Global Repatriation and “Universal” Museums

Museums and restorative justice: heritage, repatriation and cultural education

Moira G. Simpson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia. She has written extensively on the subjects of museums, indigenous cultural politics and repatriation. Her publications include Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era and Museums and Repatriation. Her current research interests relate to the care and protec...

Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions

This paper analyzes the effect of repatriation taxes on dividend payments by the foreign affiliates of American multinational firms. The United States taxes the foreign incomes of American companies, grants credits for any foreign income taxes paid, and defers any taxes due on the unrepatriated earnings for those affiliates that are separately incorporated abroad. This system thereby imposes re...

Understanding Museums - Museums, education and visitor experience

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

A Universal and Global Education Infrastructure

The following is a technical contribution to the cause of worldwide education, presented to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the occasion of a world congress held on the dawn of the 21st Century. The problem of educational infrastructure as the foundation for equity access to educational resources for all the nations and citizens of the world is c...

Global Universal Service and International Settlement Reform