{"product_id":"the-politics-of-display-museums-science-culture-heritage-carepreservationmanagement","title":"The Politics of Display: Museums  Science  Culture (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe assumption that museum exhibitions  particularly those concerned with science and technology  are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never  and never have been  above politics. Rather  technologies of display and ideas about science and objectivity are mobilized to tell stories of progress  citizenship  racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay  the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is a well-known case in point. The Politics of Display charts the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive  multimedia and reflexive modes of display. The Politics of Display brings together an array of international scholars in the disciplines of sociology  anthropology and history. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science  technology and industry  anthropology  geology  natural history and medicine  and locations include the United States of America  Australia  the United Kingdom  France  the Netherlands and Spain. This book is an excellent contribution to debates about the politics of public culture. It will be of interest to students of sociology  anthropology  cultural studies  museum studies and science studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964719820853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0415153263","price":55.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780415153263.jpg?v=1770476734","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-politics-of-display-museums-science-culture-heritage-carepreservationmanagement","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}