Rhiannon Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhiannon Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhiannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3609-5780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices
Bringing museal silence into focus: Eight Ways of Thinking About Silence in Museums
In recent years memory studies scholars have begun to focus on how silence is an integral part of processes of remembering. As places of memory we would expect museums to be at the heart of such debates. However, until now there has been no systematic attempt to delineate different ways that silence is present and operating within museums. In this article we draw on a series of international examples to ask how the specifics of museums as forms o…
Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics
Collecting and collections
The Personal is still Political: Museums, Participation and Copyright
Copyright is a means of managing the interests of individual authors and those of the 'public interest'. In a museum context, copyright is a technical practice which illuminates how museums imagine and manage their own organizational legitimacy - a settlement which has often operated through a 'public interest argument' ('we need you to hand over control of your object/story for the benefit of all'). Drawing on interviews with people who work in …
Museums in a Global World
The following conversation took place during the Critical Heritage Studies conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 6 June 2012. The initial idea and topic was suggested by Kylie Message, the session was chaired by Conal McCarthy, and the recording was transcribed by Jennifer Walklate and edited by Conal McCarthy and Jennifer Walklate
National Museums, Globalization, and Postnationalism
In recent years it has been asked whether it is time to move ‘beyond the national museum’. This article takes issue with this assertion on the grounds that it misunderstands not only museums as cultural phenomenon but also the ways in which globalization, nationalism, and localism are always enmeshed and co-constitutive. The article begins by considering theories of globalization, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism and their relevance for natio…
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Nation Building at the Museum of Welsh Life
This article explores the representational problems inherent in one museum’s attempt to tell a ‘national story’. The museum in question started life as the ‘Welsh Folk Museum’ but in 1995 became the much broader ‘Museum of Welsh Life’. This article examines how and why this change occurred and the challenges produced by this shift in remit. The article also illustrates the processes of selection and revision which occur within museum representati…
Conflict and Complement: An Exploration of the Discourses Informing the Concept of the Socially Inclusive Museum in Contemporary Britain
This paper argues that there are a number of competing discourses informing debates about the idea of the ‘socially inclusive museum’ in Britain today. It identifies three major discourses present from the 19th century to the present day—the governmental, the representational, and the economic—and explores the relationships between them. It is proposed that recognition of the respective ideological and historical contexts of these different disco…
Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum
(2003). Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum. Sport in History: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 115-131
European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices
European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices focuses on the intersection of heritage, dialogue and digital culture in the context of Europe. Responding to the increased emphasis on the potential for heritage and digital technologies to foster dialogue and engender communitarian identities in Europe, the book explores what kind of role digital tools, platforms and practices play in supporting and challenging dialogue about heritage in the reg…
Bringing museal silence into focus: Eight Ways of Thinking About Silence in Museums
In recent years memory studies scholars have begun to focus on how silence is an integral part of processes of remembering. As places of memory we would expect museums to be at the heart of such debates. However, until now there has been no systematic attempt to delineate different ways that silence is present and operating within museums. In this article we draw on a series of international examples to ask how the specifics of museums as forms o…
Conflict and Complement: An Exploration of the Discourses Informing the Concept of the Socially Inclusive Museum in Contemporary Britain
This paper argues that there are a number of competing discourses informing debates about the idea of the ‘socially inclusive museum’ in Britain today. It identifies three major discourses present from the 19th century to the present day—the governmental, the representational, and the economic—and explores the relationships between them. It is proposed that recognition of the respective ideological and historical contexts of these different disco…
The Personal is still Political: Museums, Participation and Copyright
Copyright is a means of managing the interests of individual authors and those of the 'public interest'. In a museum context, copyright is a technical practice which illuminates how museums imagine and manage their own organizational legitimacy - a settlement which has often operated through a 'public interest argument' ('we need you to hand over control of your object/story for the benefit of all'). Drawing on interviews with people who work in …
Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum
(2003). Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum. Sport in History: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 115-131
Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum
(2003). Soccer, Public History and the National Football Museum. Sport in History: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 115-131
Conflict and Complement: An Exploration of the Discourses Informing the Concept of the Socially Inclusive Museum in Contemporary Britain
This paper argues that there are a number of competing discourses informing debates about the idea of the ‘socially inclusive museum’ in Britain today. It identifies three major discourses present from the 19th century to the present day—the governmental, the representational, and the economic—and explores the relationships between them. It is proposed that recognition of the respective ideological and historical contexts of these different disco…
Nation Building at the Museum of Welsh Life
This article explores the representational problems inherent in one museum’s attempt to tell a ‘national story’. The museum in question started life as the ‘Welsh Folk Museum’ but in 1995 became the much broader ‘Museum of Welsh Life’. This article examines how and why this change occurred and the challenges produced by this shift in remit. The article also illustrates the processes of selection and revision which occur within museum representati…
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Museums in a Global World
The following conversation took place during the Critical Heritage Studies conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 6 June 2012. The initial idea and topic was suggested by Kylie Message, the session was chaired by Conal McCarthy, and the recording was transcribed by Jennifer Walklate and edited by Conal McCarthy and Jennifer Walklate
National Museums, Globalization, and Postnationalism
In recent years it has been asked whether it is time to move ‘beyond the national museum’. This article takes issue with this assertion on the grounds that it misunderstands not only museums as cultural phenomenon but also the ways in which globalization, nationalism, and localism are always enmeshed and co-constitutive. The article begins by considering theories of globalization, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism and their relevance for natio…
The Personal is still Political: Museums, Participation and Copyright
Copyright is a means of managing the interests of individual authors and those of the 'public interest'. In a museum context, copyright is a technical practice which illuminates how museums imagine and manage their own organizational legitimacy - a settlement which has often operated through a 'public interest argument' ('we need you to hand over control of your object/story for the benefit of all'). Drawing on interviews with people who work in …
Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics
Collecting and collections
European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices
Bringing museal silence into focus: Eight Ways of Thinking About Silence in Museums
In recent years memory studies scholars have begun to focus on how silence is an integral part of processes of remembering. As places of memory we would expect museums to be at the heart of such debates. However, until now there has been no systematic attempt to delineate different ways that silence is present and operating within museums. In this article we draw on a series of international examples to ask how the specifics of museums as forms o…
European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices
European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices focuses on the intersection of heritage, dialogue and digital culture in the context of Europe. Responding to the increased emphasis on the potential for heritage and digital technologies to foster dialogue and engender communitarian identities in Europe, the book explores what kind of role digital tools, platforms and practices play in supporting and challenging dialogue about heritage in the reg…
Sociology (8 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)