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Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums
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Abstract Alarming environmental shifts and disasters have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are distributed unequally, affecting some of the already most fragile communities most intensely, thus contr... view more
Alarming environmental shifts and disasters have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are distributed unequally, affecting some of the already most fragile communities most intensely, thus contributing to rising global inequality. The pairing of environmental crises and a sense of inadequacy facing hitherto celebrated models of citizenry informs a current spirit of the times. The contributors to this volume place ethnographic or world cultures museums at the centre of these debates - these museums have been embroiled in longstanding debates about their histories, collections, and practices in relation to the colonial past.... view less
Keywords
museum; ethnography; art; present; culture; cultural anthropology; gender studies; climate change; post-colonialism
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
Care; Environmental Justice; Climate Crisis; Contemporary Art; Museum Education
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
222 p.
Series
Edition Museum, 77
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839468487
ISSN
2702-9026
ISBN
978-3-8394-6848-7
Status
Published Version; reviewed