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Critical Realist Philosophy and the Possibility of an Eco-decolonial Museology

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2021
New forms of museum practice that explore the dynamics of social and ecological processes as interlinked systems are increasingly urgent. Critical realist philosophy is used to consider the emergence of tensions between museological processes of ...
Thomas Carnegie Jeffery
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Toward a Critical Children’s Museology: The Anything Goes Exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2021
For decades, Museum Studies scholars have called for a new ‘critical museology’ with greater inclusion of marginalized communities and diversification of exhibition content, but children have been largely ignored in these efforts. This paper explores the
Monica Eileen Patterson
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Tracing Taonga Trajectories: A Methodological Framework for Indigenous Heritage Mapping. [PDF]

open access: yesJ R Soc N Z
Rangitāhua is a tupuna to Ngāti Kuri and represents the iwi's geographic and ancestral connection to the Pacific. Despite this millennium‐long ancestral tie, Ngāti Kuri's access to Rangitāhua has been severed for two centuries. Meanwhile, many European expeditions visited the islands, extracting and distributing natural history taonga across ...
Ferrari de Aquino Klemm M   +4 more
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Critical Museology: A Critique (Kritika kritické muzeologie) [PDF]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2016
Recently, museological scholarly literature has seen a lot critiques of current museum practice and even attempts at a coherent theory of critical museology or critical heritage studies.
Jan Dolák
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Mozambique's Colonial-Era Non-Human Primate Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon: Taxonomy, Provenance, and Historical Context. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives This study reviews Mozambique's non‐human primate collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon. The collection originates from the Zoological Missions of Mozambique (1948 and 1955) carried out under Portuguese colonial administration. The objectives of this work were to: i.
Osório M, Veracini C.
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Towards an Eco-decolonial Museology: A critical realist analysis of the crises of South African museums

open access: yesSouthern African Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
South African museums face multivalent, simultaneous crises. The MELD dialectical framework of critical realist philosophy can be used to explore potential for a deep reimagining of museum theory and practice that may generate a new, relational mode ...
Tom Jeffery
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A Twenty-Year Retrospect on ‘The Mirage of Islamic Art’: Polarising Islamic art, consolidating Persian art [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2023
This introductory essay overviews the state of scholarship and controversies in the field of Islamic art, in tandem with the gradual reappraisal of Persian art, from around 2000 to the present. By surveying twenty-year debates concerning the academic and
Yuka Kadoi
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Muséologie critique : un manifeste

open access: yesCulture & Musées, 2022
Synthesizing work carried out by the author over the past 25 years, this article proposes a tentative disciplinary definition of critical museology, distinguishing its related methodological interdictions and describing its distinctiveness from what is ...
Anthony Shelton
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