Curatopia : Museums and the Future of Curatorship

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on the text
Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
Part I: Europe
	The museum as method (revisited)
	What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the 
profusion of things
	Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an 
epistemology of postcolonial debate
	Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich
	Curating across the colonial divides
	Thinking and working through difference: remaking the 
ethnographic museum in the global contemporary
Part II: North America
	The times of the curator
	Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia
	Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums
	Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken?
	Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England
	c̓əsnaʔəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver
Part III: Pacific
	The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Māori curatorship past and present
	Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums
	Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society
	Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia
	Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting
	He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face to face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations
Afterwords
	Curating time
	Virtual museums and new directions?
Index