Françoise Vergès

A Programme of Absolute Disorder (eBook, ePUB)

Decolonizing the Museum
Übersetzer: Thackway, Melissa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A complete overhaul of the Western museum traditionPublishers Weekly

An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the damages inflicted by colonial powerIsaac Julien, artist and filmmaker

Should fascinate anyone interested in social justice, post-colonialism and the artsEuronews

Powerful and so relevantDiacritik

The Western museum is a battlegrounda terrain of ideological, political and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the audacity to question the idea of the universal museum itself?

In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre's history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe's self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.

Vergès outlines a radical horizon: to truly decolonize the museum is to implement a programme of absolute disorder, inventing other ways of apprehending the human and non-human world that nourish collective creativity and bring justice and dignity to the dispossessed.

Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism and A Feminist History of Violence. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745349626
• Artikelnr.: 70320275

Autorenporträt

Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film producer and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist History of Violence and the forthcoming A Programme of Absolute Disorder. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, UCL.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. A Programme of Absolute Disorder
2. The Museum: A Battlefield
3. The Louvre, Napoleon, Capture, the Slave
4. Black is the model, white the frame
5. A Museum without Objects
Epilogue: Decolonial Tactics
Notes