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Aim. My main research question is whether these narratives reproduce the anthropocentric world order or whether they attempt to transform it and introduce a new language into the museum space.
Methods. The empirical material consisted of texts accompanying museum exhibitions. I used critical discourse analysis to analyse the empirical material.
Results. The texts accompanying the analysed exhibitions contain many indicators proving that museums have tried to tell stories about nature in a new way. However, the language in the exhibitions still uses concepts from the anthropocentric dictionary, as evidenced by, for example, the location of events in the human era, the placing of responsibility for the deepening climate crisis on the entire human species, and the lack of critical references to the language of economics dominant in the public space.
Conclusion. Analysed exhibitions focus on our relationship with nature – specifically, the need to renew it. Building a new relationship with nature and realising that we are part of it is the basis for taking action for its good.
| Presenting author | Elżbieta Nieroba |
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