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Re-Presenting Disability 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.
This volume of provocative and timely contributions, brings
together twenty researchers, practitioners and academics from
different disciplinary, institutional and cultural contexts to
explore issues surrounding the cultural representation of disabled
people and, more particularly, the inclusion (as well as the marked
absence) of disability-related narratives in museum and gallery
displays. The diverse perspectives featured in the book offer fresh
ways of interrogating and understanding contemporary
representational practices as well as illuminating existing,
related debates concerning identity politics, social agency and
organisational purposes and responsibilities, which have
considerable currency within museums and museum studies.
Re-Presenting Disability explores such issues as:
- In what ways have disabled people and disability-related topics
historically been represented in the collections and displays of
museums and galleries? How can newly emerging representational
forms and practices be viewed in relation to these historical
approaches?
- How do emerging trends in museum practice designed to counter
prejudiced, stereotypical representations of disabled people relate
to broader developments in disability rights, debates in disability
studies, as well as shifting interpretive practices in public
history and mass media?
- What approaches can be deployed to mine and interrogate
existing collections in order to investigate histories of
disability and disabled people and to identify material evidence
that might be marshalled to play a part in countering prejudice?
What are the implications of these developments for contemporary
collecting?
- How might such purposive displays be created and what dilemmas
and challenges are curators, educators, designers and other actors
in the exhibition-making process, likely to encounter along the
way?
- How do audiences disabled and non-disabled respond to and
engage with interpretive interventions designed to confront,
undercut or reshape dominant regimes of representation that
underpin and inform contemporary attitudes to disability?
Re-Presenting Disability 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.
This volume of provocative and timely contributions, brings
together twenty researchers, practitioners and academics from
different disciplinary, institutional and cultural contexts to
explore issues surrounding the cultural representation of disabled
people and, more particularly, the inclusion (as well as the marked
absence) of disability-related narratives in museum and gallery
displays. The diverse perspectives featured in the book offer fresh
ways of interrogating and understanding contemporary
representational practices as well as illuminating existing,
related debates concerning identity politics, social agency and
organisational purposes and responsibilities, which have
considerable currency within museums and museum studies.
Re-Presenting Disability explores such issues as:
- In what ways have disabled people and disability-related topics
historically been represented in the collections and displays of
museums and galleries? How can newly emerging representational
forms and practices be viewed in relation to these historical
approaches?
- How do emerging trends in museum practice designed to counter
prejudiced, stereotypical representations of disabled people relate
to broader developments in disability rights, debates in disability
studies, as well as shifting interpretive practices in public
history and mass media?
- What approaches can be deployed to mine and interrogate
existing collections in order to investigate histories of
disability and disabled people and to identify material evidence
that might be marshalled to play a part in countering prejudice?
What are the implications of these developments for contemporary
collecting?
- How might such purposive displays be created and what dilemmas
and challenges are curators, educators, designers and other actors
in the exhibition-making process, likely to encounter along the
way?
- How do audiences disabled and non-disabled respond to and
engage with interpretive interventions designed to confront,
undercut or reshape dominant regimes of representation that
underpin and inform contemporary attitudes to disability?
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