Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: Museum Pasts and Decolonised Futures in Africa; 1. Beating the Drums: Co-curatorship and Reconfiguration of Colonial Ethnographic Collections; 2. Museum Activism: Decolonised Exhibition Practices, Public Pedagogies and Social Change; 3. Heritage, Communities and Collaborative Involvement at Matendera Archaeological Site; 4. Inclusion, Collaboration and Sustainable Heritage Conservation Practices at the Ziwa Archaeological Site; 5. Conclusion: Local Communities and the Future of the African Museum