Associate Professor Fiona R Cameron
Associate Professor,
Institute for Culture and Society
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Massey University, NZ
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Institute for Culture and Society
Contact
| Email: | F.Cameron@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 9677 |
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| Location: | EM.G.17 Parramatta |
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Publications
Books
- Cameron, F. (2024), 'Museum Practices and the Posthumanities: Curating for Planetary Habitability', : Routledge 9780415792011.
- Axelsson, B., Cameron, F., Hauptman, K. and Pietrobruno, S. (2022), 'Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online: Vikings in the Digital Age', : Palgrave Macmillan 9783030806453.
- Cameron, F. (2021), 'The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation in a More-than-Human World', : Routledge 9780367711641.
- Bennett, T., Cameron, F., Dias, N., Dibley, B., Harrison, R., Jacknis, I. and McCarthy, C. (2017), 'Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums and Liberal Government', : Duke University Press 9780822362531.
- Cameron, F. and Neilson, B. (2015), 'Climate Change and Museum Futures', : Routledge 9780415843911.
- Cameron, F. and Kelly, L. (2010), 'Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums', : Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443819749.
- Cameron, F. and Kenderdine, S. (2007), 'Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage : a critical discourse', : MIT Press 1262033534.
Chapters in Books
- Cameron, F. (2022), 'Viral agencies and curating worldly life differently in museum spaces', The Posthuman Pandemic, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350239067.
- Cameron, F. (2022), 'Hot topics : museums and Australia's culture wars', The Australian History Industry, Australian Scholarly Publishing 9781922669605.
- Cameron, F. (2020), 'Theorising heritage collection digitisations in global computational infrastructures', The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites, Routledge 9781138581296.
- Cameron, F. (2019), 'Beyond the cult of the replicant : museums and historical digital objects : traditional concerns, new discourses', Museum Studies. Volume 3, The Museum and its Technologies, Routledge 9781138014350.
- Cameron, F. (2019), 'Safe places for unsafe ideas? : history and science museums, hot topics and moral predicaments', Museum Studies. Volume 5, Museums, Controversy, and Politics, Routledge 9781138014350.
- Cameron, F. (2018), 'Stirring up trouble : museums as provocateurs and change agents in polycentric alliances for climate change action', Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences, Springer 9783319982939.
- Cameron, F. (2018), 'Posthuman museum practices ', Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350030244.
- Cameron, F., Hodge, B. and Salazar, J. (2015), 'Conclusion : climate change engagement : a manifesto for museums and science centers', Climate Change and Museum Futures, Routledge 9780415843911.
- Cameron, F. (2015), 'Ecologizing experimentations : a method and manifesto for composing a post-humanist museum', Climate Change and Museum Futures, Routledge 9780415843911.
- Cameron, F. (2015), 'We are on nature's side? : experimental work in rewriting narratives of climate change for museum exhibitions', Climate Change and Museum Futures, Routledge 9780415843911.
- Cameron, F. and Neilson, B. (2015), 'Introduction : climate change, museum futures', Climate Change and Museum Futures, Routledge 9780415843911.
- Cameron, F. (2015), 'The liquid museum : new institutional ontologies for a complex, uncertain world', The International Handbooks of Museum Studies. Volume 1, Museum Theory, Wiley-Blackwell 9781405198509.
- Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2015), 'Transvisuality, geopolitics and cultural heritage in global flows : the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the death of the virtual terrorist', Transvisuality: The Cultural Dimension of Visuality. Volume II, Visual Organizations, Liverpool University Press 9781781381786.
- Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2013), 'Authorizing the unauthorized : liquidity, complexity and the heritage-tourist in the era of social media ', Heritage and Tourism : Place, Encounter, Engagement, Routledge 9780415532648.
- Cameron, F. (2012), 'Museum collections, documentation, and shifting knowledge paradigms', Reinventing the Museum: the Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift, AltaMira Press 9780759119642.
- Cameron, F. (2012), 'Muzeumi gyujtemenyek, dokumentacio es a tudas valtozo paradigmai', Muzeumelmelet: A kepzeletbeli Muzeumtol a Halozati Muzeumig, Racio 9786155047367.
- Cameron, F. (2010), 'Museum Collections, Documentation and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms', Museums in a Digital Age, Routledge 9780415402613.
- Cameron, F. (2010), 'Introduction', Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums, Cambridge Scholars 9781443819749.
- Cameron, F. (2010), 'Risk society, Controversial topics and Museum Interventions: (Re) reading Controversy and the Museum Through a Risk Optic', Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums, Cambridge Scholars 9781443819749.
- Cameron, F. (2010), 'Liquid governmentalities and the climate crisis', Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums, Cambridge Scholars 9781443819749.
- Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2010), 'Activating the networked object for a complex world', Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments, Information Science Reference 9781609600440.
- Cameron, F. (2007), 'Beyond the cult of the replicant - museums and historical digital objects: traditional concerns, New Discourses', Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage : a critical discourse, MIT Press 0262033534.
- Cameron, F. and Kenderdine, S. (2007), 'Introduction', Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage : a critical discourse, MIT Press 1262033534.
- Cameron, F. and Robinson, H. (2007), 'Digital Knowledgescapes: Cultural, Theoretical, Practical and Usuage Issues Facing Museum Collections Databases in a Digital Epoch', Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage : a critical discourse, MIT Press 262033534.
- Cameron, F. (2007), 'Moral lessons and reforming agendas: history museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies', Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed, Routledge 9780415444675.
- Cameron, F. (2007), 'The politics of heritage authorship: the case of digital heritage collections', New Heritage, New Media and Cultural Heritage, Routledge 9780415773560.
Journal Articles
- Cameron, F., Dibley, B. and Ellsworth, D. (2023), 'Climate collections and photosynthetic, fossil-fueled atmospheres', Environmental Humanities, vol 15, no 2 , pp 62 - 84.
- Cameron, F. (2023), 'Curating and museologies in more-than-human worlds', The Large Glass: Journal of Contemporary Art, Culture and Theory, vol 35/36 , pp 52 - 58.
- Cameron, F. (2020), 'Young people, climate mobilisation and science centre alliances', Spokes, vol 68 .
- Cameron, F. and McCarthy, C. (2015), 'Two anthropological assemblages : Maori 'culture areas' and 'adaptation' in New Zealand museums and government policy', Museum and Society, vol 13, no 1 , pp 88 - 106.
- Cameron, F. and McCarthy, C. (2015), 'Museum, field, colony : collecting, displaying and governing people and things', Museum & Society, vol 13, no 1 , pp 1 - 6.
- Cameron, F. (2015), 'Theorising more-than human collectives for climate change action in museums', L'internationale, .
- Cameron, F. (2014), 'From "dead things" to immutable, combinable mobiles : H.D. Skinner, the Otago Museum and University and the Governance of Maori populations', History and Anthropology, vol 25, no 2 , pp 208 - 226.
- Cameron, F., Hodge, B. and Salazar, J. (2013), 'Representing climate change in museum space and places', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews : Climate Change, vol 4, no 1 , pp 9 - 21.
- Cameron, F. (2012), 'Climate change, agencies and the museum and science centre sector', Museum Management and Curatorship, vol 27, no 4 , pp 317 - 339.
- Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2012), 'Cosmopolitics, border crossings and the complex museum', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol 18, no 6 , pp 637 - 653.
- Cameron, F. (2011), 'From mitigation to creativity: the agency of museums and science centres and the means to govern climate change', Museum & Society, vol 9, no 2 , pp 90 - 106.
- Cameron, F. and Deslandes, A. (2011), 'Museums and science centres as sites for deliberative democracy on climate change', Museum & Society, vol 9, no 2 , pp 136 - 153.
- Cameron, F. (2011), 'Climate change as a complex phenomenon and the problem of cultural governance', Museum and Society, vol 9, no 2 , pp 84 - 89.
- Cameron, F. (2011), 'Saving the disappearing islands : climate change governance, Pacific island states and cosmopolitan dispositions', Continuum, vol 25, no 6 , pp 873 - 886.
- Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2009), 'Complexity, transdisciplinarity and museum collections documentation: Emergent metaphors for a complex world', Journal of Material Culture, vol 14, no 2 , pp 189 - 218.
- Cameron, F. (2008), 'Safe places for unsafe ideas? : history and science museums, hot topics and moral predicaments', Social History in Museums, vol 32 , pp 5 - 16.
- Cameron, F. (2008), 'Object-oreintated democracies: conceptulaising museum collections in networks', Museum Management and Curatorship, vol 23, no 3 , pp 229 - 243.
- Cameron, F. (2006), 'Criticality and Contention: museums, contemporary societies, civic roles and responsiblities in the 21st century', Open Museum Journal : Contest and Contemporary Society, vol 8 .
- Cameron, F. (2006), 'Beyond Surface Representations: Museums, Edgy topics, Civic Responsiblities and Modes of Engagement', Open Museum Journal : Contest and Contemporary Society, vol 8 .
- Cameron, F. (2005), 'Digital Futures II: Museum Collections, Documentation and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms', Collections, vol 1, no 3 , pp 243 - 259.
- Cameron, F. (2005), 'Contentiousness and shifting knowledge paradigms: the roles of history and science museums in contemporary societies', Museum Management and Curatorship, vol 20, no 3 , pp 213 - 233.
- Cameron, F. (2003), 'Transcending Fear - engaging emotions and opinions - a case for museums in the 21st century', Open Museum Journal, vol 6 .
- Cameron, F. (2003), 'Digital Futures I: Museum Collections, Users, Information Needs and the Cultural Construction of Knowledge', Curator: the Museum journal, vol 46, no 3 , pp 325 - 340.
- Cameron, F. (2001), 'Wired collections : the next generation', Museum Management and Curatorship, vol 19, no 3 , pp 309 - 315.
Conference Papers
- Cameron, F. (2008), 'Museum predicaments : (re) considering institutional forms and controversy in global risk society', The Greater Potential of Giant Screen Experiences Symposium, Jersey City, N.J..
- Cameron, F. (2008), 'Object-orientated democracies : contradictions, challenges and opportunities', Museums and the Web, Montreal, Quebec.
- Cameron, F. (2006), 'Decolonizing the Past: the politics of new heritage objects', New Heritage Conference 2006, Hong Kong.
- Cameron, F. (2003), 'The next generation - 'knowledge environments' and digital collections', Museums and the Web, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Cameron, F. (1997), 'The exhibition : neutral or instrumental? : ethnological discourse and the representation of Maori in museum exhibitions', Museums Australia. National Conference, Darwin, N.T..
Other Publications
- 2012, 'Hot Science Global Citizens: Research Insights for Museum Victoria 2012', Report
- 2012, 'Hot Science Global Citizens: Research Insights for Liberty Science Center 2012', Report
- 2012, 'Hot Science Global Citizens: Research Insights for Australian Museum 2012', Report
- 2012, 'Hot Science Global Citizens: Research Insights for Powerhouse Museum 2012', Report
- 2012, 'Hot Science Global Citizens: Research Insights for Questacon 2012', Report
- 2010, 'Hot Science, Global Citizens Online Survey Findings (Australia and US (New York City, New York State, New Jersey State, Jersey City)', Report
- 2005, 'Burnside Museum: The 'Beating Heart' of the Agency: Re-development Report', Report
- 2003, 'Knowledge Objects: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Collections Documentation', Report
- 2001, 'Themescaping Virtual Collections: Accessing and Interpreting Museum Collections On-Line', Report
Current Projects
| Title: | Curating Museum Collections for Climate Change Mitigation |
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| Western Researchers: | Fiona R Cameron and David Ellsworth |
| Years: | 2021-10-27 - 2025-03-31 |
| ID: | P00026879 |
Previous Projects
| Title: | Reconceptualising Heritage Collections: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Museum Collections and Documentation |
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| Western Researchers: | Fiona R Cameron |
| Years: | 2005-09-05 - 2010-11-30 |
| ID: | P0014772 |
| Title: | Global Citizenship and the Agency of the Museum Sector in Climate Change Interventions |
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| Western Researchers: | Fiona R Cameron, Bob Hodge, Brett Neilson, Juan Francisco Salazar Sutil and Jann Conroy |
| Years: | 2008-01-29 - 2012-12-31 |
| ID: | P0015673 |
| Title: | Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance |
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| Western Researchers: | Tony Bennett and Fiona R Cameron |
| Years: | 2011-03-01 - 2015-03-31 |
| ID: | P00018152 |
Supervision
Associate Professor Cameron is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Thesis Title: | Transcending Boundaries: "The Arts of Islam Exhibition" |
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