1996) and The Sociological Review.

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