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      Museums, Power, Knowledge book

      Selected Essays

      Museums, Power, Knowledge

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      Museums, Power, Knowledge book

      Selected Essays
      ByTony Bennett
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 7 November 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560380
      Pages 354
      eBook ISBN 9781315560380
      Subjects Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies
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      Bennett, T. (2017). Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560380

      ABSTRACT

      Few perspectives have invigorated the development of critical museum studies over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as Foucault’s account of the relations between knowledge and power and their role in processes of governing. Within this literature, Tony Bennett’s work stands out as having marked a series of strategic engagements with Foucault’s work to offer a critical genealogy of the public museum, offering an account of its nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century development that has been constantly alert to the politics of museums in the present.

      Museums, Power, Knowledge brings together new research with a set of essays initially published in diverse contexts, making available for the first time the full range of Bennett’s critical museology. Ranging across natural history, anthropological art, geological and history museums and their precursors in earlier collecting institutions, and spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries in discussing museum practices in Britain, Australia, the USA, France and Japan, it offers a compelling account of the shifting political logics of museums over the modern period.

      As a collection that aims to bring together the ‘signature’ work of a museum theorist and historian whose work has long occupied a distinctive place in museum/society debates, Museums, Power, Knowledge will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, cultural history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as museum professionals and museum visitors.

       

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |18 pages

      Introduction: museums, power, knowledge

      part |4 pages

      PART I Civic engines

      chapter 1|29 pages

      The exhibitionary complex

      chapter 2|26 pages

      The multiplication of culture’s utility

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Museums, nations, empires, religions

      part |4 pages

      PART II Machineries of modernity

      chapter 4|32 pages

      Museums and progress: narrative, ideology, performance

      chapter 5|23 pages

      Pasts beyond memories: the evolutionary museum, liberal government and the politics of prehistory

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Pedagogic objects, clean eyes, and popular instruction: on sensory regimes and museum didactics

      chapter 7|22 pages

      Exhibition, difference and the logic of culture

      part |4 pages

      PART III Assembling and governing cultures

      chapter 8|18 pages

      The ‘shuffle of things’ and the distribution of agency

      chapter 9|23 pages

      Collecting, instructing, governing: fields, publics, milieus Colonial humanism and greater France: colonial and

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Aesthetics, culture and the ordering of race: Boas and the Boasians

      chapter 11|26 pages

      Re-collecting ourselves: Indigenous time, culture, community and the museum

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