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erns, therefore any particular museums display can be inadequate and in need of supplementation. However, the space of representation in the public museum are hijacked by all kinds of particular social ideologies: it is sexist in the gendered patterns of its exclusions, racist in its assignation of the aboriginal populations to the lowest pattern of human evolution, and bourgeois in the respect articulated to bourgeois rhetoric of social progress. In the nineteenth-century museum the cultures of subordinate classes were—and largely still are-a simple absence, excluded not only as a matter of definition (the working classes were not regarded as having a culture worthy of preservation) but also as a matter of deliberate policy (of ‘improving’ the people by exposing them to the beneficial influence of middle-class culture). As Bennett mentioned, a visit to institutions like the Victoria and Albert is, accordingly, to experience and witness the power of the ruling culture (Bennett 1988b: 73).

 

Bennett has concerned with the political polemic of the museum as the public museum has played a double role. ‘On the one hand, the democratic rhetoric of museum as vehicles for popular education; on the other hand, their actual functioning as instruments for the reform of public manners (Bennett 1995a: 90).’ It represents an ideal and ordered world unfolds before, emanating from a controlling position of knowledge and vision, fashioning a new space of representation achieved order and rationality. As a culture technique, the museum has meant and functioned as a powerful means for differentiating population. Various technologies are used for regulating the behavior associated with popular assemblies. Man as Foucault puts it, ‘appears in his ambiguous position as an object of knowledge and a subject that knows (M. Foucault 2002), he suggests a discovery of the ‘politics of truth’ of the museum, which generates the concern of Bennett’s idea on museum politics.

 

2.2 Museum and Governance

 

2.2.1 Governmentality-A Foucaultian Approach

 

This part is a main focus of the thesis. From the perspective of governmentality, it concerns the relations between museum and governance to recognize the operation of museum mechanism and politics. First, it gives a detail analysis on the concept of governmentality - a Foucaultian approach taken by Bennett, and then it applies the theory into the governance of museum to consider it from the three aspects: ordering objects, mobilizing knowledge, and civilizing people.

 

2.2.1.1 Governmentality

 

Governmentality is a concept developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The term is thought to be made by the linking of governing (‘gouverner’) and modes of thought (‘mentalité’). It is a concept instigated by M. Foucault (P. Miller, C. Gordon, ) to encompass本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。