Museum, Field, Colony: collecting, displaying and governing people and things

Authors

  • Fiona Cameron Institute for Culture and Society University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Building EM (Parramatta Campus) Penrith NSW 2751
  • Conal McCarthy Museum & Heritage Studies programme School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies Victoria University of Wellington 42-44 Kelburn Parade Wellington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.313

Abstract

The papers selected for this special issue of Museum and Society have their beginnings in the workshop, ‘Colonial Governmentalities’, held in late October 2012 and hosted by the Institute of Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, followed by the seminar ‘Reassembling the material,’ hosted by the Museum and Heritage Studies programmes at Victoria University of Wellington in early November. The stimulus for these events was the international research collaboration, ‘Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance funded by the Australian Research Council’.

Author Biographies

Fiona Cameron, Institute for Culture and Society University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Building EM (Parramatta Campus) Penrith NSW 2751

Fiona Cameron is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Fiona has researched and published widely on museums and their agency in contemporary societies around ‘hot’ topics of societal importance. She has been a chief investigator on seven Australian Research Council grants on topics ranging from the agencies of the museum in climate change interventions to material culture, collections, documentation and complexity. Recent books include three co-edited collections, Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse (MIT Press 2007) and Hot Topics, Public Culture,
Museums (Cambridge Scholars 2010); Climate Change, Museum Futures (Routledge 2014) and a co-authored monograph, Compositions, Materialities, Dynamics: Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage for a Complex, Entangled World (MIT Press, forthcoming).

Conal McCarthy, Museum & Heritage Studies programme School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies Victoria University of Wellington 42-44 Kelburn Parade Wellington

Conal McCarthy is Associate Professor and Director of the Museum & Heritage Studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Conal has degrees
in English, Art History, Māori language and Museum Studies and has worked in galleries and museums in a variety of professional roles. Among his current research projects is a
comparative international analysis of museums, heritage and indigenous peoples. He has published on museum history, theory and practice, including the books Exhibiting Māori: A
History of Colonial Cultures of Display (2007) and Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice (2011). His next book is an edited collection on contemporary museum practice in a new Wiley Blackwell series, International Handbooks of Museum Studies, which will appear in 2015.

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Published

01.01.2015

How to Cite

Cameron, F., & McCarthy, C. (2015). Museum, Field, Colony: collecting, displaying and governing people and things. Museum & Society, 13(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.313

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Guest Editorial

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