| Description |
287 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Series |
Decolonize That! Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas |
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Decolonize that!
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference (page 237-271). |
| Contents |
Returning the collection -- Subverting the gaze -- Rewriting the narrative -- Following the money. |
| Summary |
The idealized Western museum has remained much the same for over a century: a rarified space of cool stone, providing an experience of leisure and education for the general public while carefully preserving fragile artifacts from distant lands. As questions about representation and ethics have increasingly arisen, these institutions have proclaimed their interest in diversity and responsible conservation, asserting both their adaptability and their immovably essential role in a flourishing society. Lee punctures this fantasy, tracing the colonial origins of the concept of the museum. White Europeans' atrocities were reimagined through narratives of benign curiosity and abundant respect for the occupied or annihilated culture, and these racist narratives, Lee argues, remain integral to the authority--and even the aesthetics--of the contemporary museum. Citing pop culture portrayals from Indiana Jones to Black Panther and highlighting crucial activist campaigns to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, this volume argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place. --From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Museums -- Political aspects.
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Museums -- Social aspects.
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Cultural property.
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Decolonization.
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cultural property. (CStmoGRI)aat300055593
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Museums -- Social aspects
(OCoLC)fst01030203
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Decolonization (OCoLC)fst00889115
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Cultural property (OCoLC)fst00885014
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Museums -- Political aspects
(OCoLC)fst01030193
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| Added Author |
Shringarpure, Bhakti, editor, writer of preface.
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| ISBN |
9781682193150 (paperback) |
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1682193152 (paperback) |
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9781682193167 (ebook) |
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1682193160 (ebook) |
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