Re-presenting disability
Subtitle: activism and agency in the museum
By: edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
Contributors: Sandell, Richard, 1967-; Dodd, Jocelyn.; Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780415494717; 9780415494731
Subjects: Museums -- Social aspects; Museum techniques -- Social aspects; Museum exhibits; Museum visitors; Disability studies; People with disabilities -- History; People with disabilities -- Public opinion; People with disabilities -- Political activity; Agent (Philosophy); People with disabilities -- Civil rights
Other titles: Representing disability
Description: This title addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. New ways of seeing; title: Activist practice / Richard Sandell and Jocelyn Dodd; title: Picturing people with disabilities : classical portraiture as reconstructive narrative / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; title: Agents at Angkor / Lain Hart; title: See no evil / Victoria Phiri; title: Ghosts in the War Museum / Ana Carden-Coyne; title: Behind the shadow of Merrick / David Hevey; title: Disability reframed : challenging visitor perceptions in the museum / Jocelyn Dodd, Ceri Jones, Debbie Jolly, and Richard Sandell; title: pt. 2. Interpretive journeys and experiments; title: To label the label? : "learning disability" and exhibiting "critical proximity" / Helen Graham; title: Hurting and healing : reflections on representing mental illness in museums / Joanne Besley and Carol Low; title: Histories of disability and medicine : reconciling historical narratives and contemporary values / Julie Anderson and Lisa O'Sullivan; title: Revealing moments : representations of disability and sexuality / Elizabeth Mariko Murray and Sarah Jacobs; title: The red wheelchair in the white snowdrift / Geraldine Chimirri-Russell; title: Face to face : exhibiting and Interpreting facial disfigurement in a museum context / Emma Chambers; title: pt. 3. Unsettling practices; title: "Out from under" : a brief history of everything / Kathryn Church, Melanie Panitch, Catherine Frazee, and Phaedra Livingstone; title: Transforming practice : disability perspectives and the museum / Shari Rosenstein Werb and Tari Hartman Squire; title: Reciprocity, accountability, empowerment : emancipatory principles and practices in the museum / Heather Hollins; title: Disability, human rights, and the public gaze : the Losheng Story Museum / Chia-Li Chen; title: A museum for all? : the Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture / Hanna Mellemsether; title: Collective bodies : what museums do for disability studies / Katherine Ott.