Sterling, Colin and Larkin, Jamie (eds.) 2021. Repair [Special Volume]. Museums & Social Issues Vols. 15(1-2) & 16(1)
This special ‘relaunch’ volume of Museums & Social Issues crosses three issues of the journal, covering 16 research articles and shorter essays from a variety of scholars and practitioners. You can read and download all the papers and our editorial here.*
Contents
Volume 15, Issue 1
Suse Anderson, “We felt unsafe.” Rethinking risk, harm, and safety in museums
Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Pollution and permanence: museum repair in toxic worlds
Nuala Morse, Care, repair, and the future social relevance of museums
Quoc-Tan Tran, “Working things out”: a back-stage examination of museum documentation
Ren Ewart, Peripheral Witnessing: needlework repair in Tacita Dean’s “Darmstädter Werkblock”
Volume 15, Issue 2
Noémie Etienne, Who cares? Museum conservation between colonial violence and symbolic repair
Marla R. Miller & Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Joining reinterpretation to reparations
Amanda Furiasse, Under Oshun’s Gaze: Africana religions as a model for repatriation
Cassandra Kist, Repairing online spaces for “safe” outreach with older adults
Paul Piwko et al., Exhibitions about mental health – a platform for repairing perceptions and developing literacy
Cintia Velázquez-Marroni, Book Review: Contested Holdings: Museum collections in political, epistemic and artistic processes of return
Volume 16, Issue 1
Adriana Valderrama Lopez, Geographies of Truth: Art and Symbolic repair at Casa de la Memoria Museum
Amy Melia, Institutional experiments in urban relationality: repairing the social bond in capitalist urbanism
Helen Murphy & Ya-ling Chang, Repair through empathy: narratives of reconciliation in two white terror memorial parks in Taiwan
Krasimira Butseva, Vernacular memorial museums: memory, trauma and healing in post-community Bulgaria
Bridget McKenzie, Time to mend: rewilding museums
Colin Sterling 