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Curating the future, museums, communities and climate change, edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin and Kirsten Wehner

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Curating the future

bibliography

edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin and Kirsten Wehner

Routledge environmental humanities

museums, communities and climate change

"The museum sector has a moral obligation to use its collections and exhibitions and other events to explore some of the inequalities wrought by global warming. The book tackles the broad global issue of climate change through specific collections and in local places. It reflects the Pacific community at its core, but also embraces many other communities who will experience the adverse effects of climate change sooner or later. The book is rich with practical museum experience and detail, as well as critical, analytical and philosophical about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times"--Provided by publisher

Foreword / Michael Novacek. -- 1. Introduction: Curating connections in a climate changed world / Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin and Kirsten Wehner. -- 2. "Tell Them" / Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner. -- 3. The anthropocene and environment justice / Rob Nixon. -- 4. Cameo: museums connecting / Lumepa Apelu. -- 5. Talking around objects: stories for living with climate change / Jennifer Newell. -- 6. Object in view: Jaki-ed mat, Marshall Islands / Kristina Eonemto 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 / Joshua Drew. --^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 as lenses on climate change / Eleanor Sterling and Erin Betley. -- 14. Object in view: a 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 B. Simmons. -- 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 / Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler. -- 26. Cameo: The vulnerable Volvo / Sverker Sorlin. -- 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 Lidstrom and Anna Aberg. -- 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 Mollers and Helmuth Trischler. -- 32. Dear Matafele Peinem / Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner