ABSTRACT
This is a book about writing about museums. My primary case study is the process of writing, and my subject matter consists of forms of critique. My frameworks for critical engagement are drawn from the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, cultural studies, contemporary art theory, and cognate disciplines including sociology, anthropology, and history. My intention is to explore and make a case for the potential that disciplinary- and interdisciplinary-based modes of critique (and engagements with perceptions of crisis) have in making a political impact, recognizing that such an outcome takes a variety of formal/public, as well as 2informal/‘behind-the-scenes’ approaches. So to be precise, this book is both a political statement (protest) and a process, and it takes as its starting point the premise that these terms are deeply interconnected.
