Shelley Ruth Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 126663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley Ruth Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Museums in the Pandemic
Throughout human history, the spread of disease has closed borders, restricted civic movement, and fueled fear of the unknown; yet at the same time, it has helped build cultural resilience. On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. The novel zoonotic disease, first reported to the WHO in December 2019, was no longer restricted to Wuhan or to China, as the highly contagious coronavirus had spread to mo…
Should I stay or should I go? Negotiating township tours in post-apartheid South Africa
This article focuses on township tours outside Cape Town and Johannesburg during the past decade. By examining the subjectivities of guides and tourists, as well as public discourses about townships, I argue that township tours are ethically problematic and ambiguous, but do not go uncontested. Questions about voyeurism and development are negotiated during the tours in a number of ways. First, the morality of witnessing townships – not through t…
The Politics of Exhibiting Culture
Blank Architecture, Apartheid and After
Hilton Judin and Ivan Vladislavić", eds. blank_ Architecture, Apartheid and After. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 1998
Blank Architecture, Apartheid and After
Hilton Judin and Ivan Vladislavić", eds. blank_ Architecture, Apartheid and After. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 1998
Should I stay or should I go? Negotiating township tours in post-apartheid South Africa
This article focuses on township tours outside Cape Town and Johannesburg during the past decade. By examining the subjectivities of guides and tourists, as well as public discourses about townships, I argue that township tours are ethically problematic and ambiguous, but do not go uncontested. Questions about voyeurism and development are negotiated during the tours in a number of ways. First, the morality of witnessing townships – not through t…
The Politics of Exhibiting Culture
Blank Architecture, Apartheid and After
Hilton Judin and Ivan Vladislavić", eds. blank_ Architecture, Apartheid and After. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 1998
The Politics of Exhibiting Culture
Should I stay or should I go? Negotiating township tours in post-apartheid South Africa
This article focuses on township tours outside Cape Town and Johannesburg during the past decade. By examining the subjectivities of guides and tourists, as well as public discourses about townships, I argue that township tours are ethically problematic and ambiguous, but do not go uncontested. Questions about voyeurism and development are negotiated during the tours in a number of ways. First, the morality of witnessing townships – not through t…
Museums in the Pandemic
Throughout human history, the spread of disease has closed borders, restricted civic movement, and fueled fear of the unknown; yet at the same time, it has helped build cultural resilience. On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. The novel zoonotic disease, first reported to the WHO in December 2019, was no longer restricted to Wuhan or to China, as the highly contagious coronavirus had spread to mo…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture, Modernity, and Design (1 work)