Newell / Robin / Wehner Curating the Future

Museums, Communities and Climate Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-21796-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change.

Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming.

There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newell, Jennifer

Robin, Libby

Wehner, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Michael Novacek

1. Curating Connections in a Climate Changed World Kirsten Wehner, Libby Robin & Jenny Newell

2. Poem: "Tell Them" Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Part 1: Welcoming New Voices: Opening museums

3. Rob Nixon, The Anthropocene and Social Justice Rob Nixon

4. Cameo: Museums Connecting Lumepa Apelu

5. Talking Around Objects: Stories for a Climate Changed world Jennifer Newell

6. Object in view: Jaki-ed mat, Marshall Islands Kristina Stege

7. The Pacific in New York: Managing Objects and Cultural Heritage Partnerships in Times of Global Change Jacklyn Lacey

8. Cameo: Connie Hart’s Basket Tom Griffiths

9. Peoples who Still Live: The Role of Museums in addressing Climate Change in the Pacific Peter Rudiak-Gould

10. Object in view: Taking a Bite Out of Lost Knowledge: Sharks’ Teeth, Extinction, and the Value of Preemptive Collections Josh Drew

Part 2: Reuniting Nature and Culture

11. Towards an Ecological Museology: Responding to the animal-objects of the Australian Institute of Anatomy collection Kirsten Wehner

12. Object in view: Harry Clarke’s high wheeler bicycle Daniel Oakman

13. Food and Water Exhibitions: Lenses on Climate Change Eleanor Sterling and Erin Betley

14. Object in view: The Stump-Jump Plough: Reframing a National Icon George Main

15. Telling Torres Strait History through Turtle Leah Lui-Chivizhe

16. Four Seasons in One Day: Weather, Culture and the Museum Kirstie Ross

17. Object in view: Nelson the Newfoundland’s Dog Collar Martha Sear

18. The Last Snail: Loss, hope and care for the future Thom van Dooren

19. Object in view: Hiding in plain sight: Lessons from the Olinguito Nancy Simmons

Part 3: Focusing on the Future

20. The Reef in Time: The prophecy of Charlie Veron’s living collections Iain McCalman

21. Food Stories for the Future George Main

22. Shaping Garden Collections for Future Climates Sharon Willoughby

23. Object in view: A Past Future for the Cucumber Sharon Willoughby

24. The Art of the Anthropocene William L. Fox

25. Object in view: The Canary Project: Photographs and Fossils Ed Morris and Susannah Sayler

Part 4: Representing Change and Uncertainty

26. Cameo: The Vulnerable Volvo Sverker Sörlin

27. Museum Awakenings: Responses to Environmental Change at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, 1965–2005 Ewa Bergdahl and Anders Houltz

28. Rising Seas: Facts, Fictions and Aquaria Susanna Lidström and Anna Åberg

29. Object in view: The Model of Flooded New York Edmund Mathez

30. When the Ice Breaks: The Arctic in the Media Miyase Christensen and Nina Wormbs

31. Displaying the Anthropocene in and beyond Museums Libby Robin, Dag Avango, Luke Keogh, Nina Möllers and Helmuth Trischler

32. Poem: Dear Matafele Peinem Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Newell is the curator of Pacific Ethnography at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. She teaches Museum Anthropology at Columbia University, and convenes the Museums and Climate Change Network. She has partnerships with museums in the Pacific, including in Samoa and Fiji, and is a former curator at the British Museum.

Libby Robin works across the university and museum sectors in Australia, Sweden and Germany. She is professor of Environment and Society at the Australian National University, research affiliate at the National Museum of Australia, affiliated professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and Board member Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich.

Kirsten Wehner is Head Curator of the People and the Environment program at the National Museum of Australia. She is a member of the Humanities for the Environment Australia-Pacific Observatory and a professional associate of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra, Australia.