Museum Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability [Paperback]

This book critically engages with and extends international approaches to progressing real-world and scholarly change within the museum sector by undertaking a series of ecologizing experiments to rework the possible relations between things and people using a series of museum, collection, theoretical and exhibition case studies.

'There is now no doubt regarding the epochal, world-shaping significance of the curatorial practices of late eighteenth and nineteenth century museums. With a matching boldness of vision, Fiona Cameron now calls on museums to play a world-saving role by curating for planet habitability. Better still, in identifying the intellectual and institutional challenges this entails, she also shows how these might best be met. A timely manifesto for the contribution museums might make to addressing the crises produced by our relations to the more-than-human worlds that press upon us with increasing force.'

Tony Bennett, Emeritus Professor, Social and Cultural Theory, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia

'This book offers a timely posthumanist provocation for students of, and practitioners in, museums. A fierce critique of humanist museum practices and theories, the book challenges us to take account of emerging practices in museums in the 21^st century. Neither what museums are nor what they are becoming remain the same after its reading. With a deep commitment to more-than-human worlds, the book offers theoretical grounding for museum activism in the face of climate and planetary crisis. This book is a testament to Fiona Camerons longstanding engagement with difficult topics in museums and provide researchers, practitioners, and students alike with new tools for analyses and action.'  

Brita Brenna,lu