The Social Museum In The Caribbean

Author : Csilla E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9088905940

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The Social Museum in the Caribbean by Csilla E. Ariese-Vandemeulebroucke Pdf

A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts of their missions. These profoundly social museums adopt participatory practices and embark on community engagement processes in order to embed themselves firmly in contemporary Caribbean societies.0This dissertation presents a mosaic of 195 Caribbean museums and the results of a unique research project based on a mixed methods approach. It begins with a macro view of Caribbean museums and their participatory practices. This part of the study consisted of a regional museum survey in which the museum visit was approached as an event, leading to the creation of an extensive database of Caribbean museums and their participatory practices. The dissertation continues by zooming in to a micro level to explore the dynamics of community engagement processes in two case studies. The Kalinago Barana Autê in Dominica shows the ongoing process of an indigenous grassroots initiative that became a governmentally owned but locally managed museum. The Bengal to Barbados exhibition in Barbados reveals the complex dynamics of the beginnings of a co-curation project between a heterogeneous migrant community and a national museum.

Author : Karen Brown,Alissandra Cummins,Ana S. González Rueda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000954227

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Communities and Museums in the 21st Century by Karen Brown,Alissandra Cummins,Ana S. González Rueda Pdf

Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability. Set within the context of globalisation and decolonisation, this book draws upon bi-regional research that will enrich our understanding of the complex relationships between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean through museum studies and practice. Chapters reflect upon the role of museums in defining community identities; the importance of young people’s participation and intergenerational work for sustainability; the role of museums in local development; and community-based museums and climate change. Contributors examine these issues through the lens of museum partnerships and practices, as well as testing the continued relevance of the notion of ‘integral museum’ and its relatives in the form of ecomuseums. With its focus on regional museums in Latin America and Caribbean, this book highlights how the case studies promote greater intercultural dialogue, global understanding and social cohesion. It also demonstrates how the methodology can be adapted to other communities who are facing the perils of climate change and unsustainable forms of development. Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, this book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development.

Author : Csilla Esther Ariese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Community museums
ISBN : 9088905932

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The Social Museum in the Caribbean by Csilla Esther Ariese Pdf

A collection of 195 museums in the Caribbean showcases the unique practices and processes used to engage with contemporary communities.

Author : Njabulo Chipangura,Jesmael Mataga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000399264

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Museums as Agents for Social Change by Njabulo Chipangura,Jesmael Mataga Pdf

Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe, this book considers how museums with inherited colonial legacies are dealing with their new environments. The book provides an examination of Mutare museum’s activism in engaging with topical issues affecting its surrounding community and Chipangura and Mataga demonstrate how new forms of engagement are being deployed to attract new audiences, whilst dealing with issues such as economic livelihoods, poverty, displacement, climate change and education. Illustrating how recent programmes have helped to reposition Mutare museum as a decolonial agent of social change and an important community anchor institution, the book also demonstrates how other museums can move beyond the colonial preoccupation with the gathering of collections, conservation and presentation of cultural heritage to the public. Museums as Agents for Social Change will primarily be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, history, archaeology and anthropology. It should also be appealing to museum professionals around the world who are interested in learning more about how to decolonise their museum.

Author : Bridget Brereton
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0435983059

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Social Life in the Caribbean, 1838-1938 by Bridget Brereton Pdf

Provides a clear and readable account ofa formative period in the history of the region. The text is divided into two halves: the first half looks at the structure of society and covers issues of race, class and wealth, while the second half looks at four particular aspects of community life - religion, the family, education and festivals...

Author : Deborah Cullen,Elvis Fuentes,Elvis Fuentes Rodríguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300178549

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Caribbean by Deborah Cullen,Elvis Fuentes,Elvis Fuentes Rodríguez Pdf

Unprecedented in scope, this book examines the modern history of the Caribbean through its artistic culture. Acknowledging the individuality of various islands, the richness of the coastal regions, and the reach of the Diaspora, Caribbean looks at the vital visual and cultural links that exist among these diverse constituencies. The authors examine how the Caribbean has been imagined and pictures, and the role of art in the development of national identity.

Author : Alissandra Cummins,Kevin Farmer,Roslyn Russell
Publisher : Common Ground Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1612290736

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Plantation to Nation by Alissandra Cummins,Kevin Farmer,Roslyn Russell Pdf

Author : Jolynna Sinanan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787350953

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Social Media in Trinidad by Jolynna Sinanan Pdf

Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwellers look down on and villagers look up to. The complex identity of the town is expressed through uses of social media, with significant results for understanding social media more generally. Not elevating oneself above others is one of the core values of the town, and social media becomes a tool for social visibility; that is, the process of how social norms come to be and how they are negotiated. Carnival logic and high-impact visuality is pervasive in uses of social media, even if Carnival is not embraced by all Trinidadians in the town and results in presenting oneself and association with different groups in varying ways. The study also has surprising results in how residents are explicitly non-activist and align themselves with everyday values of maintaining good relationships in a small town, rather than espousing more worldly or cosmopolitan values.

Author : Ana Sánchez Laws
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782388692

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Museum Websites and Social Media by Ana Sánchez Laws Pdf

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities that can serve as a starting point for cross-disciplinary discussion. It is a resource for museum staff, students, designers, and researchers working at the intersection of cultural institutions and digital technologies. The aim is to provide insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.

Author : Lois H. Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135190484

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The Social Work of Museums by Lois H. Silverman Pdf

Museums may not seem at first glance to be engaged in social work. Yet, Lois H. Silverman brings together here relevant visitor studies, trends in international practice, and compelling examples that demonstrate how museums everywhere are using their unique resources to benefit human relationships and, ultimately, to repair the world. In this groundbreaking book, Silverman forges a framework of key social work perspectives to show how museums are evolving a needs-based approach to provide what promises to be universal social service. In partnership with social workers, social agencies, and clients, museums are helping people cope and even thrive in circumstances ranging from personal challenges to social injustices. The Social Work of Museums provides the first integrative survey of this emerging interdisciplinary practice and an essential foundation on which to build for the future. The Social Work of Museums is not only a vital and visionary resource for museum training and practice in the 21st century, but also an invaluable tool for social workers, creative arts therapists, and students seeking to broaden their horizons. It will inspire and empower policymakers, directors, clinicians, and evaluators alike to work together toward museums for the next age.

Author : Richard Sandell,Eithne Nightingale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136318702

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Museums, Equality and Social Justice by Richard Sandell,Eithne Nightingale Pdf

The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum resources, and opening up opportunities for participation, now enjoy considerable consensus in many parts of the world. A growing number of institutions are concerned to construct new narratives that represent a plurality of lived experiences, histories and identities which aim to nurture support for more progressive, ethically-informed ways of seeing and to actively inform contemporary public debates on often contested rights-related issues. At the same time it would be misleading to suggest an even and uncontested transition from the museum as an organisation that has been widely understood to marginalise, exclude and oppress to one which is wholly inclusive. Moreover, there are signs that momentum towards making museums more inclusive and equitable is slowing down or, in some contexts, reversing. Museums, Equality and Social Justice aims to reflect on and, crucially, to inform debates in museum research, policy and practice at this critical time. It brings together new research from academics and practitioners and insights from artists, activists, and commentators to explore the ways in which museums, galleries and heritage organisations are engaging with the fast-changing equalities terrain and the shifting politics of identity at global, national and local levels and to investigate their potential to contribute to more equitable, fair and just societies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Social service
ISBN : 9780195306613

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Encyclopedia of Social Work by Anonim Pdf

Author : Basil A. Reid
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817355340

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Myths and Realities of Caribbean History by Basil A. Reid Pdf

This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact periods. It informs popular audiences, as well as scholars, about the current state of archaeological/historical research in the Caribbean Basin and asserts the value of that research in fostering a better understanding of the region’s past. Contrary to popular belief, the history of the Caribbean did not begin with the arrival of Europeans in 1492. It actually started 7,000 years ago with the infusion of Archaic groups from South America and the successive migrations of other peoples from Central America for about 2,000 years thereafter. In addition to discussing this rich cultural diversity of the Antillean past, Myths and Realities of Caribbean History debates the misuse of terms such as “Arawak” and “Ciboneys,” and the validity of Carib cannibalism allegations.

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605254

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The Caribbean Before Columbus by William F. Keegan,Corinne Lisette Hofman Pdf

The islands of the Caribbean are remarkably diverse, environmentally and culturally. Ranging from low limestone islands to volcanic islands with mountainous peaks, from rainforests to desert habitats, they are home to a mosaic of indigenous communities and to the descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Yet this diversity has become homogenized, for both the tourist and the historian. For instance, it was assumed that every new prehistoric culture had developed out of the culture that preceded it. Furthermore, the overly simplistic distinction between the "peaceful Arawak" and the "cannibal Carib," which forms the structure for James Michener's Caribbean, still dominates popular notions of precolonial Caribbean societies. This book documents the diversity and complexity that existed in the Caribbean prior to the arrival of Europeans, and immediately thereafter. The diversity results from different origins, different histories, different contacts between the islands and the mainland, different environmental conditions, and shifting social alliances. Organized chronologically, from the arrival of the first humans - the paleo-Indians - in the sixth millennium BC to early contact with Europeans, The Caribbean before Columbus presents a new history of the region based on the latest archaeological evidence. The authors also consider cultural developments on the surrounding mainland, since the islands' history is a story of mobility and exchange across the Caribbean Sea, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits. The result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the richly complex cultures who once inhabited the six archipelagoes of the Caribbean. -- from back cover.

Author : Jay B Haviser,Kevin C MacDonald
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598742831

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AFRICAN RE-GENESIS by Jay B Haviser,Kevin C MacDonald Pdf

An exploration of the archaeology of the African diaspora.