Doctor Fiona R Cameron

Doctor Fiona R Cameron

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW,
Institute for Culture & Society

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Massey University, NZ

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Institute for Culture & Society

Contact

Email:F.Cameron@uws.edu.au
Extension:9677
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Location:EM.G.17
Parramatta
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Publications

Books

  • Cameron, F. and Kenderdine, S. (2007), 'Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage : a critical discourse', : MIT Press 1262033534.

Chapters in Books

  • Cameron, F. and Cameron, F. (2012), 'Museum collections, documentation, and shifting knowledge paradigms', Reinventing the museum: evolving conversations in the paradigm shift, AltaMira Press 97807591.
  • 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. (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. (2009), 'Museum Collections, Documentation and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms', Museums in a Digital Age, Routledge 9780415402613.
  • 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., Hodge, B. and Salazar, J. (2013), 'Representing climate change in museum space and places', WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS. CLIMATE CHANGE, 13.
  • Cameron, F., Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2012), 'Cosmopolitics, border crossings and the complex museum', International Journal of Heritage Studies, .
  • Cameron, F. (2012), 'Climate change, agencies and the museum and science centre sector', Museum Management and Curatorship, 23.
  • Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2012), 'Cosmopolitics, border crossings and the complex museum', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 17.
  • Cameron, F. (2012), 'Climate change, agencies and the museum and science centre sector', Museum Management and Curatorship, 23.
  • Cameron, F. (2011), 'From mitigation to creativity: the agency of museums and science centres and the means to govern climate change', Museum & Society, 17.
  • Cameron, F. and Deslandes, A. (2011), 'Museums and science centres as sites for deliberative democracy on climate change', Museum & Society, 18.
  • Cameron, F. (2011), 'Saving the disappearing islands: climate change governance, Pacific island states and cosmopolitan dispositions', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 14.
  • Cameron, F. and Cameron, F. (2011), 'Climate change as a complex phenomenon and the problem of cultural governance', Museum and Society, 6.
  • Cameron, F. and Mengler, S. (2009), 'Complexity, transdisciplinarity and museum collections documentation: Emergent metaphors for a complex world', Journal of Material Culture, 30.
  • Cameron, F. (2008), 'Object-oreintated democracies: conceptulaising museum collections in networks', Museum Management and Curatorship, 15.
  • Cameron, F. (2006), 'Criticality and Contention: museums, contemporary societies, civic roles and responsiblities in the 21st century', Open Museum Journal : Contest and Contemporary Society, .
  • Cameron, F. (2006), 'Beyond Surface Representations: Museums, Edgy topics, Civic Responsiblities and Modes of Engagement', Open Museum Journal : Contest and Contemporary Society, .
  • Cameron, F. (2005), 'Digital Futures II: Museum Collections, Documentation and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms', Collections, 17.
  • Cameron, F. (2005), 'Contentiousness and shifting knowledge paradigms: the roles of history and science museums in contemporary societies', Museum Management and Curatorship, 21.
  • Cameron, F. (2003), 'Transcending Fear - engaging emotions and opinions - a case for museums in the 21st century', Open Museum Journal, .
  • Cameron, F. (2003), 'Digital Futures I: Museum Collections, Users, Information Needs and the Cultural Construction of Knowledge', Curator: the Museum journal, 16.
  • Cameron, F. (2001), 'Wired Collections - the next generation', Museum Management and Curatorship, 7.

Conference Papers

  • Cameron, F. (2008), 'Safe places for unsafe ideas? History and science museums, hot topics and moral predicaments', Too Hot to Handle? Exploring Emotive Issues in Social History, Sheffield.
  • 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', Online paper, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance
Years:2011-03-01 - 2014-02-28
ID:P00018152
UWS Researchers:Tony Bennett and Fiona R Cameron
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:Reconceptualising Heritage Collections: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Museum Collections and Documentation
Years:2005-09-05 - 2010-11-30
ID:P0014772
UWS Researchers:Fiona R Cameron
Funding:
  • Powerhouse Museum
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Global Citizenship and the Agency of the Museum Sector in Climate Change Interventions
Years:2008-01-29 - 2012-12-31
ID:P0015673
UWS Researchers:Fiona R Cameron, Bob Hodge, Brett Neilson, Juan Francisco Salazar and Jann Conroy
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Questacon
  • Museum of Victoria
  • Australian Museum
  • Liberty Science Center
  • Powerhouse Museum

Supervision

Doctor Cameron is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Transcending Boundaries: "The Arts of Islam Exhibition"
Field of Research:

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