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Reimagining Museums for Climate Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action

This book is not a typical academic edited volume. Nor does it subscribe to the usual dictates of an exhibition catalogue. It does not seek to provide a comprehensive overview of work on climate change and museums or claim to have discovered One Quick Trick to Solve the Climate Emergency. Instead, the book reflects the main characteristics of the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action project: it is collaborative, distributed, conversational, subversive, nomadic and, at times, playful. The arguments it puts forward emerge through dialogue and speculation just as much as they respond to and build on empirical research. In this sense, the book is perhaps best seen as a partial and in many ways...

Cooking Sections
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Cooking Sections

  • Categories: Art

Offsetted widmet sich der Frage nach der Wertschöpfung von Natur. Das Buch des Künstlerduos Cooking Sections enthüllt Formen der Enteignung, die sich durch den Schutz – und nicht nur ihre Zerstörung – der natürlichen Umwelt aktuell verstärkt ereignen. Durch eine Reihe von künstlerischen und architektonischen Interventionen knüpft Offsetted an die weltweiten Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit an und stellt den Neoliberalismus als Retter seiner eigenen ökologischen Widersprüche in Frage. So beleuchtet das Projekt beispielsweise Naturschutzmodelle, die auf »natürlichem Kapital« basieren, und schlägt neue räumliche Strategien zur De-Finanzierung der Umwelt vor. Neben einer Fotodokumentation und künstlerischen Arbeiten von Cooking Sections versammelt das Buch zahlreiche Beiträge interdisziplinär tätiger Kunstschaffenden und Forschenden.

Critical Zones
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Critical Zones

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-13
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Artists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change. This monumental volume, drawn from a 2020 exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media, portrays the disorientation of life in world facing climate change. It traces this disorientation to the disconnection between two different definitions of the land on which modernizing humans live: the sovereign nation from which they derive their rights, and another one, hidden, from which they gain their wealth—the land they live on, and the land they live from. Charting the land they will inhabit, they find not a globe, not the iconic “blue marble,” but a series of critical zones—patchy, heterogenous, discontinu...

Design Studio Vol. 4: Working at the Intersection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Design Studio Vol. 4: Working at the Intersection

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. This volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality. An esteemed group of international voices amplify interactions involving sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and environmental catastrophe, exploring how they inextricably linked. Without acknowledging the interconnectedness of these injustices, we will not find effective ways to halt the deepening crisis. Features: Marcos Cruz, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Antón García-Abril, Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Kerry Holden, Walter Hood, Joyce Hwang, Kabage Karanja, V. Mitch McEwen, Débora Mesa, Timothy Morton, Stella Mutegi, Brenda Parker, Carolyn Steel, McKenzie Wark, Kathryn Yusoff and Joanna Zylinska.

Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-24
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Cultural and natural heritage are central to ‘Europe’ and ‘the European project’. They were bound up in the emergence of nation-states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where they were used to justify differences over which border conflicts were fought. Later, the idea of a ‘common European heritage’ provided a rationale for the development of the European Union. Now, the emergence of ‘new’ populist nationalisms shows how the imagined past continues to play a role in cultural and social governance, while a series of interlinked social and ecological crises are changing the ways that heritage operates, with new discourses and ontologies emerging to reconfigure herita...

Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times

  • Categories: Art

Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times sets a fresh agenda for Heritage Studies by reflecting upon the unprecedented nature of the contemporary moment. In doing so, the volume also calls into question established ideas, ways of working, and understandings of the future. Presenting contributions by leading figures in the field of Heritage Studies, Indigenous scholars, and scholars from across the global north and global south, the volume engages with the most pressing issues of today: coloniality, the climate emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic, structural racism, growing social and economic inequality, and the ongoing struggle for dignity and restitution.Considering the impact of climate chang...

Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Bd. 67/2
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 135

Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Bd. 67/2

Schmücker, Reinhold, Theisohn, Philipp: Noch einmal: zur Einführung. Wiesner, Maria: Gewalt, Mord und Antihelden – Moral im Kino. Ein kritischer Essay Dikovich, Albert: Die Untugend der Kunst . Pragmatistische Reflexionen über den Kitsch anlässlich des gegenwärtigen Krieges Paret, Christoph: Der kalt erwiderte Blick. Oscar Wilde, die Nebensächlichkeit der Kunst und das Unästhetische der Existenz Shusterman, Ronald: The Metaethical Turn: Beyond ›Good‹ and ›Evil‹. Bertrand-Hoettcke, Aude, Kettner, Matthias: Framing people's justice . Normative Aporien des interkulturellen Dialogs über Kunst am Beispiel der documenta fifteen Mersmann, Birgit, Ohls, Hauke: Die Ausstellung als geopolitische Versuchsanordnung. Künstlerischer Wissenstransfer und transmediale Vermittlung in Latours Gedankenausstellung Critical Zones – Horizonte einer neuen Erdpolitik Besprechung

A History of Science in the Netherlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 703

A History of Science in the Netherlands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-03
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In the 400 years of its modern history the Netherlands has produced a distinguished array of eminent mathematicians, scientists and medical researchers including many Nobel-prize winners and other internationally recognised figures, from Stevin, Snel, and Huygens in the 17th century to Lorentz, Kammerlingh Onnes, Buys Ballot, De Vries, de Sitter, and Oort in the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet it has often been noted that the history of science in the Netherlands is underepresented in the international literature. The handbook A History of Science in The Netherlands aims to correct this situation by providing a chronological and thematic survey of the field from the 16th century to the present, essays on selected aspects of science in the Netherlands, and reference biographies of about 65 important Dutch scientists. Written by more than 10 experts from Europe and North America, the handbook is the standard English-language reference work for the field.

Can the World Be Governed?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Can the World Be Governed?

In this book, leading international relations experts and practitioners examine through theory and case study the prospect for successful multilateral management of the global economy and international security. In the theory section contributors tackle the big questions: Why is there an apparent rising tide of calls for reform of current multilateral organizations and institutions? Why are there growing questions over the effectiveness of global governance? Is the reform of current organizations and institutions likely or possible? Case studies include the examination of difficulties facing global development, the challenges facing the IMF and the governance of global finance, the problems of the UN 2005 World Summit and its failed reform, and the WTO and the questions raised by the prolonged Doha Development Round. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

The Law and Practice of the United Nations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

The Law and Practice of the United Nations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-24
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Revised and updated, The Law and Practice of the United Nations provides an analysis of the main legal issues surrounding the United Nations’ practice, including a thorough discussion of Chapter VII of the Charter and its interpretation.