Jenkins, Tiffany


Dr Tiffany Jenkins  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Visiting Fellow

Experience keywords:

contested authority; human remains; repatriation; cultural policy; museum; cultural property

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My academic research examines contested authority in the cultural sector and the shifting purpose of the museum, analysing concepts of cultural value, cultural policy, and cultural property issues, in particular: the repatriation of human remains and objects. These interests are underpinned by a study of authority and how today it has to continually justify itself and is constantly questioned.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and CultureLaw

Countries and regions to which research relates:

North America; Britain; Australasia

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

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Publications

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2012

Jenkins, Tiffany (2012) Who are we to decide?: the targeting of professional authority in the contestation over human remains in British museums. Cultural sociology, Online ISSN 1749-9755

2011

Jenkins, Tiffany (2011) Re-envisioning a common, capable public. The curator: the museum journal, 54 (1). ISSN 2151-6952

2010

Jenkins, Tiffany (2010) Contesting human remains in museum collections: the crisis of cultural authority. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415879606

2008

Jenkins, Tiffany (2008) Dead bodies: the changing treatment of human remains in British museum collections and the challenge to the traditional model of the museum. Mortality, 13 (2). pp. 105-118. ISSN 1357-6275

2007

Jenkins, Tiffany (2007) Victims remembered. In: Watson, Sheila, (ed.) Museums and their communities. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 448-451. ISBN 9780415402606

2006

Jenkins, Tiffany (2006) Passion and possession: a museum polemic. Material religion: the journal of objects, art and belief, 2 (3). pp. 353-358. ISSN 1743-2200

2004

Jenkins, Tiffany (2004) Human remains: objects to study or ancestors to bury? Institute of Ideas, London, UK

2003

Jenkins, Tiffany (2003) Dead heads: medical and artistic attitudes towards the dead body. In: Kaplan, J., (ed.) Exhumed. Parabola Trust, London, UK, pp. 14-16.

2002

Jenkins, Tiffany (2002) Management speak. Critical quarterly, 44 (4). pp. 17-20. ISSN 0011-1562

Jenkins, Tiffany, (ed.) (2002) Alternative medicine: should we swallow it? Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK. ISBN 9780340848388

Jenkins, Tiffany, (ed.) (2002) Ethical tourism: who benefits? Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK. ISBN 9780340857342

Jenkins, Tiffany and Lee, Ellie, (eds.) (2002) Teenage sex: what should schools teach children? London, UK, Hodder & Stoughton.

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'Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections' charts the influences at play on the contestation over human remains and examines the construction of this problem from a cultural and sociological perspective.

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Tiffany Jenkins is a sociologist and cultural commentator. Prior to working in academia she was the arts and society director of the think-tank, the Institute of Ideas, and still oversees much of this work.

 

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