Anwar Tlili
Biographic Data
| ID | 219404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anwar Tlili |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anwar |
| FAMILY NAME | Tlili |
| SIGNATURE | TLILI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Art Gallery Education Between Translation and Dialogism
Drawing on insights drawn from multidisciplinary studies of the arts and translation studies, this article aims to conceptualize the work of translation within art gallery education.It unpacks and characterizes a mode of translation that is unique and necessary for an engaging art gallery education, taking multiple and subtle forms, operating on different facets of the conception and delivery of art gallery education activities.This includes a re…
Symbolic Capital
Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital aims to capture and explain the unequally distributed symbolic resources in society that usually go by the names of social esteem, credit, and honour. Unlike other forms of capital theorized by Bourdieu, symbolic capital forms within the intersection of relations and perceptions. To that extent, nothing in itself constitutes symbolic capital; rather, it is generated when a property, trait, or aspect of lifes…
Social Capital
The core idea of “social capital” is that one's group relations or memberships play a significant role in facilitating purposive action and attaining desirable ends; this has many precedents, but its conceptual salience is fairly recent and dates back to the 1980s. There has since been an explosion in the literature on social capital, and a spectacular uptake of the concept by many policy‐making constituencies. Despite the many variations in and …
In Search of Museum Professional Knowledge Base
Museum professionalism remains an unexplored area in museum studies, particularly with regard to what is arguably the core generic question of a sui generis professional knowledge base, and its necessary and sufficient conditions. The need to examine this question becomes all the more important with the increasing expansion of the museum’s roles and functions. This paper starts by mapping out the policy and organizational context within which the…
Encountering the Creative Museum
The aim of this article is to trace some lines of thinking towards a conceptualization of the uniqueness of the creative work of museums, the mode of creativeness that belongs exclusively to museums, or at least that museums are capable of by virtue of the types of materials and forms as well as activities unique to what will be referred to as museography. This is linked to the question of what it is that constitutes the uniqueness of museum work…
Managing performance in publicly funded museums in England
Based on accounts gathered from nine museums and four professional/policy-making bodies, as well as policy analysis, this article maps out and assesses the effects of and ways of experiencing the new managerialist mode of governance within the publicly funded museums in England, focusing specifically on performance management in museums. It will be argued that the performance management regime has impacted local authority museums and national mus…
What Is Coleman's Social Capital the Name of? A Critique of a Not Very Social Capital
Coleman's concept of social capital has acquired an eminent place within various regions of the current sociological imagination as well as in policy discourses. Yet, it is founded on some very questionable premises. This article starts by reconstructing and assessing the problem - theoretical and empirical - that Coleman's social capital sought to respond to. Then it examines the sociological thrust of social capital to show how Coleman's formul…
Unfolding Deleuze's Concepts of Philosophy and Science
Mediating Science and Society in the EU and UK
The organisational identity of science centres
This paper presents an empirically grounded mapping of the organisational identity that science centres in the UK are trying to carve out for themselves against the backdrop of developing organisational strategies and multiple external pressures, expectations and perceptions. I attempt this through a relational analysis that views the science centres’ organisational identity formation as constituted by and through a dialectic of autonomy and hete…
Behind the Policy Mantra of the Inclusive Museum
The new UK policy framework for museums aims to reconfigure their social role and organizational identity. Central to this process are the Government's generic concepts of social exclusion/inclusion incorporated into museum policies to make museums more socially responsible and responsive through their contribution to tackling social exclusion. Based on accounts, views and experiences of a cross-section of staff from two science museums and two s…
Rendering Equality and Diversity Policies in Uk Higher Education Institutions
As employers, higher education institutions in the UK are now under a statutory obligation to institute and implement equal opportunities policies. Integral to the process of instituting and implementing equal opportunities policies is effective communication of the policies. In this paper I conduct a critical discourse analysis of the staff equal opportunities policies of six UK higher education institutions as they were presented on their websi…
New Labour's Socially Responsible Museum
By reference to key policy texts and the discourses and arguments within which they are embedded, in this paper we trace the discursive genealogy of a new public service: the museum sector. We examine the ways in which recent UK government and related policy agencies have extended, multiplied and refracted normative, regulatory and operative conceptions of the social function of museums. Over the last ten years in particular policy discourses hav…
What Becomes of Science in a Science Centre? Reconfiguring Science for Public Consumption
This paper draws upon ten interviews conducted with staff at two science centres as part of a research project on science centres and social and cultural inclusion. We will argue that these science
Learn to Consume, Teach to Account
The UK government's 2004 law, aiming to make universities contribute to Britain's success in the global knowledge economy, creates an explicit market in higher education. Students are presumed to occupy the status of consumer in an economic transaction with universities. The law gives students a right to information and an audit function so that their choices as 'intelligent consumers' will 'drive change' in universities. Interviews in two contra…
Behind the Policy Mantra of the Inclusive Museum
The new UK policy framework for museums aims to reconfigure their social role and organizational identity. Central to this process are the Government's generic concepts of social exclusion/inclusion incorporated into museum policies to make museums more socially responsible and responsive through their contribution to tackling social exclusion. Based on accounts, views and experiences of a cross-section of staff from two science museums and two s…
New Labour's Socially Responsible Museum
By reference to key policy texts and the discourses and arguments within which they are embedded, in this paper we trace the discursive genealogy of a new public service: the museum sector. We examine the ways in which recent UK government and related policy agencies have extended, multiplied and refracted normative, regulatory and operative conceptions of the social function of museums. Over the last ten years in particular policy discourses hav…
Mediating Science and Society in the EU and UK
What Becomes of Science in a Science Centre? Reconfiguring Science for Public Consumption
This paper draws upon ten interviews conducted with staff at two science centres as part of a research project on science centres and social and cultural inclusion. We will argue that these science
Encountering the Creative Museum
The aim of this article is to trace some lines of thinking towards a conceptualization of the uniqueness of the creative work of museums, the mode of creativeness that belongs exclusively to museums, or at least that museums are capable of by virtue of the types of materials and forms as well as activities unique to what will be referred to as museography. This is linked to the question of what it is that constitutes the uniqueness of museum work…
Managing performance in publicly funded museums in England
Based on accounts gathered from nine museums and four professional/policy-making bodies, as well as policy analysis, this article maps out and assesses the effects of and ways of experiencing the new managerialist mode of governance within the publicly funded museums in England, focusing specifically on performance management in museums. It will be argued that the performance management regime has impacted local authority museums and national mus…
Rendering Equality and Diversity Policies in Uk Higher Education Institutions
As employers, higher education institutions in the UK are now under a statutory obligation to institute and implement equal opportunities policies. Integral to the process of instituting and implementing equal opportunities policies is effective communication of the policies. In this paper I conduct a critical discourse analysis of the staff equal opportunities policies of six UK higher education institutions as they were presented on their websi…
In Search of Museum Professional Knowledge Base
Museum professionalism remains an unexplored area in museum studies, particularly with regard to what is arguably the core generic question of a sui generis professional knowledge base, and its necessary and sufficient conditions. The need to examine this question becomes all the more important with the increasing expansion of the museum’s roles and functions. This paper starts by mapping out the policy and organizational context within which the…
Symbolic Capital
Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital aims to capture and explain the unequally distributed symbolic resources in society that usually go by the names of social esteem, credit, and honour. Unlike other forms of capital theorized by Bourdieu, symbolic capital forms within the intersection of relations and perceptions. To that extent, nothing in itself constitutes symbolic capital; rather, it is generated when a property, trait, or aspect of lifes…
What Is Coleman's Social Capital the Name of? A Critique of a Not Very Social Capital
Coleman's concept of social capital has acquired an eminent place within various regions of the current sociological imagination as well as in policy discourses. Yet, it is founded on some very questionable premises. This article starts by reconstructing and assessing the problem - theoretical and empirical - that Coleman's social capital sought to respond to. Then it examines the sociological thrust of social capital to show how Coleman's formul…
The organisational identity of science centres
This paper presents an empirically grounded mapping of the organisational identity that science centres in the UK are trying to carve out for themselves against the backdrop of developing organisational strategies and multiple external pressures, expectations and perceptions. I attempt this through a relational analysis that views the science centres’ organisational identity formation as constituted by and through a dialectic of autonomy and hete…
Learn to Consume, Teach to Account
The UK government's 2004 law, aiming to make universities contribute to Britain's success in the global knowledge economy, creates an explicit market in higher education. Students are presumed to occupy the status of consumer in an economic transaction with universities. The law gives students a right to information and an audit function so that their choices as 'intelligent consumers' will 'drive change' in universities. Interviews in two contra…
What Becomes of Science in a Science Centre? Reconfiguring Science for Public Consumption
This paper draws upon ten interviews conducted with staff at two science centres as part of a research project on science centres and social and cultural inclusion. We will argue that these science
Rendering Equality and Diversity Policies in Uk Higher Education Institutions
As employers, higher education institutions in the UK are now under a statutory obligation to institute and implement equal opportunities policies. Integral to the process of instituting and implementing equal opportunities policies is effective communication of the policies. In this paper I conduct a critical discourse analysis of the staff equal opportunities policies of six UK higher education institutions as they were presented on their websi…
New Labour's Socially Responsible Museum
By reference to key policy texts and the discourses and arguments within which they are embedded, in this paper we trace the discursive genealogy of a new public service: the museum sector. We examine the ways in which recent UK government and related policy agencies have extended, multiplied and refracted normative, regulatory and operative conceptions of the social function of museums. Over the last ten years in particular policy discourses hav…
The organisational identity of science centres
This paper presents an empirically grounded mapping of the organisational identity that science centres in the UK are trying to carve out for themselves against the backdrop of developing organisational strategies and multiple external pressures, expectations and perceptions. I attempt this through a relational analysis that views the science centres’ organisational identity formation as constituted by and through a dialectic of autonomy and hete…
Behind the Policy Mantra of the Inclusive Museum
The new UK policy framework for museums aims to reconfigure their social role and organizational identity. Central to this process are the Government's generic concepts of social exclusion/inclusion incorporated into museum policies to make museums more socially responsible and responsive through their contribution to tackling social exclusion. Based on accounts, views and experiences of a cross-section of staff from two science museums and two s…
Mediating Science and Society in the EU and UK
Unfolding Deleuze's Concepts of Philosophy and Science
Managing performance in publicly funded museums in England
Based on accounts gathered from nine museums and four professional/policy-making bodies, as well as policy analysis, this article maps out and assesses the effects of and ways of experiencing the new managerialist mode of governance within the publicly funded museums in England, focusing specifically on performance management in museums. It will be argued that the performance management regime has impacted local authority museums and national mus…
What Is Coleman's Social Capital the Name of? A Critique of a Not Very Social Capital
Coleman's concept of social capital has acquired an eminent place within various regions of the current sociological imagination as well as in policy discourses. Yet, it is founded on some very questionable premises. This article starts by reconstructing and assessing the problem - theoretical and empirical - that Coleman's social capital sought to respond to. Then it examines the sociological thrust of social capital to show how Coleman's formul…
In Search of Museum Professional Knowledge Base
Museum professionalism remains an unexplored area in museum studies, particularly with regard to what is arguably the core generic question of a sui generis professional knowledge base, and its necessary and sufficient conditions. The need to examine this question becomes all the more important with the increasing expansion of the museum’s roles and functions. This paper starts by mapping out the policy and organizational context within which the…
Encountering the Creative Museum
The aim of this article is to trace some lines of thinking towards a conceptualization of the uniqueness of the creative work of museums, the mode of creativeness that belongs exclusively to museums, or at least that museums are capable of by virtue of the types of materials and forms as well as activities unique to what will be referred to as museography. This is linked to the question of what it is that constitutes the uniqueness of museum work…
Social Capital
The core idea of “social capital” is that one's group relations or memberships play a significant role in facilitating purposive action and attaining desirable ends; this has many precedents, but its conceptual salience is fairly recent and dates back to the 1980s. There has since been an explosion in the literature on social capital, and a spectacular uptake of the concept by many policy‐making constituencies. Despite the many variations in and …
Symbolic Capital
Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital aims to capture and explain the unequally distributed symbolic resources in society that usually go by the names of social esteem, credit, and honour. Unlike other forms of capital theorized by Bourdieu, symbolic capital forms within the intersection of relations and perceptions. To that extent, nothing in itself constitutes symbolic capital; rather, it is generated when a property, trait, or aspect of lifes…
Art Gallery Education Between Translation and Dialogism
Drawing on insights drawn from multidisciplinary studies of the arts and translation studies, this article aims to conceptualize the work of translation within art gallery education.It unpacks and characterizes a mode of translation that is unique and necessary for an engaging art gallery education, taking multiple and subtle forms, operating on different facets of the conception and delivery of art gallery education activities.This includes a re…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)