June 28, 2002
The Role of Museums
Museums are ideological battlegrounds. They "invoke ideals, recast realities, and manufacture meanings," writes Timothy W. Luke, a professor of political science at Virginia Tech, in Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition (University of Minnesota Press).
Q. You argue that mainstream social science is blind to museums and that this is a "tragic flaw." Why?
A. Few American political scientists are attuned to material culture or cultural representations of the sort that one
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