Museums and the Working Class

Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies.

Autorentext

Adele Chynoweth has earned her living as a shop assistant, cabaret performer, night club DJ, call centre operator, union organiser, public servant, and teacher in secondary schools and adult vocational education. Adele also studied theatre direction at the Flinders University Drama Centre and completed her PhD with scholarship support. Adele was a Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University where she received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Public Policy and Outreach in 2018. In 2020, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Klappentext

Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies.

Inhalt

Introduction - 'Which Side Are You On'? Towards Meaningful Attention to Class in Museums
Adele Chynoweth

Part I - Shut Out: Access and the Working Class

1. 'A Permanent Civilising Effect'? The Impact of Reforming Working-Class Museum Visitors in Liverpool during the Nineteenth Century
   Alexander Scott

2. How British Museums Have Failed the Working Class
   David Fleming

3. Seat of the Muses or the Moolah? New Working Class Demands on Elitist Archival Practices
   Silvio Tamaso D'Onofrio

Part II - Shut Up: the Struggle to End the Silence

4. 'One and All'? Retrieving South Australia's Forgotten Labor History
   Philip Payton

5. 'Go and Take a Look at Millie Now': Murder, Tattooed Remains, and Museum Ethics in Quebec
   Jamie Jelinksi

6. Museums in Late Populist Democracies: the Photographic Archive and the Working Class
   Paolo Magagnoli

7. Women´s Work in Coastal Galicia: Shining a Light on the Unseen at the Marea Museum
   José Manuel Vázquez Lijó

Part III - Know Your Place: Site-Specific Narratives

8. Erasure of Working-Class Heritage in Conservation Plans: Absent Presence in the Walled City of Lahore
   Rabia Nadir

9. Eugene V. Debs' Museum and the Preservation of Radical Working-Class Political Memory
   Wesley R. Bishop

10. Keeping Your Head Down at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum
    Adele Chynoweth

11. From Factory to Museum: The Obliteration of the History of Resistance
    Meral Akba and Özge Kelekçi

Part IV- Answering Back: Lessons from the Working and Poverty Classes

12. Looking Backwards, Planning Forward: 'Museum as Muck' Advocating for the Working Class in Museums
    Michelle McGrath, in conversation with Adele Chynoweth

13. Changing Lives at the Scottish Maritime Museum
    Martin Hughes

14. House of Memories: Care and Equality in the UK Museum Sector
    Kerry Wilson

15. Ngintaka Songline Tracks in the Museum
    Diana James