Museum Activism

Dedication
Contents
List of colour plates
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Posterity has arrived: The necessary emergence of museum activism • Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell
Part I: Nurturing activism
	2 Detoxing and decolonising museums • Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott
	3 Growing an activist museum professional • Elizabeth Wood and Sarah A. Cole
	4 Dividing issues and mission-driven activism: Museum responses to migration policies and the refugee crisis • Maria Vlachou
	5 Access as activism: Bringing the museum to the people • Catherine Kudlick and Edward M. Luby
	6 Fossil fuel sponsorship and the contested museum: Agency, accountability and arts activism • Paula Serafini and Chris Garrard
	7 The activist role of museum staff • Victoria Hollows
	8 From the ground up: Grassroots social justice activism in American museums • Laura-Edythe S. Coleman and Porchia Moore
	9 Spectacular defiance • Julie McNamara
	10 ‘I’m gonna do something’: Moving beyond talk in the museum • Bernadette Lynch
	11 Feminism and the politics of friendship in the activist museum • Viv Golding
Part II: Activism in practice
	12 Memory exercises: Activism, symbolic reparation, and non-repetition in Colombia’s National Museum of Memory • Cristina Lleras, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Lina María Díaz and Jennifer Carter
	13 Auto agents: Inclusive curatorship and its political potential • Jade French
	14 Museums as public forums for 21st century societies: A perspective from the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe • Njabulo Chipangura and Happinos Marufu
	15 Museums in the climate emergency • Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth
	16 Activism, objects and dialogues: Re-engaging African collections at the Royal Ontario Museum • Silvia Forni, Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine
	17 Museological activism and cultural citizenship: Collecting the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement • Selina Ho and Vivian Ting
	18 Museums in the age of intolerance • Sharon Heal
	19 Activist practice through networks: A case study in museum connections • Mercy McCann
	20 Whose memories for which future?: Favela museums and the struggle for social justice in Brazil • Marcelo Lages Murta
	21 From vision to action: The journey towards activism at St Fagans National Museum of History • Sioned Hughes and Elen Phillips
	22 Inside out/outside in: Museums and communities activating change • Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale-Hallett, Tatiana Mauri and Kimberley Moulton
	23 Quiet is the new loud?: On activism, museums and changing the world • Åshild Andrea Brekke
	24 Heritage and queer activism • Sean Curran
Part III: Assessing activism
	25 The activist spectrum in United States museums • Dina A. Bailey
	26 Up against it: Contending with power asymmetries in museum work • Kevin Coffee
	27 Taking a position: Challenging the anti-authorial turn in art curating • Lynn Wray
	28 Memory activism and the Holocaust memorial institutions of the 21st century • Diana I. Popescu
	29 Advocacy and activism: A framework for sustainability science in museums • Sandra L. Rodegher and Stacey Vicario Freeman
	30 Narratives of transformation: Stories of impact from activist museums • Jennifer Bergevin
	31 Memorial museums at the intersection of politics, exhibition and trauma: A study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum • Bridget Conley
	32 ‘I attack this work of art deliberately’: Suffragette activism in the museum • Nicola Gauld
	33 Museums, activism and social media (or, how Twitter challenges and changes museum practice) • Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher
	34 Unprecedented times?: Shifting press perceptions on museums and activism • Jenny Kidd
Index