Museums, Moralities and Human Rights

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By Richard Sandell

Series: Museum Meanings

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Museums, Moralities and Human Rights examines how museums, galleries and heritage sites influence the moral and political climate surrounding human rights. Richard Sandell uses detailed case studies focusing on gender diversity and LGBTQ+ rights to explore museums' roles in ongoing struggles for equality. The book highlights perspectives from museum professionals, visitors, activists and campaigners, revealing how museums can actively engage with current human rights issues.
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This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, can shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are experienced.

Through a series of richly-drawn cases, which focus on gender diversity and same-sex love and desire, Richard Sandell examines the ways in which museums are implicated in the ongoing struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex human rights.

Museums, Moralities and Human Rights brings together for the first time the perspectives not only of those who work in, govern, fund and visit museums but also those of rights activists and campaigners who, at key moments in their struggle, have turned their attention to museums to advance their cause.

Offering new insights into how human rights are continually fought for, realised and refused, this volume makes the case for museums of all kinds to take up an active, mindful and purposive engagement with contemporary human rights concerns.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138231993

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 December 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 657g

Pages: 182

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About the Author

Richard Sandell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. His research and practice focuses on museums, equality and social justice. He is Series Editor, with Christina Kreps, of Museum Meanings. His books include Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference (2007), Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum (with Jocelyn Dodd and Rosemarie Garland Thomson) (2010); and Museums, Equality and Social Justice (with Eithne Nightingale) (2012).

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