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Re-presenting disability : activism and agency in the museum / edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Social aspects.
- Museums.
- Museum techniques--Social aspects.
- Museum techniques.
- Museum exhibits.
- Museum visitors.
- Disability studies.
- People with disabilities--History.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Public opinion.
- People with disabilities--Political activity.
- Agent (Philosophy).
- People with disabilities--Civil rights.
- Political participation.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Representing disability
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. New ways of seeing
- Activist practice / Richard Sandell and Jocelyn Dodd
- Picturing people with disabilities : classical portraiture as reconstructive narrative / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- Agents at Angkor / Lain Hart
- 'See no evil' / Victoria Phiri
- Ghosts in the War Museum / Ana Carden-Coyne
- Behind the shadow of Merrick / David Hevey
- Disability reframed : challenging visitor perceptions in the museum / Jocelyn Dodd ... [et al.]
- pt. 2. Interpretive journeys and experiments
- To label the label? : "learning disability" and exhibiting "critical proximity" / Helen Graham
- Hurting and healing : reflections on representing experiences of mental illness in museums / Joanna Besley and Carol Low
- Histories of disability and medicine : reconciling historical narratives and contemporary values / Julie Anderson and Lisa O'Sullivan
- Revealing moments : representations of disability and sexuality / Elizabeth Mariko Murray and Sarah Jacobs
- The red wheelchair in the white snowdrift / Geraldine Chimirri-Russell
- Face to face : exhibiting and Interpreting facial disfigurement in a museum context / Emma Chambers
- pt. 3. Unsettling practices
- "Out from under" : a brief history of everything / Kathryn Church ... [et al.]
- Transforming practice : disability perspectives and the museum / Shari Rosenstein Werb and Tari Hartman Squire
- Reciprocity, accountability, empowerment : emancipatory principles and practices in the museum / Heather Hollins
- Disability, human rights and the public gaze : the Losheng Story Museum / Chia-Li Chen
- A museum for all? : the Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture / Hanna Mellemsether
- Collective bodies : what museums do for disability studies / Katherine Ott.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415494717
- 0415494710
- 9780415494731
- 0415494737
- OCLC:
- 308216377
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