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Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and
political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature.
Climate change is a global force, with global impacts. Viable
solutions on what to do must involve dialogues and decision-making
with many agencies, stakeholder groups and communities crossing all
sectors and scales. Current policy approaches are inadequate and
finding a consensus on how to reduce levels of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere through international protocols has proven
difficult. Gaps between science and society limit government and
industry capacity to engage with communities to broker innovative
solutions to climate change. Drawing on leading-edge research and
creative programming initiatives, this collection details the
important roles and agencies that cultural institutions (in
particular, natural history and science museums and science
centres) can play within these gaps as resources, catalysts and
change agents in climate change debates and decision-making
processes; as unique public and trans-national spaces where diverse
stakeholders, government and communities can meet; where knowledge
can be mediated, competing discourses and agendas tabled and
debated; and where both individual and collective action might be
activated.
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Collecting, Ordering, Governing - Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government (Hardcover)
Tony Bennett, Fiona Cameron, Nelia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, …
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The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the
relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting
and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century
in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States.
With case studies ranging from the Musee de l'Homme's 1930s
fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz
Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the
authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of
multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and
postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering,
Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of
anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous
studies as well as museum and heritage professionals.
Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and
political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature.
Climate change is a global force, with global impacts. Viable
solutions on what to do must involve dialogues and decision-making
with many agencies, stakeholder groups and communities crossing all
sectors and scales. Current policy approaches are inadequate and
finding a consensus on how to reduce levels of greenhouse gases in
the atmosphere through international protocols has proven
difficult. Gaps between science and society limit government and
industry capacity to engage with communities to broker innovative
solutions to climate change. Drawing on leading-edge research and
creative programming initiatives, this collection details the
important roles and agencies that cultural institutions (in
particular, natural history and science museums and science
centres) can play within these gaps as resources, catalysts and
change agents in climate change debates and decision-making
processes; as unique public and trans-national spaces where diverse
stakeholders, government and communities can meet; where knowledge
can be mediated, competing discourses and agendas tabled and
debated; and where both individual and collective action might be
activated.
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the
relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting
and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century
in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States.
With case studies ranging from the Musee de l'Homme's 1930s
fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz
Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the
authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of
multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and
postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering,
Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of
anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous
studies as well as museum and heritage professionals.
Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums engages the highly problematic
and increasingly important issue of museums, science centres, their
roles in contemporary societies, their engagement with hot topics
and their part in wider conversations in a networked public
culture. Hot topics such as homosexuality, sexual, and racial
violence, massacres, drugs, terrorism, GMO foods, H1M1 (swine flu)
and climate change are now all part of museological culture. The
authors in this collection situate cultural institutions in an
increasingly interconnected, complex, globalising and uncertain
world and engage the why and how institutions might form part of,
activate conversations and action through discussions that theorise
institutions in new ways to the very practical means in which
institutions might engage their constituencies.
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