Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency

Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approaches to objects and agency, and the incommensurability of western and Indigenous ontologies.

List of contents

Introduction: Museums and transformation; 1 Disappearing soils: Toward a pithier pedagogy; 2 Sinking and melting: Glossing the climate problem; 3 Repurposing the inclusive museum; 4 Museums, climate fiction and the anthropocene; 5 White geology and displays of material power; 6 Coal and fossil capital; 7 Oil utopias and petro-invisibility; 8 Museums inside the earth; 9 Gold on show: The toxic glamour of the yellow rock; After neutrality: The relevant museum

About the author

Janice Baker is an independent curator, writer and scholar based in Western Australia. Her work facilitates creative research projects and programmes that support artists and environmental art history. Her next book is a cultural study of seaweed through the lens of art, museums and climate change.

Summary

Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approaches to objects and agency, and the incommensurability of western and Indigenous ontologies.

Product details

• Authors: Janice Baker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2023
• EAN: 9780367741822
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74182-2
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Cultural Studies, Climate Change, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies