Sharon Macdonald: DIVERSE MUSEUM DIVERSITIES

‘Diversity’ has become a lively key word in contemporary museum discourse and practice, with numerous policies and initiatives being conducted under its banner. Achieving ‘diversity’ is seen as something to be celebrated – a good thing in itself. But quite what ‘diversity’ refers to is itself heterogeneous, with this only rarely explicitly articulated or even recognised. As such, what exists is a shifting field of diverse diversities, which variously interlink and reinforce each other but which may also mask critical discrepancies, disconnects, incompatibilities and even contrary ambitions. „Sharon Macdonald: DIVERSE MUSEUM DIVERSITIES“ weiterlesen