The Museum's Borders: On the Challenge of Knowing and Remembering Well

by Simon J Knell

The Museum's Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices.

Arguing that the museum is a critical institution for the operation of knowledge-based democracies, Knell investigates how they have been used by scientists, art historians and historians to construct our bordered world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367486474
• ISBN13: 9780367486471
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.6"