Museums without borders : selected writings of Robert R. Janes / Robert R. Janes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janes, Robert R., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Museums--Political aspects.

Museums--Moral and ethical aspects.

Museums--Canada.

Indians of North America--Museums.

Indians of North America.

Social change.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xvii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"Museums without Borders presents a body of work from one of the most respected practitioners and scholars in the field with nearly 40 years of experience. Robert Janes explores, through his selected writings, the view that museums have a broader role to play in society than is conventionally assumed. This volume forms an evolutionary time capsule of the many issues that have, and will, continue to shape the museum sector for decades to come"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Richard Sandell

Part 1. Other voices : indigenous peoples

Northern museum development : a view from the North

Museum ideology and practice in Canada's Third World

First Nations : policy and practice at the Glenbow Museum

Personal, academic and institutional perspectives on museums and First Nations

Issues of repatriation : a Canadian view (with Gerald T. Conaty)

Part 2. Creative destruction : managing change

Sober reflections : an undisguised view of change at Glenbow

Beyond strategic planning : the Glenbow example

Don't lose your nerve : museums and organizational change

Museums and change : some thoughts on creativity, destruction and self-organization

Complexity and creativity in contemporary museum management (with Richard Sandell)

The mindful museum

Museum management revisited

Part 3. Museums without borders : social responsibility

What will communities need and want from museums in the future?

Exploring stewardship

Introduction to looking reality in the eye : museums and social responsibility (with Gerald T. Conaty)

Museums, corporatism and the civil society

Museums : stewards or spectators?

What are museums for? : revisiting museums in a troubled world (with Morten Karnøe Søndergaard)

Part 4. Dangerous times : activism and ethics

Experimenting with leadership : primus inter pares

Persistent paradoxes : 1997 and 2012

Debunking the marketplace

Museums and the new reality

Museum management and the ethical imperative

Museums in a dangerous time

Epilogue

Bibliography of Robert R. Janes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138906365

1138906360

9781138906372

1138906379

OCLC:

922697759

Publisher Number:

40025793214