Julia Harrison
Trent University
7 Papers
136 Citations
Julia Harrison is an academic researcher from Trent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ideology & Ethnography. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications.
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Ideas of museums in the 1990s
TL;DR: This article reviewed the framework of much of the thinking that has gone on in museums in recent decades and examined the argument put forward by several writers that a much greater critical and socially substantive role can be an exciting direction for museums in the final years of the 20th century.
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Multiple Imaginings of Institutional Identity A Case Study of a Large Psychiatric Research Hospital
TL;DR: The Hanson Institute of Psychiatry, a large psychiatric research hospital in a North American city, was investigated by as discussed by the authors, who found that there was a desire on the part of some senior managers to cultivate a loyalty and a sense of responsibility among staff to a singular institutional identity.
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Thinking About Tourists
TL;DR: The authors found that tourists' appreciation of their travels was embedded in a sensual, aesthetic perception of the experience and that there is an irony in the experiential aesthetic of these touristic travels, as it induced a state of both detachment and engagement.
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Shaping collaboration: Considering institutional culture
TL;DR: In this article, the authors add another factor to these three: the unique culture of the individual museum, and draw on research done on collaborative projects undertaken by the Calgary's Glenbow Museum and the Blackfoot peoples in southern Alberta and Montana, and the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, BC.
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Museums as agencies of neocolonialism in a postmodern world
Julia Harrison
- 01 Feb 1997
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an attempt by a large state museum to engage a plurality of voices and to adopt a new posture of representation in its programs and exhibitions, in the process however, encumbered with its very institutional nature, of which it made little acknowledgement, it continued to silence much of the plurality to which it hoped to give voice.
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