Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums

by Daniela Fifi (Editor)

Overview

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology. Museums are sites of heritage management and, within Caribbean contexts, essential spaces for the examination of postcolonial relationships to past disenfranchisement.

This book helps to identify strategies within museology that can inspire meaningful collective engagement with these histories. In the process, it also identifies the hurdles museums in the Caribbean face when telling stories of ancestral oppression. Each chapter presents a new case study, written by five museum professionals and scholars fundamentally shaping conversations on cultural heritage spaces within the Caribbean and the diaspora of Caribbean nations. Using their observations this book coalesces an understanding of the specific limitations Caribbean cultural heritage spaces face and deploys new strategies for maximising their engagement potential.

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums is written for Museum Studies researchers and museum practitioners, especially those actively engaged in the process of preserving Caribbean cultural heritage, advancing museum development in the Caribbean or in other nations for future generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032493121
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2025
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniela Fifi has a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from Manchester University, UK. She is the Editor‑in‑Chief of Viewfinder E‑Journal, and served on the editorial board of Art Education, the official journal of the National Art Education Association (USA).

Table of Contents

SECTION I: Critical Issues in the Representation of Racial and Cultural Identities in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections; 1. Decolonising Caribbean Museum Education Curriculum through Culturally Responsive Curriculum; 2. The Role of Museums in Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Nevis; 3. Forging Community and Cultural Identity during a Pandemic: Collection Digitisation in Haiti And Barbados; SECTION II: Critical Issues in the Repatriation of Caribbean Cultural Heritage in Caribbean Museums and Global Collections; 4. Not In My Name: Heritage Conservation, Collection Care, and Repatriation within Caribbean Collections; 5. Amerindians in the Cupboard: On the Museological Treatment of Pre-Columbian Art in the Caribbean; SECTION III: Critical Issues of Caribbean Museum Management; 6. A Tri-Partite Approach to the Development of the Museum Sector in Trinidad and Tobago