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Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text
to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond
known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on
studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe,
this book considers how museums with inherited colonial legacies
are dealing with their new environments. The book provides an
examination of Mutare museum's activism in engaging with topical
issues affecting its surrounding community and Chipangura and
Mataga demonstrate how new forms of engagement are being deployed
to attract new audiences, whilst dealing with issues such as
economic livelihoods, poverty, displacement, climate change and
education. Illustrating how recent programmes have helped to
reposition Mutare museum as a decolonial agent of social change and
an important community anchor institution, the book also
demonstrates how other museums can move beyond the colonial
preoccupation with the gathering of collections, conservation and
presentation of cultural heritage to the public. Museums as Agents
for Social Change will primarily be of interest to academics and
students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies,
history, archaeology and anthropology. It should also be appealing
to museum professionals around the world who are interested in
learning more about how to decolonise their museum.
Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and
Post-colonial Zimbabwe focuses on privately-run cultural
institutions and highlights that there has, until now, been scant
scholarly information about their existence and practice. Arguing
that the recent resurgence of such museums, which are not usually
obliged to endorse official narratives of the central government,
points to some desire to decolonise and indigenise museums, the
contributors explore approaches that have been used to reconfigure
such colonially inherited institutions to suit the postcolonial
terrain. The volume also explores how privately-owned museums can
tap into or contribute to current conversations on decoloniality
that encourage reflexivity, inclusivity, de-patriarchy,
multivocality, community participation and agency. Exploring the
motives and purpose of such institutions, the book argues that they
are being utilised to confront deeply entrenched stigmatisation and
marginalisation. This book demonstrates that postcolonial African
museums have become an arena for negotiating history, legacies, and
identities. The book will be of interest to academics and students
around the world who are engaged in the study of museums and
heritage, African studies, history and culture. It will also appeal
to museum practitioners working across Africa and beyond.
Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text
to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond
known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on
studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe,
this book considers how museums with inherited colonial legacies
are dealing with their new environments. The book provides an
examination of Mutare museum's activism in engaging with topical
issues affecting its surrounding community and Chipangura and
Mataga demonstrate how new forms of engagement are being deployed
to attract new audiences, whilst dealing with issues such as
economic livelihoods, poverty, displacement, climate change and
education. Illustrating how recent programmes have helped to
reposition Mutare museum as a decolonial agent of social change and
an important community anchor institution, the book also
demonstrates how other museums can move beyond the colonial
preoccupation with the gathering of collections, conservation and
presentation of cultural heritage to the public. Museums as Agents
for Social Change will primarily be of interest to academics and
students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies,
history, archaeology and anthropology. It should also be appealing
to museum professionals around the world who are interested in
learning more about how to decolonise their museum.
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