Routledge companion to museum ethics : redefining ethics for the twenty-first century museum / edited by Janet Marstine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marstine, Janet.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Management--Moral and ethical aspects.

Museums.

Museums--Social aspects.

Social change.

Responsibility.

Museums--Management.

Physical Description:

xxv, 477 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of compliance.

The volume represents diverse strands in museum activity from exhibitions to marketing, as ethics is embedded in all areas of the museum sector. What the contributions share is an understanding of the contingent nature of museum ethics in the twenty-first century-its relations with complex economic, social, political and technological forces and its fluid ever-shifting sensibility.

The volume examines contemporary museum ethics through the prism of those disciplines and methods that have shaped it most. It argues for a museum ethics discourse defined by social responsibility, radical transparency and shared guardianship of heritage. And it demonstrates the moral agency of museums: the concept that museum ethics is more than the personal and professional ethics of individuals and concerns the capacity of institutions to generate self-reflective and activist practice. Book jacket.

Contents:

The contingent nature of the new museum ethics / Janet Marstine

The art of ethics : theories and applications to museum practice / Judith Chelius Stark

GoodWork in museums today- and tomorrow / Celka Straughn and Howard Gardner

Museums and the end of materialism / Robert R. Janes

Changing the rules of the road : post-colonialism and the new ethics of museum anthropology / Christina Kreps

"Aroha mai : whose museum?" : the rise of indigenous ethics within museum contexts : a Maori-tribal perspective / Paul Tapsell

The responsibility of representation : a feminist perspective / Hilde Hein

On ethics, activism and human rights / Richard Sandell

Collaboration, contestation, and creative conflict : on the efficacy of museum/community partnerships / Bernadette T. Lynch

An experimental approach to strengthen the role of science centers in the governance of science / Andrea Bandelli and Elly Konijn

Peering into the bedroom : restorative justice at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum / Lisa Yun Lee

Being responsive to be responsible : museums and audience development / Claudia B. Ocello

Ethics and challenges of museum marketing / Yung-Neng Lin

Memorial museums and the objectification of suffering / Paul Williams

Cultural equity in the sustainable museum / Tristram Besterman

'Dance through the minefield' : the development of practical ethics for repatriation / Michael Pickering

Visible listening : discussion, debate and governance in the museum / James M. Bradburne

Ethical, entrepreneurial or inappropriate? : business practices in museums / James B. Gardner

"Why is this here?" : art museum texts as ethical guides / Pamela Z. McClusky

Transfer protocols : museum codes and ethics in the new digital environment / Ross Parry

Sharing conservation ethics, practice and decision-making with museum visitors / Mary M. Brooks

The body in the (white) box : corporeal ethics and museum representation / Mara Gladstone and Janet Catherine Berlo

Towards an ethics of museum architecture / Suzanne Macleod

Museum censorship / Christopher B. Steiner

Ethics of confrontational drama in museums / Bjarne Sode Funch

Conservation practice as enacted ethics / Dinah Eastop

Bioart and nanoart in a museum context : terms of engagement / Ellen K. Levy.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415566117

0415566118

9780415566124

0415566126

9780203815465

0203815467

OCLC:

500783859

Publisher Number:

99943949941