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We invite proposals – by writers, scholars, museum professionals, cultural activists and others – for book ideas that:

Extend current debates over a particular type of museum, collection, cultural activity, event, product or phenomenon, ethical conundrum, subcultural critique or hacker process, curatorial activism, protest or campaign culture, cultural conflict, or political context, theory or history.
Address an urgent disciplinary, methodological, or social problem or conflict involving museums, heritage (place, object-based and intangible, including music), collections, or related subject.
Model ways of extending or challenging the museological canon to become ever more agile, responsive, and accountable to the frequently stated claims of social justice and community engagement.
Provide innovative approaches toward modelling intellectual critique; these could potentially include graphic novels, co-written and multi-person dialogue pieces, or other alternative formats.

We particularly welcome proposals that investigate how the discourses and experiences of crisis and dissent in cultural, political, and everyday life influence or affect the way we understand museums, heritage, and other forms of cultural phenomena and activism; and invite manuscripts that ask how these themes and others – including identity and collective rights and actions over issues including race, class, disability, gender, and sexuality; challenges to citizenship laws and norms and normative approaches to understanding power, ideology and nationalism – engage with anthropology museums, human rights museums, labour history or union museums, presidential library museums, political history collections, activist art events or interventions, protest art movement and activist interventions (historical or contemporary), ecomuseums, local and community based museums, science-based collections, formations of radical history and archiving, etc., etc.

As short books that aim to present ways of grappling with big challenges or modelling disciplinary or methodological disruption, the writing and commitment to a crisp and clear line of arguing is of the uppermost importance.