Karen Exell

Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula examines the recent and rapid development of museums in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. These states are dynamically involved in establishing museums to preserve and represent their distinct national culture and heritage, and Museum Studies literature has struggled to keep up. Contextualising this study in the history and politics of the region, this in-depth overview and critical analysis of museums in the Arabian Peninsula stands alone as an entry into this important topic. Museums Studies students and museum professionals now have a book that fills an important gap in the picture of the museum worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415744904
• ISBN-10: 0415744903
• Artikelnr.: 43017048

Autorenporträt

Karen Exell is Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Qatar. She has over 15 years' experience of museums and heritage, and has been teaching museum studies in Qatar for the past four years and advising on the development of regional museum projects. Prior to this she worked as a curator and lecturer in the UK. Karen's research interests include the role and meaning of museums outside the West, and museums and the construction of knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Questions of Globalisation, Modernity and the
Museum in the Arabian Peninsula Chapter 2: Building Nations in a Modern
Middle East Chapter 3: Staging Identity in a Globalised World Chapter 4:
Universal Art Museums in the Arabian Peninsula Chapter 5: Knowledge
Production in the Realm of Culture Chapter 6: 'We are not people of the
city': Narratives of Purity and Exclusion Chapter 7: Oil, Conflict and
Memory in the Arabian Peninsula: Private Collections and Museums Chapter 8:
'... [T]his shifting present which we call the future'

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Questions of Globalisation, Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula
Chapter 2: Building Nations in a Modern Middle East
Chapter 3: Staging Identity in a Globalised World
Chapter 4: Universal Art Museums in the Arabian Peninsula
Chapter 5: Knowledge Production in the Realm of Culture
Chapter 6: 'We are not people of the city': Narratives of Purity and Exclusion
Chapter 7: Oil, Conflict and Memory in the Arabian Peninsula: Private Collections and Museums
Chapter 8: '... [T]his shifting present which we call the future'

Rezensionen

"Overall, Exell portrays a broad and varied picture of the Arabian museum landscape: as people negotiate their relationship with modernity, some take a more global view, while others seek to highlight their own cultures and traditions. These processes happen simultaneously, which requires the observer to have a holistic vision of museums and cultural production in the region. Exell's book provides us with the methodological and emotional tools to comprehend that vision."

Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State University, USA