Tiffany Jenkins

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Tiffany Jenkins in 2011

Tiffany Jenkins is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmental LM network. She has written for Living Marxism, was a director of the arts and society programme at the Institute of Ideas and has written for Spiked.

Career

"Tiffany Jenkins is an author, academic, broadcaster and columnist who writes a weekly column on social and cultural issues in the Scotsman. Her writing credits include BBC Culture, the Independent, the Art Newspaper, the Guardian and Spectator. She was the presenter of the Radio 4 programme ‘Beauty and the Brain’, which explored what brain science can tell us about art. She was previously the director of the Arts and Society Programme at the Institute of Ideas and has been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, Department of Law. She divides her time between London and Edinburgh."

Jenkins was a contributor to the online magazine Spiked between 2001 and 2014. She is a Committee Member of the Battle of Ideas and was a speaker at the Battle of Ideas debating events in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Jenkins is Secretary of MacWhirter Associates; journalist Iain MacWhirter is Director of the company.

Education

Jenkins has a BA in art history from Sussex University and a PhD in sociology which examined 'the construction of the problem of human remains in British museum collections with a weak social constructionist method'.

Publications

Books, Book Chapters & Journals

• Institute of Ideas and Tiffany Jenkins (ed) (2002), Alternative Medicine: Should We Swallow It? (Debating Matters), Hodder & Stoughton.
• Institute of Ideas and Tiffany Jenkins (2002), Ethical Tourism: Who Benefits? (Debating Matters), Hodder & Stoughton.
• Ellie Lee and Tiffany Jenkins (2002), Teenage Sex: What Should Schools Teach Children? (Debating Matters) by Institute of Ideas, Hodder & Stoughton.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2002), Management Speak Critical Quarterly (44) 4: 17-20.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2003), 'Dead Heads: medical and artistic attitudes towards the dead body', in: Kaplan, J. ed. Exhumed at the Museum of Garden History. London: Parabola Press. pp.14-16.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2004), 'Human Remains: objects to study or ancestors to bury?', Occasional Paper. London: Institute of Ideas.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2006), 'The Question of Sacred Items and Their Censure in Museums'. Nuances: Newsletter of the Association for the Respect for the Integrity of Artistic Heritage (36-37) (Trans. Christine Vermont):17-20.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2006), 'Passion and Possession: a museum polemic'. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 2 (3) pp. 353-358.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2007), 'Victims Remembered'. In: Watson, S. ed. Museums and their Communities. London: Routledge, pp. 448-451.
• Tiffany Jenkins (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.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2010), Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority (Routledge Research in Museum Studies).
• Tiffany Jenkins (2011), 'Just Say No: You Cannot Be Too Careful In Embracing Disposal' in Davies, P.(ed) Museums and the Disposals Debate. MuseumsEtc
• Tiffany Jenkins (2011), 'Re-envisioning a Common, Capable Public', Curator: The Museum Journal. Vol: 52 No.1 January.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2012), 'Old Skeletons, Pagans and Museums: Why human remains are a bone of contention' Book chapter in: Best, J. and Harris, S. New Images, New Issues: Constructing social problems in a new century. Lynne Reinner Publishers.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2012), 'Who are we to decide -The targeting of professional authority in the contestation over human remains in British museums', Journal of Cultural Sociology 6 (3).
• Tiffany Jenkins (2012), 'Inverting the Nation at the British Museum', Conference paper at ‘Great Narratives of Past Traditions and Revisions in National Museums. Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen', Paris 28 June – 1 July & 25–26 November 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins (ed) (2013), Special Issue on Cultural Interventions Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (7), 2. Taylor Francis.
• Tiffany Jenkins (ed) (2015), Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building, Routledge.
• Tiffany Jenkins (2016 estimated), Keeping Their Marbles, Oxford University Press.

Popular press, magazines articles and web publications

• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Where communication is king', Spiked, 5 April 2001.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'How to win the election in (Saatchi) style', Spiked, 19 April 2001.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'spiked-proposals: Museums and galleries', Spiked, 7 June 2001.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'The short-sightedness of spectacle', Spiked, 11 July 2001.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Why not a Kandinsky, a Mondrian and a motorcycle show?', Spiked, 6 August 2002.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Vote No to baby ballots', Spiked, 13 February 2003.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Burying the evidence', Spiked, 24 November 2003.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Obelisks for all', Spiked, 22 April 2005.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Memorial museums: cabinets of misery', Spiked, 19 May 2005.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Dying to be on the box', Spiked, 16 January 2006.
• Tiffany Jenkins, ‘Reparations are a substitute for progressive politics’, Spiked, 7 June 2006.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'I Am Nobody’s Lunch', Spiked, 30 August 2006.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'A snuff movie for the arthouse crowd', Spiked, 27 February 2007.
• Tiffany Jenkins, The ‘disorganised apartheid’ of cultural diversity, Spiked, 17 May 2007.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Give art a sporting chance', Spiked, 2 October 2007.
• Tiffany Jenkins, Why museums should dump the ‘Disposal Toolkit’, Spiked, 27 February 2008.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'British museums: the Druids are at the gates', Spiked, 3 February 2009.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Modern society’s jaded view of life', Spiked, 2 March 2009.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'How to preserve the future of museums', Spiked, 29 May 2009.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Museums are not playgrounds', Spiked, 14 July 2009.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Artists, resist this propagandist agenda', Spiked, 27 October 2009.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Archaeology on the front line', Spiked, 13 April 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Arts funding has never been a pretty picture', Spiked, 29 June 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Stop this asset-stripping in the art world', Spiked, 22 July 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Donrsquot put a price on our national treasures', The Independent, 25 July 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, Mourning in America', The Spectator, 28 August 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Art or abuse?: A lament for lost innocence', The Independent, 14 September 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Are we invading the Pharaohs’ privacy?', Spiked, 28 September 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Museum professionals: Hands off our mummies!', Spiked, 29 December 2010.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Peddling ancient prejudices about Egypt', Spiked, 8 February 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Turning museums into cultural ghettos', Spiked, 22 June 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Viewpoint – Valuing culture', The Spectator, 25 June 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Culture: it’s not the economy, stupid!', Spiked, 5 July 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'How not to organise a museum', Spiked, 17 August 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Close the doors on The Public', Spiked, 17 November 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Political theatre's final curtain', The Independent, 28 December 2011.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'A Scottish license to kill culture', Spiked, 29 March 2012.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Museum insults intelligence', The Scotsman, 2 August 2012.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Let’s welcome Israeli dancers to Scotland', Spiked, 3 September 2012.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Why ‘social’ networking is driving us further apart', The Scotsman, 19 October 2012.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'The good, the bad and the non-judgmental', The Scotsman, 26 October 2012.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Art and politics don’t mix', The Scotsman, 13 November 2012.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'How to judge art: a beginner’s guide', Spiked, 4 February 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Byre drama has consequences for all', The Scotsman, 5 February 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Don’t count on big data for answers', The Scotsman, 12 February 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Human creativity is not frozen in time', Spiked, 26 February 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Free museums - a fine example to set the world', The Scotsman, 9 March 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'A perverted view of art', Spiked, 10 April 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Show respect for art and walk on by', The Scotsman, 11 June 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Art is not for healing the sick', The Scotsman, 27 August 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Is there too much rape on stage and TV?', The Independent, 28 August 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Literature is not for you', The Scotsman, 14 October 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, ‘Racist’ murals won't warp children's minds, Spiked, 20 November 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Kelpies will encourage public art', The Scotsman, 2 December 2013.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Art is more than brain deep, The Scotsman, 20 January 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'It’s the best time ever for women', The Scotsman, 7 February 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Culture cannot replace foreign policy', The Scotsman, 28 March 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Trigger warnings: a gun to the head of literature', Spiked, 22 May 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Israel-bashing comes to the Fringe', Spiked, 23 July 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Exhibit B: a guilty pleasure', Spiked, 2 September 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Stop children taking over our museums and galleries', Ideas tap, 26 September 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Can culture save cities?', BBC Culture, 21 October 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'The creative power of anxiety', BBC Culture, 21 October 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Why I’ve binned my feminist card', The Scotsman, 31 October 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Are We Entering a New Age of Artistic Censorship in Europe?', New Republic, 10 December 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'The British Museum has lost its marbles', Spiked, 12 December 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Why shouldn’t the Tate take oil money?', Spiked, 29 December 2014.
• Tiffany Jenkins & Sarah Crompton, 'Is any painting really worth $179m?', The Guardian, 16 May 2015.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Art knows no boundaries, only influences', The Scotsman, 7 August 2015.
• Tiffany Jenkins, 'Privacy at heart of British values', The Scotsman, 18 September 2015.

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