scholarly journals Editorial

Museum Worlds ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. vii-xi
Author(s):  
Conal McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
At Home

After a tumultuous year around the globe in the wake of COVID 19, the cultural sector, including museums, galleries, and other institutions, as well as universities, have emerged in 2021 scathed but still functioning. As an academic journal engaged with professional museum practice, it is to be expected that Museum Worlds 9 will reflect the unprecedented impact of the pandemic. If the 2020 issue was difficult to collate and produce, this year’s issue was doubly so: academics and students are busy, stressed, and preoccupied with teaching online, while museum professionals are overworked, or out of work, or at home with their museums closed, and there are few exhibitions and public programs. Even the publishing industry seems to have been severely affected: new titles have been delayed, it is tricky to get books sent to readers due to holdups with freight, and writers, reviewers, and editors are busy, busy, busy.

The Literary Marketplace of British India: 1780–1844

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máire ní Fhlathúin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
British India ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
At Home

This chapter discusses the material conditions for the emergence of a publishing and print culture in early British India and throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. It explores the demographic and economic factors affecting the development of the publishing industry. It argues that newspapers and literary titles were not simply a conduit for the distribution of the news and culture of ‘home’ across India, but also provided a forum in which the British community in India could write for (and often about) itself, thus enabling the development of a sense of local and colonial identity, related to but also set apart from the identity of the British at ‘home’.

Developing Support Networks

2004 ◽  
pp. 222-247
Author(s):  
Lynnette R. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Support Networks ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Computer Screen ◽  
At Home

Teaching online, as you have read in other chapters, is a collaborative effort, even though when you are teaching, you may feel “home alone” when you work online. When you are sitting in front of a computer screen, intellectually you may realize that you are connected to networks of learners, administrators, other teachers, and members of other support networks. However, those people often seem remote when you are working at home around midnight. You and your institution need to develop a series of support networks so that any learner or teacher working online at any time knows that she or he is not alone.

scholarly journals The Dangerous Museum. Participatory practices and controversy in museums today

1970 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Britta Tøndborg
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
The Past ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Related Development ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Museum Practice

Whereas museums shunned controversy in the past, this article argues that as museums embrace the new trend of audience participation some have also opted to introduce “hot topics” into museum exhibitions. Museum professionals who have adopted this particular form of museum practice predict that it has the potential to reform museums as we know them, and to turn museums into active agents for democratic change in society. In a bid to understand and scrutinize the implications of this development in museums, the article consults critiques raised by art critics writing about a related development in contemporary art, i.e. relational and participatory art forms. 

scholarly journals A Marxist Account of and Suggested Alternative to Capitalist Academic Publishing

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Peekhaus
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Capitalist Control

This paper examines and situates theoretically from a Marxist political economic perspective the capitalist model of academic publishing using Marx’s concepts of ‘primitive accumulation’ and ‘alienation.’ Primitive accumulation, understood as a continuing historical process necessary for capital accumulation, offers a theoretical framework to make sense of contemporary erosions of the knowledge commons that result from various enclosing strategies employed by capitalist academic journal publishers. As a theoretical complement, the article further suggests that some of the elements of alienation Marx articulated in respect of capitalist-controlled production processes capture the estrangement experienced by the actual producers of academic publications. After offering a short assessment of the open-access movement as a remedial response to the enclosing and alienating effects inherent in the capitalist-controlled academic publishing industry, the article briefly outlines a suggested alternative model for academic publishing that, building on open-access projects, could radically subvert capitalist control.

scholarly journals Plenary: The legacy of museum ethnography for indigenous people today - case studies from Aotearoa/New Zealand

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arapata Hakiwai ◽  
Paul Diamond
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
People Today

The following plenary took place at the seminar ‘Reassembling the material: A research seminar on museums, fieldwork anthropology and indigenous agency’ held in November 2012 at Te Herenga Waka marae, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. In the papers, indigenous scholars and museum professionals presented a mix of past legacies and contemporary initiatives which illustrated the evolving relations between Māori people, and museums and other cultural heritage institutions in New Zealand. Whereas most of the papers at this seminar, and the articles in this special issue, are focused on the history of ethnology, museums, and government, between about 1900 and 1940, this section brings the analysis up to the present day, and considers the legacy of the indigenous engagement with museums and fieldwork anthropology for contemporary museum practice. What do the findings, which show active and extensive indigenous engagements with museums and fieldwork, mean for indigenous museum professionals and communities today?

scholarly journals Patterns of accountability: an organizational approach to community engagement in museums.

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuala Morse
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Relational Practice ◽  
Organizational Frames ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Organizational Study ◽  
Relational Accountability ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
Organizational View

This paper considers the divergent and often contradictory registers of ‘community engagement’ in contemporary UK museum practice.  The paper draws on an organizational study of a large local authority museum service and focuses on how community engagement is constructed across a range of museum professionals who use it for different purposes and outcomes. I argue that different departments make sense of community engagement through four patterns of accountability, each with complimentary and divergent logics reflecting a wider range of museum functions, demands and pressures.  The tensions that arise are discussed. In the final part, the notion of ‘relational accountability’ (Moncrieffe 2011) is introduced to re-settle these divergent logics in order to argue for community engagement work that is grounded in a relational practice. The paper contributes to further theoretical and practical engagement with the work of participation in museums by bringing forward an organizational view to highlight the ways in which museum practice is mediated within organizational frames.

scholarly journals Mexico’s Tradition and Culture Entering the Digital Age: The Mexican Cultural Heritage Repository Project

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 356-365
Author(s):  
José Morales-del-Castillo ◽  
Pedro Ángeles Jiménez ◽  
Claudio Molina Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Large Scale Data ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Sector

Mexico is a country with a vast and extraordinary cultural heritage, which is the result of a rich history of cultural exchange, syncretism and transculturation. This rich culture has been materialized through the consolidation of a long and prestigious museum tradition, which at the same time is sadly characterized by an endemic lack of technological resources rather than professional skills. As a result, we have found that Mexican museums produce very heterogeneous forms of documentation, which are often not even managed using information technologies. Furthermore, most museums deploy ad hoc solutions that directly limit the usefulness and value of the documentation process itself. In response, the recently founded Mexican Ministry of Culture is undertaking the development of the Mexican cultural heritage data model (Modelo de Datos México), which is aimed at contributing to the cultural heritage domain of our country through the correct characterization and documentation of its cultural objects. It is the first documented experience in Mexico of a large-scale data model inspired by CIDOC-CRM, which is complemented by a set of terminological tools that attempt to capture the singularities and idiosyncrasies of the Mexican cultural sector. In the present paper, we will describe the motivations and decisions made so far to optimize the data model to the Mexican reality and the development of the project that will define a set of local terminologies built on the expertise of linguists, information architects, developers and especially, museum professionals.

Systematic Modification of Parental Input to Train Language Symbols

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Culatta ◽  
Donna Horn
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Meaningful Use ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Parental Input ◽  
Language Exposure ◽  
Therapy Sessions ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children ◽  
At Home

This study attempted to maximize environmental language learning for four hearing-impaired children. The children's mothers were systematically trained to present specific language symbols to their children at home. An increase in meaningful use of these words was observed during therapy sessions. In addition, as the mothers began to generalize the language exposure strategies, an increase was observed in the children's use of words not specifically identified by the clinician as targets.

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