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ISBN 10: 041584391X
ISBN 13: 9780415843911
Author: Fiona Cameron, Brett Neilson

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.

Climate Change and Museum Futures 1st Table of contents:

1 Why we Should Disagree about Climate Change
Quantifying Consensus
Climate Change is Political
The Role of Museums
Safe Spaces for Dangerous Ideas
References
2 Ecologizing Experimentations A Method and Manifesto for Composing a Post-humanist Museum
Rethinking the Modern Form of the Museum
Cartesian Rationalities and Dualistic Principles
The Museum and Cartesian Influences
The Cartesian Problematic
New Knowledge Practices and the Relational Paradigm
Recent Developments in Museum Scholarship
Framing a New Ethno-Theoretical Method for Conducting “Ecologizing Experimentations”
Conclusions
References
3 Prospects for a Common World Museums, Climate Change, Cosmopolitics
Two Museum Manifestos
Global Risk and Cosmopolitanization
Banal Cosmopolitanism and the Empirics of the Museum Visitor
Multinaturalism and the Cosmopolitical
Notes
References
4 We Are on Nature’s Side? Experimental Work in Rewriting Narratives of Climate Change for Museum Exhibitions
Introduction
The Ecological Crisis and the Problem with Nature
Atmosphere: A Modernizing Project
The Authority of Modern Science
Impacts and Solutions: the World of Culture/Society and the World of Nature
Bio-Political Compliance and Ecological Modernization: a Vision for the Future of Life on Earth
The Myth of Stabilization as a Horizon
The Demon Carbon
Rewriting Narratives of Climate Change
Reworking Big Nature and Extending the Range of Governing Coordinates
New Social Collectives for a More-Than-Human World
Concluding Comments
References
5 Pushing Boundaries Curating the Anthropocene at the Deutsches Museum, Munich
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Looking Down: the Turn to the Geologic
Exhibiting the Environment, 1992 and 2002
Anthropocene: the Exhibition
References
6 Futuring Global Change in Science Museums and Centers A Role for Anticipatory Practices and Imaginative Acts
Communicating Climate Change
Imagining Global Change Futures
Developing Anticipatory Practices and Socio-Ecological Imaginaries in Museums and Science Centers
Conclusions
References
7 Tools for Alternative Temporalities
Introduction
Possibilities
What Is Futures Studies?
Contested Temporality
Museums and Narratives of Time
Museums Using Futures Studies
Communicating the Future
Encounter
Workshop Outline
Crafting a Future
Scenarios
Scenarios in Our Workshop
Deepening the Future
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
CLA in Our Workshop
Four Quadrants
Four Quadrants in Our Workshop
Exhibiting the Future
Did it Work?
Transformations
Divergent Exhibitions of Multiple Futures
Conclusion
Notes
References
Programming Interlude I Curating Fire
Notes
Reference
Programming Interlude II Pacific Museums and Climate Change Sharing Our Stories through Regional Workshops and Exhibitions
Note
Reference
8 Beyond Confrontation The Trialogue Strategy for Mediating Climate Change
Communication Models: From Silver Bullets to Solar Systems
Communicating Science
From Confrontation to Trialogue
Trialogic Research on Museums and Climate Change
Trialogues and Museum Programming
Conclusion
References
Programming Interlude III Visualizing Climate Change Beyond Technological Enchantment and Critical Deconstruction
Notes
References
9 Portraying the Political Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Their Engagement with Climate Change Politics
Why an Artistic Response to Climate Change?
Art Historical Precedents: Art and Ecology
An Introduction to the Contemporary Art Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Art: Earth: Art of a Changing World
Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol: C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture
The Art Museum and the Exhibitions’ Relationship to Art World Norms
Examples of the Political: Alberta Tar Sands
Conclusion
References
10 Inside and Outside the Tent Climate Change Politics at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
A Failure of the Global Democratic System
Outside the Tent
Rethink Politics
Conclusion
References
11 What Color Is Citizenship?
Green
Citizenship
Museums
The Social License to Operate
Conclusion
Note
References
12 Putting a Human Face on Climate Change
Conferring Invisibility: Climate Change and International Refugee Conventions
The Art of Making Visible: Climate Refugees and the Documentary Turn
Migration as Enclosure
Conclusion
References
13 Museum Affect Crocheted Coral, Children’s Stories and Possibilities in Queer Time
Hooking into the Future
Aesthetic Figures and the Future
Figuring Imaginative Futures
Notes
References
Programming Interlude IV Under the IceCap Sonic Objects and “BioLogging”
Some Background
Anything in the Universe is a Possible Notation for Music3
There Are Three Kinds of Lies: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics5
Notes
Programming Interlude V Adaptation
Notes
References
Programming Interlude VI How the Open Web Performs Socio-environmental Crisis
14 Conclusion: Climate Change Engagement A Manifesto for Museums and Science Centers1
Introduction
Nine Principles For Museums and Science Centers As Agents To Promote Understanding and Action on Climate Change
Notes
References

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