March 2010, Volume 8 no. 1

Contents

• The Case of the disappearing object: narratives and artefacts in homes and a museum exhibition from Pakistani heritage families in South Yorkshire
  Kate Pahl and Andy Pollard
• Objects of utility: cultural responses to industrial collections in municipal museums 1845-1914
  Robert Snape
• Between histories and memories:Torgau’s Memorial Museum for Germany’s short twentieth century
  Andrew H. Beattie

Book Reviews

• Christiane Paul (ed.), New Media in the White Cube and Beyond
  Christopher R. Marshall
• Brian Graham and Peter Howard (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity
  Elsa Peralta
• Sharon Macdonald, Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond
  Dan Stone

July 2010, Volume 8 no. 2

Contents

• The V&A: empire to multiculturalism?
  Ruth Adams
• Heritage, local communities and the safeguarding of ‘Spirit of Place’ in Taiwan
  Peter Davis, Han-yin Huang, Wan-chen Liu
• Instructions between the field and the lab: collecting blood for the ‘Serological Museum’ in the 1950s
  Dr. Priska Gisler

Review Article

• The Empty gallery? Issues of subjects, objects and spaces.
  Kevin Hetherington

Book Reviews

• Janet Marstine (ed.), New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction.
  Rhiannon Mason
• John Potvin and Alla Myzelev (eds), Material Cultures, 1740-1920; The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting.
  Julia Petrov

November 2010, Volume 8 no. 3

Contents

• Guest Editorial: museums and the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade
  Laurajane Smith, Geoffrey Cubitt, Emma Waterton
• Humiliated silence: multiculturalism, blame and the trope of ‘moving on’
  Emma Waterton
• Lines of resistance: evoking and configuring the theme of resistance in museum displays in Britain around the bicentenary of 1807
  Geoffrey Cubitt
• Rethinking 1807: museums, knowledge and expertise
  Ross Wilson
• ‘Community voices, curatorial choices’: community consultation for the 1807 exhibitions
  Kalliopi Fouseki
• ‘Man’s inhumanity to man’ and other platitudes of avoidance and misrecognition: an analysis of visitor responses to exhibitions marking the 1807 bicentenary
  Laurajane Smith

Book Reviews

• Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boëtsch, Éric Deroo and Sandrine Lemaire (eds), Teresa Bridgeman (trans.), Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empires
  Thad Parsons
• John M. Mackenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural history, human cultures and colonial identities
  Shelley Ruth Butler
• Joachim Baur, Die Musealisierung der Migration: Einwanderungsmuseen und die Inszenierung der multikulturellen
  Robin Ostow
• Gwyneira Isaac, Mediating Knowledges: Origins of a Zuni Tribal Museum
  Jessica Zimmer