Ethics of Contemporary Collecting

Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflecting on how practices are evolving or in flux.

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Jen Kavanagh is a freelance curator and oral historian based in London, UK.

Ellie Miles is a curator and researcher based in London, UK.

Rosamund Lily West is a lecturer in architectural studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

Susanna Cordner is a senior research fellow at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

Klappentext

Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflecting on how practices are evolving or in flux.

Inhalt

Introduction; About the Editors; List of Images and Tables; Section I: Collecting a moment: 1.0 Collecting a Moment: Introduction; 1.1 Making the Future: Contemporary Collecting at National Museums Northern Ireland; 1.2 How Did We Get Here? A Reflection on Collaborative Research in Action; 1.3 Decapitated Monuments to Colonial Administrators of India at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai; 1.4 Antisemitism and Racism: Collections in Transformation; 1.5 Challenges, Risks and Rewards: Contemporary Conflict Collecting at Imperial War Museums; 1.6 The Ethics of Response-ability in Collecting Spontaneous Memorials; 1.7 Mass Observing COVID-19; Section II: Responsible futures: 2.0 Responsible Futures: Introduction; 2.1 Climate Action and Ethics at the Horniman; 2.2 Problem Plastics at the People's History Museum; 2.3 Minting New Collection Challenges: A Reflective Analysis of the Ethical Dilemmas Around Collecting NFTs; 2.4 New and Emerging Ethical Considerations for Digital Collecting in Museums; 2.5 Collecting as Emergency Response in the Earth Crisis; 2.6 Experience of Non-custodial Collecting through the Contemporary Ecomuseum Model: A Case Study of Taoyuan City Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum in Taiwan; Section III: Centring communities: 3.0 Centring Communities: Introduction; 3.1 Echoes of Holloway Prison: Collecting Complex Stories; 3.2 Punk Polyvagal in a Polycrisis: Remaking Museums in a Time of Social and Ecological Collapse; 3.3 Collecting Victorian COVID-19 Experiences: Mine, Yours or Ours?; 3.4 What to Take and What to Leave Behind: Contemporary Ethical Collecting for a Museum in Oxford; 3.5 The Power of Patient Perspectives: Exploring Participatory Collecting with Patient Groups in a Medical Museum; 3.6 Critical Reflection on 'Telling Stories: Experiences of Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic; 3.7 Centring the Donor at the Royal College of Nursing; 3.8 Ethics and Problems of Museumization in the Current Montane Environment Using Examples from the Slovak Republic; Conclusion; Activations and Further Reading; Biographies of the Authors; Index.