Museums, Power, Knowledge av Tony (University of Western Sydney Australia) Bennett

489,-

Kjøp

<P>Few perspectives have invigorated the development of critical museum studies over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as Foucault¿s account of the relations between knowledge and power and their role in processes of governing. Within this literature, Tony Bennett¿s work stands out as having marked a series of strategic engagements with Foucault¿s work to offer a critical genealogy of the public museum, offering an account of its nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century development that has been constantly alert to the politics of museums in the present. </P><P></P><I><P>Museums, Power, Knowledge</I> brings together new research with a set of essays initially published in diverse contexts, making available for the first time the full range of Bennett¿s critical museology. Ranging across natural history, anthropological art, geological and history museums and their precursors in earlier collecting institutions, and spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-fi