Ian McShane – författare

The Museum Movement provides the first systematic overview of the ‘museum movement’ of the early twentieth century, which encouraged museums to play a greater role in education and civic uplift.Highlighting the key role played by the Carnegie Corporation in guiding museum development in the late colonial period, this book shows that the movement was strongly influenced by the racial politics of the period and that its focus on local histories and civic engagement sought to boost the historical legitimacy and continued vitality of small towns and their dominant white populations. Demonstrating that the ‘museum movement’ placed new emphasis on the importance of professionalisation, interpretation, and audience engagement, McShane shows how, by the late 1930s, the movement had helped lay the foundations of museology. This book also constructs a genealogy of the ‘new’ museology, the next wave of museum reform that emerged in the 1970s, by reflecting critically on the ‘newness’ of some of its ideas. Indicating that ‘new’ thinking about audience, display media, and the economics of culture has a longer history, this book also provides historical perspectives on current interests in informal and social learning, the formation of museum publics, and institutional convergence.The Museum Movement explores the intersections and crosscurrents of modernism and settler-colonialism and will thus appeal to academics and students with an interest in museum studies, heritage, history, colonial studies, and race.

The Museum Movement provides the first systematic overview of the ‘museum movement’ of the early twentieth century, which encouraged museums to play a greater role in education and civic uplift.Highlighting the key role played by the Carnegie Corporation in guiding museum development in the late colonial period, this book shows that the movement was strongly influenced by the racial politics of the period and that its focus on local histories and civic engagement sought to boost the historical legitimacy and continued vitality of small towns and their dominant white populations. Demonstrating that the ‘museum movement’ placed new emphasis on the importance of professionalisation, interpretation, and audience engagement, McShane shows how, by the late 1930s, the movement had helped lay the foundations of museology. This book also constructs a genealogy of the ‘new’ museology, the next wave of museum reform that emerged in the 1970s, by reflecting critically on the ‘newness’ of some of its ideas. Indicating that ‘new’ thinking about audience, display media, and the economics of culture has a longer history, this book also provides historical perspectives on current interests in informal and social learning, the formation of museum publics, and institutional convergence.The Museum Movement explores the intersections and crosscurrents of modernism and settler-colonialism and will thus appeal to academics and students with an interest in museum studies, heritage, history, colonial studies, and race.

Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban regeneration. Hot Cities offers insights from eminent academics and practitioners, providing both a practical and theoretical outlook on strategy, design and policy development in a climate crisis. Chapters call for urgent responses to the urban heat problem, providing future design projections to illustrate why this is important.Contributing authors include:Cathy Applegate, Xuemei Bai, Christian Barry, David Bowman, David Carlin, Danielle Celermajer, Mark Crosweller, Niki Frantzeskaki, Tony Fry, Isabella Gerometta, Jody Graham, Stephen Healy, Jean Hillier, Simon Kerr, Eric Klinenberg, Jo Lane, Crystal Legacy, Michelle Maloney, Simon Marvin, Darryn McEvoy, Timon McPhearson, Abby Mellick Lopes, Therese Milanovic, Eleni Myrivili, John Nairn, Alan Pears, Sarah Pink, Libby Porter, Stephen Pyne, Lauren Rickards, Kaossara Sani, Wendy Sarkissian, Benedict Sibley, Katie Steele, Will Steffen, Yolande Strengers, Pakamas Thinphanga, Blair Trewin, and Cam Walker.This book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and policy-makers in human geography, urban planning, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, environmental humanities, urban design, education, the creative arts and community development.

Shedding light on the future of urban spaces, this path-breaking book is a significant contribution to contemporary climate change scholarship. It synthesizes interdisciplinary research with practical policy, putting an emphasis on positive environmental and socially just outcomes and urban regeneration. Hot Cities offers insights from eminent academics and practitioners, providing both a practical and theoretical outlook on strategy, design and policy development in a climate crisis. Chapters call for urgent responses to the urban heat problem, providing future design projections to illustrate why this is important.Contributing authors include:Cathy Applegate, Xuemei Bai, Christian Barry, David Bowman, David Carlin, Danielle Celermajer, Mark Crosweller, Niki Frantzeskaki, Tony Fry, Isabella Gerometta, Jody Graham, Stephen Healy, Jean Hillier, Simon Kerr, Eric Klinenberg, Jo Lane, Crystal Legacy, Michelle Maloney, Simon Marvin, Darryn McEvoy, Timon McPhearson, Abby Mellick Lopes, Therese Milanovic, Eleni Myrivili, John Nairn, Alan Pears, Sarah Pink, Libby Porter, Stephen Pyne, Lauren Rickards, Kaossara Sani, Wendy Sarkissian, Benedict Sibley, Katie Steele, Will Steffen, Yolande Strengers, Pakamas Thinphanga, Blair Trewin, and Cam Walker.This book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and policy-makers in human geography, urban planning, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, environmental humanities, urban design, education, the creative arts and community development.

This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development.

This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development.

This open access book brings together research on the planning, design, governance and management of schools as community hubs—places that support the development of better-connected, more highly integrated, and more resilient communities with education at the centre. It explores opportunities and difficulties associated with bringing schools and communities closer together, with a focus on the facilities needed to accommodate shared experiences that generate social capital and deliver reciprocal benefits.This book discusses the expanded roles of schools, and investigates how schools may offer more to their communities—historically, currently and into the future—with respect to the role of the built environment in situating community activities and services.Organised around four sections, it showcases important areas of development in the field via an interdisciplinary approach, which weaves together empirical research withtheoretical insights and practical examples. This book not only highlights the challenges associated with the development of schools as community hubs but offers evidence-based insights into how to overcome such hurdles to develop community-facing schools into the future.