TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katz,Meighen
TI  - Narratives of vulnerability in museums: American interpretations of the Great Depression 
T2  - Routledge research in museum studies
SN  - 9780429468698
AV  - AM7 
U1  - 069.0973/0904 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Museums
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Federal aid to the arts
KW  - New Deal, 1933-1939
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Group identity
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - REFERENCE / General
KW  - TRAVEL / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
KW  - HISTORY / North America
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Introduction: The Great Depression, museums and narratives of vulnerability -- Shaking off the dustbowl: strikes and the challenge of iconic history -- Belonging: interpretations of home, homelessness and neighborhoods -- The arts and the imagined audience: theatre, radio and the emotion of vulnerability -- The big ball of string: concluding thoughts
N2  - Narratives of Vulnerability in Museums is a study of the challenges museums face when they present narratives of instability, uncertainty, and fear in their exhibitions. As a period of sustained societal and personal vulnerability, the Great Depression remains a watershed era in American history. It is an era when iconic visual culture of deprivation mixes in the popular imagination with groundbreaking government policy and has immense potential for museums, but this is accompanied by significant challenges. Analysing a range of case studies, the book explores both the successes and obstacles involved in translating historical narratives of vulnerability to the exhibition floor. Incorporating an innovative, trans-genre museological model, the book draws connections between exhibitions of history, art, and technology, as well as heritage sites, focused on a single era. Employing interpretations of housing, preserved and reconstructed, to discuss ideas of belonging and community, the book also examines the power of the iconic national story and the struggle for local relevance through discussions on strikes and industrial action. Finally, it examines the use of fine art in history exhibitions to access the emotional aspects of historical experience. The result is a volume that considers both how societies talk about less celebratory aspects of history, but also the expectations placed on museums as interpreters of the public narrative and agents of change. Narratives of Vulnerability in Museums makes a significant contribution to discourses of museum and heritage studies, of interwar history, of the social role of cultural institutions, and to vulnerability and resilience studies. As such, it should be essential reading for scholars and students working in these disciplines, as well as architecture, cultural studies, and human geography
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429468698
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -