Books by Iain Chambers

This book examines how we can conceive of a ''postcolonial museum'' in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures. Focusing on the transformation of museums as cultural spaces, rather than physical places, is to propose a living archive formed through creation, participation, production and innovation. The aim is to propose a critical assessment of the museum in the light of those transcultural and global migratory movements that challenge the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. This involves a search for new strategies and critical approaches in the fields of museum and heritage studies which will renew and extend understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable re-evaluation of the concept of ''modernity'' in a so-called globalised and multicultural world.

Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south.

Transformation of museums from physical places to cultural spaces provides the opportunity to re-examine and reassess histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures previously repressed by the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. Developing the 'postcolonial' museum in an age of mass migrations.

In a series of interlinked essays encompassing music (baroque and rock), architecture, urban planning and literature, Iain Chambers weaves together a critique of Western humanism, exploring issues of colonization and migration, language and identity.

The author explores the impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the "realistic" eye of social commentary to the "scientific" approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and "World Music".

Brings together renowned and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our global future.

Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.