Key Theorists
This theorist argued that there have been “no great women artists” due to structural barriers.
Who is Linda Nochlin?
This article analyzed the Ration Shed as a post-museum.
What is Smith (Ration Shed article)?
Fragmentation, irony, and hybridity are key features of this cultural condition.
What is postmodernism?
Dyer argues disco was important for this community’s cultural expression.
What is gay / queer communities?
This term refers to the ideas and beliefs that shape how we understand the world.
What is ideology?
This theorist developed the theory that meaning is constructed.
Who is Stuart Hall?
This Calgary museum was our case study for transformation.
What is the Glenbow Museum?
Blending high and low culture is called this.
What is pastiche?
In Making Kin with the Machines, this concept emphasizes relationships beyond the human.
What is kinship / relationality?
This term refers to understanding your own position (identity, background) when analyzing culture.
What is positionality?
This scholar critiques research as a tool of colonialism.
Who is Linda Tuhiwai Smith?
Two types of change in museums: museological and ______.
What is institutional?
Jameson links postmodernism to this economic system.
What is late capitalism?
This concept refers to the overlapping systems of oppression (race, gender, class).
What is intersectionality?
The practice of centering relationships between humans and non-humans.
What is relationality?
This theorist argues that value is produced through “regimes of value.”
Who is John Frow?
Museums that historically collected objects through colonial systems.
What are ethnographic museums?
Postmodernism rejects this idea: one universal truth.
What are metanarratives?
Smith argues that research has historically been tied to this system of power.
What is colonialism?
In film and media theory, this concept explains why women are often shown as objects to be looked at rather than active subjects.
What is the male gaze?
This theorist introduced the concept of the cyborg to challenge boundaries between human and machine.
Who is Donna Haraway?
The idea that museum space shapes knowledge and experience.
What is episteme (spatial form)?
Postmodernism often uses this technique, where something is presented with humor or distance rather than taken seriously.
What is irony?
This term describes discrimination specifically targeting Black women.
What is misogynoir?
This concept describes how power shapes what knowledge is accepted as true.
What is discourse?