The Politics of Museums
Published on 14. September 2015
Book
Hardback
XI, 186 pages
978-1-137-49340-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"A rich bibliography that includes few museum studies resources in favor of scholarly material from the fields of political science, public administration, and public policy supplements a brief, adequate index. This book is from the series 'New Directions in Cultural Policy Research' and will be of interest to museum studies, political science, and public policy libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (J. Decker, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)
More details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
XI, 186 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-49340-8 (9781137493408)
DOI
10.1057/9781137493415
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
Clive Gray is Associate Professor in Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on cultural policy, arts policy and the politics of policy in museums in books and the leading journals in these fields.
Content
1. Museums and Politics: An Introduction 2. The International Politics of Museums 3. The National Politics of Museums 4. The Local Politics of Museums 5. Museums as Political Institutions