Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency

This book

Draws on Indigenous knowledge, humanities and museological literature, continental philosophy, contemporary art and popular culture to acknowledge the autonomous agency of geological forms, including soils, minerals and fossil fuels.

Demonstrates that this has implications for an expanded idea of an ‘inclusive’ museum and its relationship to entities beyond ‘life’ and living species, the book argues that the ‘inclusion’ paradigm needs to include non-life actors.

By gesturing to a geontological ‘turn’ through developing notions of geo-inclusion, the mineralhuman, and approaches to object agency that connect with Aboriginal ‘heritage’, Baker exposes the ongoing destruction of Country by mining interests in Western Australia and elsewhere.

theorises the potential of an expanded idea of the museum and will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, environmental humanities and geo-humanities, ecological art history and contemporary art.