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Piazzas or stadiums : toward an alternative account of museums in cultural and urban development

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posted on 2014-02-24, 11:44 authored by Lisanne Gibson
Over the last twenty-five years or so there has been a ‘cultural turn’ in urban development strategies. An analysis of the academic literature over this period reveals that the role of new museums in such developments has oft en been viewed reductively as brands of cultural distinction with economic pump priming objectives. Over the same twenty-five year period there has also been what is termed here a ‘libertarian turn’ in museum studies and museology. Counterposing discussions of the museum’s role within urban development with discussions from within the museum studies literature on the ‘post-museum’ reveals the dichotomous nature of these approaches to the museum. This article proposes instead a consideration of the phenomenotechnics of new museum developments. This approach presents a way of taking account of both technical and symbolic conditions and characteristics and in doing so, it is hoped, provides a way of analyzing the ‘realpolitik’ of the role of museums in urban development.

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Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, 2013, 1 (1), pp. 101-112

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND LAW/School of Museum Studies

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Museum Worlds: Advances in Research

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Berghahn Journals

issn

2049-6729

eissn

2049-6737

Copyright date

2013

Available date

2014-07-01

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http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/armw/2013/00000001/00000001/art00007

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, 2013, 1 (1), pp. 101-112] is available online at: http://dx/doi.org/10.3167/armw.2013.010107.;The file associated with this record is embargoed while permission to archive is sought from the publisher. The final published version may be available through the links above.

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