Spaces of Care : Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums / ed. by Wayne Modest, Claudia Augustat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Augustat, Claudia, Editor.

Modest, Wayne, Editor.

Series:

Edition Museum Series

Edition Museum ; 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Alarming environmental shifts and crises have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are unequally distributed, 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Spaces of Care: Introduction

Speculating Towards More Caring Futures

The Museum as a Space of Radical Imagination: Dismantling and Rebuilding Political Worlds

The Future Claimant’s Representative: On the Task of the Museum in the Time of the Planet

Toward a Negative Zoology: Not-Knowing for a Post- Anthropocene Future

Holding On, Letting Go: Escaping the Contemporary Museum

Experiment and Excavation in the Ethnographic Museum: Care, Cruelty, and Barbara Harrisson

Museums of Non-Natural History

Alongside One Another: Myth-Making and Risk in Narrativizing Enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope

Making (a) Difference

Yuki Kihara’s Going Native at Museum Volkenkunde

Conversation between Fernanda Olivares, Nicolás Spencer, Nora Haas, and Claudia Augustat

Shared Reflections on Artistic Creation Processes in Times of COVID-19

The Art of Hawaiian Quilting

Reflections on A Collection in Turmoil. A Three-Day Workshop Held in September 2022 at MUCIV

Curators As Mediators Between the Community and Museum

Seko Na Seko (Forever)

gathering, weathering

The Cursed Land of Lustful Women

Turning the Gaze Outside-In – Exploring Danish Pasts in Graphic Storytelling

Material Memories for Future Worlds

Wood, Ivory, and Palm Nuts: A (Dis)Continuation of an Old Sengele Story

Climate Crisis – The Decline of Biodiversity and an Over 140-Year-Old Necklace

The Doum Palm Between Colonial Exploitation and Collecting

Native Hawaiian Kapa: Rebuilding a Sustainable Future

A World in a Box: Education and/or Extraction in a Dutch Colonial School Collection

Hundred-year-old Seediq Stories in the Swedish Collection

Yeil koowú – A Raven’s Tail Ceremonial Robe

Cotton Cultivation in Togo Through the Lens of Europe's Periphery

Gentle Glory: Loss, Exile, and Survival in an Eleventh Century Tibetan Bodhisattva

Skin and the Archive: Reading Ecology and Colonial Legacies in a Kuria Drum

Rethinking Worldviews Through the Moche Blood Ceremony Ceramic Vessel: Lessons from the Past for an Environmentally Just Future

Maize Deity or Spirit in the Andean Worldview

Corona Puppet

Biographies of Contributors

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

9783839468487

3839468485

OCLC:

1410514966