pt. 1. New ways of seeing -- Activist practice / Richard Sandell and Jocelyn Dodd -- Picturing people with disabilities : classical portraiture as reconstructive narrative / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Agents at Angkor / Lain Hart -- 'See no evil' / Victoria Phiri -- Ghosts in the War Museum / Ana Carden-Coyne -- Behind the shadow of Merrick / David Hevey -- Disability reframed : challenging visitor perceptions in the museum / Jocelyn Dodd [and others] -- pt. 2. Interpretive journeys and experiments -- To label the label? : "learning disability" and exhibiting "critical proximity" / Helen Graham -- Hurting and healing : reflections on representing experiences of mental illness in museums / Joanna Besley and Carol Low -- Histories of disability and medicine : reconciling historical narratives and contemporary values / Julie Anderson and Lisa O'Sullivan -- Revealing moments : representations of disability and sexuality / Elizabeth Mariko Murray and Sarah Jacobs -- The red wheelchair in the white snowdrift / Geraldine Chimirri-Russell -- Face to face : exhibiting and Interpreting facial disfigurement in a museum context / Emma Chambers -- pt. 3. Unsettling practices -- "Out from under" : a brief history of everything / Kathryn Church [and others] -- Transforming practice : disability perspectives and the museum / Shari Rosenstein Werb and Tari Hartman Squire -- Reciprocity, accountability, empowerment : emancipatory principles and practices in the museum / Heather Hollins -- Disability, human rights and the public gaze : the Losheng Story Museum / Chia-Li Chen -- A museum for all? : the Norwegian Museum of Deaf History and Culture / Hanna Mellemsether -- Collective bodies : what museums do for disability studies / Katherine Ott.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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517993
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Title
Re-presenting disability
International Standard Book Number
9780415494717
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Representing disability
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Agent (Philosophy)
Disability studies.
Museum exhibits.
Museum techniques-- Social aspects.
Museum visitors.
Museums-- Social aspects.
People with disabilities-- Civil rights.
People with disabilities-- History.
People with disabilities-- Political activity.
People with disabilities-- Public opinion.
Agent (Philosophy)
Ausstellung
Behinderter Mensch
Behinderung
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Museum Administration & Museology.