This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that
have been complicit in emerging existential crises. 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. Modern 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. Museum
Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability
reveals how these practices are ill-equipped to deal with the
contemporary world of rapid digital transformations, post-Covid
living, climate change, and its impacts among other societal changes,
and it shows how museums might best meet these challenges by thinking
with and in more-than-human worlds. This book is aimed at museological
scholars and museum professionals, and it will provide them with the
inspiration to conduct research on and curate from a different
ecological reference point to promote a world good enough for all
things to thrive in radical co-existence.
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Curating for Planetary Habitability
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781351814553
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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