Decolonizing German and European history at the Museum / Katrin Sieg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sieg, Katrin, 1961- author.

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum techniques--Moral and ethical aspects--Europe--21st century.

Museum techniques.

Museum techniques--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany--21st century.

Decolonization in art--21st century.

Decolonization in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum examines European museums' efforts to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair. A flurry of exhibitions and the overhaul of numerous large museums in the last decade signal that an emergent colonial memory culture is now reaching broader publics. Exhibitions pose the question of what Europeans owe to those they colonized. Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum shows how museums can help visitors mourn historic violence and identify the contemporary agents, beneficiaries, victims, survivors, and resisters of colonial presence. At the same time, the book treats the museum as part of the racialized power relations that have long been protested by activists, academics and artists. This book asks whether museums have made the dream of activists, academics, and artists to build equitable futures more acceptable and more durable--or whether in packaging that dream for general audiences they curtail it. Confronting colonial violence, this book argues, pushes Europeans to face the histories of racism and urges them to envision antiracism at the global scale.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Contestations

1. Colonial History and Imperial Presence in the Museum: Historiography, Mourning, Sovereignty

2. Activist Interventions in European Ethnology Museums

3. Encasing Colonialism and Cosmopolitan Citizenship at the German History Museum

German Colonialism: Fragments of Its Past and Present

4. Confronting a Violent Past, Choreographing Mourning

5. Decolonizing the Metropole: Antiracism and Civil Society

6. Imperial World Order, Elusive Sovereignty

Postsovereignty

7. Postcolonial Europe at the House of European History

8. Artists in/against the Museum

9. Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472129584

0472129589

OCLC:

1256555098