Table of Contents

Introduction: Sharon Macdonald (Sheffield University). Part I: Contexts: Spaces and Times:.

1. Museums and Globalization: Martin Prosler (Tubingen, Germany).

2. How Societies Remember the Past: John Urry (Lancaster University).

Part II: Contests: Differences and Identities:.

3. Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair: Vera Zolberg (New School of Social Research, New York).

4. Into the Heart of Irony: Ethnographic Exhibitions and the Politics of Difference: Henrietta Riegel (York University, Canada).

5. Seeing through Solidity: Feminist Perspectives on Museums: Gaby Porter (Manchester Museum of Science and Industry).

6. Decoding the Visitors' Gaze: Rethinking Museum Visiting: Gordon Fyfe and Max Ross (Keele University).

Part III: Contents: Classifications and Practice: .

7. The Utopics of Social Ordering: Stonehenge as a Museum without Walls: Kevin Hetherington (Keele University).

8. Maintaining Boundaries, or 'Mainstreaming' Black History in a White Museum: Eric Gable (Yale University).

9. A Trojan Horse at the Tate: Theorizing the Museum as Agency and Structure: Gordon Fyfe (Keele University).