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It confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions, methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically refiguring the epistemological foundations of curatorial, museological thinking, and practice for a habitable planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern curatorial and museological practices are dominated by modern humanism in which capital growth, social, technological advancement, hubris, extraction, speciest logics, and colonial domination predominate, often without reflection. While history, science, and technology museums and their engagement with non-human worlds have always been ecological as an empirical reality, the human-centred frameworks and forms of human agency that institutions deploy tend to be non-cognizant of this reality. \u003ci\u003eMuseum Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how these practices are ill-equip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There is now no doubt regarding the epochal, world-shaping significance of the curatorial practices of late eighteenth and nineteenth century museums. With a matching boldness of vision, Fiona Cameron now calls on museums to play a world-saving role by “curating for planet habitability.” Better still, in identifying the intellectual and institutional challenges this entails, she also shows how these might best be met. A timely manifesto for the contribution museums might make to addressing the crises produced by our relations to the more-than-human worlds that press upon us with increasing force.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTony Bennett,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmeritus Professor, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial and Cultural Theory, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book offers a timely posthumanist provocation for students of, and practitioners in, museums. A fierce critique of humanist museum practices and theories, the book challenges us to take account of emerging practices in museums in the 21st century. Neither what museums are nor what they are becoming remain the same after its reading. With a deep commitment to more-than-human worlds, the book offers theoretical grounding for museum activism in the face of climate and planetary crisis. This book is a testament to Fiona Cameron’s longstanding engagement with difficult topics in museums and provide researchers, practitioners, and students alike with new tools for analyses and action.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrita Brenna,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Professor of Museology, University of Oslo, Norway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Museum Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply felt plea and argument for the need to get beyond our human centered approaches for dealing with ecological crisis. Museums, Cameron argues, are institutions that were central to the humanist project that produced the current ecological crisis. They are therefore also central to undoing that project. Doing so involves a radical rethinking of the central categories of thought that underpin modern society. In doing so, this book opens an alternative future by showing us what we need to overcome and how to go about it. Using the concept of viral contagion as both idea and reality, Cameron opens the possibility that we might be able to move beyond our humanist centered perspectives and productively deal with current threats to planetary wellbeing. This book is a magnificent tour de force in how museums might become part of a viral contagion that works to undo our current understandings of our place on this planet.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Witcomb,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlfred Deakin Professor, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There is now no doubt regarding the epochal, world-shaping significance of the curatorial practices of late eighteenth and nineteenth century museums. With a matching boldness of vision, Fiona Cameron now calls on museums to play a world-saving role by 'curating for planet habitability.' Better still, in identifying the intellectual and institutional challenges this entails, she also shows how these might best be met. A timely manifesto for the contribution museums might make to addressing the crises produced by our relations to the more-than-human worlds that press upon us with increasing force.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTony Bennett,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmeritus Professor, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial and Cultural Theory, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book offers a timely posthumanist provocation for students of, and practitioners in, museums. A fierce critique of humanist museum practices and theories, the book challenges us to take account of emerging practices in museums in the 21st century. Neither what museums are nor what they are becoming remain the same after its reading. With a deep commitment to more-than-human worlds, the book offers theoretical grounding for museum activism in the face of climate and planetary crisis. This book is a testament to Fiona Cameron’s longstanding engagement with difficult topics in museums and provides researchers, practitioners, and students alike with new tools for analyses and action.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrita Brenna,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Professor of Museology, University of Oslo, Norway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Museum Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply felt plea and argument for the need to get beyond our human centered approaches for dealing with ecological crisis. Museums, Cameron argues, are institutions that were central to the humanist project that produced the current ecological crisis. They are therefore also central to undoing that project. Doing so involves a radical rethinking of the central categories of thought that underpin modern society. In doing so, this book opens an alternative future by showing us what we need to overcome and how to go about it. Using the concept of viral contagion as both idea and reality, Cameron opens the possibility that we might be able to move beyond our humanist centered perspectives and productively deal with current threats to planetary wellbeing. This book is a magnificent tour de force in how museums might become part of a viral contagion that works to undo our current understandings of our place on this planet.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Witcomb,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlfred Deakin Professor, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Curating for planetary habitability 2. Technospheric heritage: Curating more-than-digital heritages in and for planetary durations 3. Collections and eco-curating human-non-human climates 4. Museums, climate policy frameworks, and the problem of humanist-driven solutions 5. Communitarian design: Eco-curating climate change in attunement 6. Viral museologies: Curating human-species-viral worlds in sympoiesis 7. Curating sustaining practices in and for more-than-human worlds 8. Conclusion: More-than-human museologies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733709467991,"sku":"9780367196844","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367196844.jpg?v=1720001336"},{"product_id":"what-is-public-history-globally-9781350033290","title":"What Is Public History Globally","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence.This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. \u003ci\u003eWhat is Public History Globally? \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an in-depth examina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will appeal to those engaging with practical history. Each chapter explores Public History whilst engaging with current critical stances. International writers, using academic contexts, clearly illustrate important differences between nations and localities, developing new aspects of Public History. * Hilda Kean, Former Director of Public History, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThe interrogative title poses an important question.  It is answered in wonderfully diverse essays:  eleven map the terrain of public history in distinct national contexts; nine examine particular methods and approaches, many  across contexts; and four focus on specific sites with striking comparative or trans-national implications.  This triangulation complements the editors’ intriguing and suggestive subtitle—‘working with the past in the present”:   the collection as a whole is considerably more than the sum of the individually impressive parts. * Michael Frisch, Senior Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor in History, University of Buffalo, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements  Introduction The Public Turn: History Today, \u003ci\u003ePaul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection 1: Background, Definitions and Issues\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Public History in Australia: History in Place, \u003ci\u003eLisa Murray and Mark Dunn\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Public History in Britain: Repossessing the Past, \u003ci\u003eMark Donnelly\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Public History in Canada: Service or Public Service?, \u003ci\u003eMike Dove and Michelle Hamilton\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Public History in China: Past Making in the Present, \u003ci\u003eLi Na\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Public History in Germany: Opening New Spaces, \u003ci\u003eThorsten Logge and Nico Nolden\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Public History in India: Towards a People’s Past, \u003ci\u003eIndira Chowdhury and Srijan Mandal\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Public History in Indonesia: The Old Disorder?, \u003ci\u003ePaul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Public History in New Zealand: From Treaty to Te Papa, \u003ci\u003eAlex Trapeznik\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Public History in Scandinavia: Uses of the Past, \u003ci\u003eAnne Brædder\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Public History in South Africa: A Tool for Recovery, \u003ci\u003eJulie Wells\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Public History in the USA: Institutionalizing Old Practices, \u003ci\u003eThomas Cauvin\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection 2: Approaches and Methods\u003c\/b\u003e 12. First Encounters: Approaching the Public Past, \u003ci\u003eMeg Foster\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Affective Afterlives: Public History, Archaeology and the Material Turn, \u003ci\u003eDenis Byrne\u003c\/i\u003e 14. The Archaeological Archive: Material Traces and Recovered Histories, \u003ci\u003eTracy Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Archives and Public History: A Developing Partnership, \u003ci\u003eJeannette Bastian and Stephanie Krauss\u003c\/i\u003e 16. ‘Speak, Memory’: Current Issues in Oral and Public History, \u003ci\u003ePaula Hamilton\u003c\/i\u003e 17. Who do you Think You Are?:\u003ci\u003e The Family in Public History, \u003c\/i\u003eAnna Green 18. Love Thy Neighbour: Local and Community history, \u003ci\u003eTanya Evans\u003c\/i\u003e 19. Grass-Roots Activism, Heritage and Cultural Landscape: A Community Case Study, \u003ci\u003eKeir Reeves and Jacqueline Z. Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e 20. Past Continuous: Digital public history and social media, \u003ci\u003eSerge Noiret\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection 3: Sites of Public History\u003c\/b\u003e 21. Remembering Dark Pasts and Horrific Places: Sites of Conscience, \u003ci\u003ePaul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e 22. #Fake History: The State of Heritage Interpretation, \u003ci\u003eSue Hodges\u003c\/i\u003e 23. ‘The air still rings with the excitement of Spanish life’: Ybor City and the Cuban Cigar, \u003ci\u003eChristopher J. Castañeda\u003c\/i\u003e 24. Forgetting and Remembering in Bhopal: Architects as Agents of Memory, \u003ci\u003eAmritha Ballal and Moulshri Joshi\u003c\/i\u003e  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738581741911,"sku":"9781350033290","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350033290.jpg?v=1720049543"},{"product_id":"teaching-and-learning-the-archaeology-of-the-contemporary-era-9781350335622","title":"Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the study of the modern world. 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In this, she argues, they can learn from the example both of anthropological museums (such as the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne), which are engaged in debates about the colonial histories of their collections, about trauma and repair, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La Colonie, Paris, ANO, Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Accra or Savvy Contemporary, Berlin), which have the flexibility, based on informal infrastructures, to initiate different kinds of conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e For the first time, this book identifies the influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of decentring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword; Introduction: Why Decentre Museums, and Why Now?; 1 The Colonial Dilemma of the Modern Museum; 2 Central Theoretical Concepts: From Decolonising to Decentring; 3 Repairing the Anthropological Museum; 4 Decolonial Sensibilities and Decentring Practices of Small-Scale Art Organisations; 5 The Contemporary Art Museum: Between the Anthropological Museum and Small Art Spaces; Epilogue: Decentred Museums as Infrastructures of People; Further Reading; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868737974615,"sku":"9781848225503","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"the-rise-and-rise-of-the-private-art-museum-9781848223844","title":"The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe private collector’s museum has become a phenomenon of the 21st century. 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The preface is detailed;  there are eight chapters each dealing with an individual 'Cultural Treasure',  colour plates, sources, additional reading and an index. Perhaps there might be a future book on other treasures that have been stolen, smuggled and sold? * ImagineMag!: A South African Arts \u0026amp; Culture Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e[Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures is] an interesting and well-written book which archive professionals in the UK and Ireland should consider reading. * Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association *\u003cbr\u003eWritten like a true detective novel, Nancy Moses takes the reader on an informative trek though the high-stakes world of art crime and trafficking. She profiles the cases and actors who labor to profit from the illicit cultural property market and the detectives and agents that combat them. -- Robert K. 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