Decolonising ethnological museums: Art as a way out of the crisis of representation?
Abstract: Against the backdrop of the current debate revolving around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, dealing with ethnological collections in science and society has become a controversial subject, as the history of ethnological museums is inseparably...
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Abstract: Against the backdrop of the current debate revolving around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, dealing with ethnological collections in science and society has become a controversial subject, as the history of ethnological museums is inseparably linked to Eurocentrism and colonialism. Criticism of ethnological museums is not new, but it has not yet translated into the exhibition practice accordingly - dominant narratives have consistently been reproduced. Post-colonial criticism of museums is not only levelled against the appropriation and submission of bodies and objects of other cultures, but already starts at the epistemological concepts on which the museum as an institution is founded. How can museums encounter this past? Can the transformation of a colonial institution into a space for post-colonial discourse be successful? What are the challenges at the interface of ethnological museums and art?
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Decolonising ethnological museums: Art as a way out of the crisis of representation?
Abstract: Against the backdrop of the current debate revolving around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, dealing with ethnological collections in science and society has become a controversial subject, as the history of ethnological museums is inseparably...
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Abstract: Against the backdrop of the current debate revolving around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, dealing with ethnological collections in science and society has become a controversial subject, as the history of ethnological museums is inseparably linked to Eurocentrism and colonialism. Criticism of ethnological museums is not new, but it has not yet translated into the exhibition practice accordingly - dominant narratives have consistently been reproduced. Post-colonial criticism of museums is not only levelled against the appropriation and submission of bodies and objects of other cultures, but already starts at the epistemological concepts on which the museum as an institution is founded. How can museums encounter this past? Can the transformation of a colonial institution into a space for post-colonial discourse be successful? What are the challenges at the interface of ethnological museums and art?
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Approaches to Decolonizing Settler Colonialism: Examples from Canada
Abstract: Das Working Paper untersucht Ansätze der 'Dekolonisierung' in kanadischen Universitäten und Museen. Kanada zählt zu den auf Siedlerkolonialismus aufgebauten Staaten, die sich ihrer kolonialen Gewaltgeschichte und deren anhaltenden...
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Abstract: Das Working Paper untersucht Ansätze der 'Dekolonisierung' in kanadischen Universitäten und Museen. Kanada zählt zu den auf Siedlerkolonialismus aufgebauten Staaten, die sich ihrer kolonialen Gewaltgeschichte und deren anhaltenden Implikationen ausdrücklich stellen; unter anderem mit Einrichtung einer Wahrheits- und Aussöhnungskommission, die Forschung, Dokumentation und die Entwicklung von konkreten Handlungsempfehlungen an Politik und Gesellschaft zum Ziel hatte. Die Kommission legte 2015 ihre Abschlussberichte sowie einen Katalog an Maßnahmen vor, die den Weg zu einem post-kolonialen Frieden im Land bereiten würden. Aber was bedeutet es, das Leben in einem Land zu 'dekolonisieren', das auf tiefgreifenden und nachhaltig wirksamen Strukturen des Siedlerkolonialismus aufgebaut wurde? Wie haben staatliche Institutionen auf diese Herausforderung reagiert? Die Universitäten und Museen, die das WP darauf hin anschaut, haben eine Schlüsselrolle in der Verbreitung von Narrativen und Bild
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Restitution or Cooperation? Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Cultural Development in Africa
Abstract: This paper provides a critical and historical perspective on the use of the language of ‘development cooperation’ in characterizations of post-colonial relations between the West and Africa. Using the example of the post-colonial debates...
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Abstract: This paper provides a critical and historical perspective on the use of the language of ‘development cooperation’ in characterizations of post-colonial relations between the West and Africa. Using the example of the post-colonial debates over cultural and economic restitution between Congo and its former colonizer Belgium, this paper narrates the historical process by which the post-colonial relations between the two countries became defined as ‘development cooperation’, and the implications of that process. The paper shows that since its political independence in 1960 until the late 1980s, the language in which Congo/Zaire described its ‘cooperation’ with its former Belgian colonizer was one that emphasised restitution, while Belgium insisted on a language of ‘development cooperation’ (ontwikkelingssamenwerking). The paper argues that the prevalence of the use of the development cooperation language today not only obscures the historical process behind its ascent; it also masks in
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