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The Politics of Museums / by Clive Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Clive., Author.
- Series:
- New Directions in Cultural Policy Research, 2730-9258
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture.
- Cultural policy.
- Communication.
- Arts.
- Management.
- Sociology of Culture.
- Cultural Policy and Politics.
- Media and Communication.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociology of Culture.
- Cultural Policy and Politics.
- Media and Communication.
- Arts.
- Management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first book to examine how and why museums are political institutions. By concentrating on the ways in which power, ideology and legitimacy work at the international, national and local levels of the museum experience, Clive Gray provides an original analysis of who exercises power and how power is used in museums.
- Contents:
- Museums and politics: an introduction
- The international politics of museums
- The national politics of museums
- The local politics of museums
- Museums as political institutions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137493415
- 1137493410
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