Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street

Kylie Message

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Routledge
17 September 2019

Museums & museology

Series: Museums in Focus

Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of ‘the 99%’.

Examining processes of collection development as a lens through which to investigate the sociology of protest and reform movements, the book questions what contribution a dual study of the material culture of dissent and the production of a collection hosting the material culture of dissent might offer to a range of disciplines and practices. It asks if and how a collections-based study can test the propositions, tactics, and limits of activism from archival, museological, and political perspectives.

Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street draws from interdisciplinary fields, including museum studies, collection studies, archive studies, cultural studies, and public history. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners engaged with contemporary cause-based collecting, activist archiving, public history, and the cultural politics and sociology of social reform movements. It models strategies for ‘activating’ historical archives and collections-based data, and for engaging with autoethnographic records to represent and analyze the material residue of protest and reform movements today.

By: Kylie Message
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781138240124
ISBN 10: 1138240125
Series: Museums in Focus
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Go document history as it happens 1. Activist collecting: Writing movement lives through things 2. Object lessons: Occupy Wall Street. Bring tent 3. Organizing action: Archiving Occupy Conclusion: This changes everything

Kylie Message is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre and Associate Dean (Research) for the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Her recent publications include The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge, Museums and Racism, and Museums and Social Activism: Engaged Protest. She is the Founding Series Editor of ‘Museums in Focus’.