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The politics of museums / Clive Gray, University of Warwick, UK.

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The politics of museums / Clive Gray, University of Warwick, UK.
Author
Gray, Clive
Publication
  • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Description
xi, 186 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
This is the first book to examine how and why museums are political institutions. By concentrating on the ways in which power, ideology and legitimacy work at the international, national and local levels of the museum experience, Clive Gray provides an original analysis of who exercises power and how power is used in museums.
Series Statement
New directions in cultural policy research
Uniform Title
New directions in cultural policy research.
Subject
  • Museums > Political aspects
  • Kulturpolitik
  • Museumspolitik
  • Politische Institution
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology
  • REFERENCE / General
  • TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
  • The arts
  • Society & social sciences
  • Science
  • Museer > politiska aspekter
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Museums and politics: an introduction -- The international politics of museums -- The national politics of museums -- The local politics of museums -- Museums as political institutions.
ISBN
  • 9781137493408
  • 1137493402
LCCN
^^2015018572
OCLC
  • 909321102
  • SCSB-10271029
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library