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Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum
Edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd,
and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher: Routledge (February 2010)
288 pages
Hardcover: 978-0-415-49471-7
Paperback: 978-0-415-49473-1
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Re-Presenting Disability is the first comprehensive publication, international in scope, to explore issues surrounding the ways in which disability and disabled people are represented in museums, galleries and other cultural and heritage settings. This volume of provocative and timely contributions brings together twenty researchers, practitioners and academics from different disciplinary, institutional and cultural contexts to explore issues surrounding the cultural representation of disabled people and, more particularly, the inclusion (as well as the marked absence) of disability-related narratives in museum and gallery displays. The diverse perspectives featured in the book offer fresh ways of interrogating and understanding contemporary representational practices as well as illuminating existing, related debates concerning identity politics, social agency and organizational purposes and responsibilities, which have considerable currency within museums and museum studies.