The PITCH project has published a groundbreaking special themed collection of articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies on Carbon heritages. All articles are published in OpenAccess format so they are free to access. Individual papers in the themed section consider museological collections connected to extractive industries and petrocultures in Germany, South Korea and…
Colin Sterling, Jeff Diamanti, Harry Reddick, and Selçuk Balamir have published the article “Inheriting energy infrastructures: from deindustrialisation to decarbonisation” in International Journal of Heritage Studies. Around the world, sites associated with coal, oil and gas are being transformed into ‘renewable’ energy hubs or cultural ‘incubators’ for the so-called green transition. This article argues that…
Nélia Dias and Mounir Sabeh Affaki have published the article “From exhibiting minerals to narrating extraction: reflections from Lisbon’s National Museum of Science and Natural History” in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. This paper focuses on two mineral exhibitions currently held at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) and aims to…
COP summits resemble the global equivalent of converging on the village square while the village is on fire: ineffective, procedural and frequently deadlocked, yet still one of the few places where movements, governments, corporations and institutions confront one another over how planetary futures are narrated and negotiated. Cultural institutions seize these moments eagerly. Some develop…
This policy brief responds to how petrocultures—cultural practices shaped by fossil fuel dependency—have historically influenced and continue to inform cultural heritage narratives. It highlights how heritage institutions have long normalized foregrounding industrial progress narratives while sidelining environmental justice and colonial legacies. Drawing on interdisciplinary evidence from energy humanities, heritage studies, and critical historical analyses, the brief…
