Tiffany Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiffany Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiffany |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dethroning historical reputations: Universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors
The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unaccepta…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Cultural Interventions
Who are we to decide?' Internal challenges to cultural authority in the contestation over human remains in British museums
In the past three decades, human remains in museum collections have become the focus of contestation. This paper analyses the construction of the issue in Britain. The literature on contestation in the museum primarily identifies external influences: the market, the pressure of social movements and intellectual currents. I propose an additional influence of internal activism. Drawing on empirical material, I demonstrate important campaigning acti…
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority
Exhibition Review: Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Life…and Death
Human remains: Dissection and its histories
Human remains: Dissection and its histories. By HELEN MACDONALD, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, 220pp., £19.99, hardback (ISBN 0300116993). This work adds to the growing historica
Dead bodies: The changing treatment of human remains in British museum collections and the challenge to the traditional model of the museum
The contestation over human remains in museum collections among indigenous groups, archaeologists, and museums that took place in the USA, Australasia, and Canada in the late 1980s developed more slowly in the UK. Law and codes of practise have now been passed to ensure the repatriation of human remains; the transfer to culturally affiliated groups is possible and accepted by the profession. This paper explores the influences on the construction …
Management Speak
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority
Human remains: Dissection and its histories
Human remains: Dissection and its histories. By HELEN MACDONALD, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, 220pp., £19.99, hardback (ISBN 0300116993). This work adds to the growing historica
Dead bodies: The changing treatment of human remains in British museum collections and the challenge to the traditional model of the museum
The contestation over human remains in museum collections among indigenous groups, archaeologists, and museums that took place in the USA, Australasia, and Canada in the late 1980s developed more slowly in the UK. Law and codes of practise have now been passed to ensure the repatriation of human remains; the transfer to culturally affiliated groups is possible and accepted by the profession. This paper explores the influences on the construction …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Cultural Interventions
Who are we to decide?' Internal challenges to cultural authority in the contestation over human remains in British museums
In the past three decades, human remains in museum collections have become the focus of contestation. This paper analyses the construction of the issue in Britain. The literature on contestation in the museum primarily identifies external influences: the market, the pressure of social movements and intellectual currents. I propose an additional influence of internal activism. Drawing on empirical material, I demonstrate important campaigning acti…
Management Speak
Exhibition Review: Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Life…and Death
Human remains: Dissection and its histories
Human remains: Dissection and its histories. By HELEN MACDONALD, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006, 220pp., £19.99, hardback (ISBN 0300116993). This work adds to the growing historica
Dead bodies: The changing treatment of human remains in British museum collections and the challenge to the traditional model of the museum
The contestation over human remains in museum collections among indigenous groups, archaeologists, and museums that took place in the USA, Australasia, and Canada in the late 1980s developed more slowly in the UK. Law and codes of practise have now been passed to ensure the repatriation of human remains; the transfer to culturally affiliated groups is possible and accepted by the profession. This paper explores the influences on the construction …
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority
Who are we to decide?' Internal challenges to cultural authority in the contestation over human remains in British museums
In the past three decades, human remains in museum collections have become the focus of contestation. This paper analyses the construction of the issue in Britain. The literature on contestation in the museum primarily identifies external influences: the market, the pressure of social movements and intellectual currents. I propose an additional influence of internal activism. Drawing on empirical material, I demonstrate important campaigning acti…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Cultural Interventions
Dethroning historical reputations: Universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors
The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unaccepta…
Sociology (4 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (3 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (3 works) · History (3 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Library science (2 works)