Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: Museums, Protest, and Cities 1
5. Of Directors, Museums, and National Identity 31
6. Context
7. Protest at the Threshold: A Short History of Contentious Politics at Canadian Museums, 1900–96 39
8. The UBC Museum of Anthropology as Model 71
9. Crossing the Threshold: Counter-Histories, Museum Exteriors, Interiors, and Archives 76
10. “She walked in and removed her work from the wall”: Artists against Reed Paper at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1976 103
11. Case Studies
12. Reactionary Protest: The Warrior Nation and the Canadian War Museum 111
13. The Postponement of The Lands within Me: Expressions by Canadian Artists of Arab Origin, 2001 142
14. “It takes a lot of wrongs to make a museum of rights”: Indigenous Resistance and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 145
15. Wendy Coburn: Anatomy of a Protest 178
16. When the Land Comes First: Oil, Museums, and (Missing) Protest 182
17. Reversing the Flow: Yes Men Tackle the Canadian Government 219
18. “Intellectual Properties”: Real Estate, Occupy Vancouver, and the Vancouver Art Gallery 223
19. Stan Douglas and the Woodward’s Redevelopment 261
20. Conclusion 267
21. Figures 273
22. Notes 277
23. Bibliography 339
24. Index 389