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36 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
University of Leicester : B - Museum studies
Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration
Golding acted as lead editor (80% of the editorial effort) to shape this book. Her vision guided and controlled the editorial process to ensure a coherent international breadth of scholarship, including contributions from both early career and established academics. She also contributed a co-authored preface, major introductory chapter outlining key issues (chapter 1), as well as a sole-authored chapter (chapter 12).
This chapter centrally employs the concept of creolization as theorised by Édouard Glissant, which highlights the power of community building and creativity arising from imperialism, without glossing over the horrors of transatlantic enslavement. It also considers key theories from humour studies, arguing that humour, like creolization, calls for a politically revolutionary stance, disruptive of the status quo maintaining hierarchies of privilege. Creolization and humour are employed to explore how innovative artist interventions in Europe and the USA may open the museum to new, ‘difficult or hard to reach’ audiences aged 15-25years, and also rejuvenate the experience of regular visitors
