1st Edition

Museums in Postcolonial Europe

Edited By Dominic Thomas Copyright 2010
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures. This book examines the contemporary debate surrounding the museum in postcolonial Europe. Although there is no consensus on the... Read more

Museums in Postcolonial Europe/Postcolonial Europe in Museums: An Introduction - Dominic Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Colonial Museums in a Post-Colonial Europe - Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney, Australia

"The Remains of the Day": The British and Commonwealth Museum - Corinna McLeod, Grand Valley State University

Finding a home in Hackney? Reimagining narratives of slavery through a multicultural community museum space - Zoe Norridge, New College, Oxford University, UK

Museum Practices and the Belgian Colonial Past: Questioning the Memories of an Ambivalent Metropole - Véronique Bragard and Stéphanie Planche, Belgium

Displaying Colonial Artifacts in Paris: Musée Permanent des Colonies to Musée du Quai Branly - Fassil Demissie, De Paul University, USA

Le Musée d’Art au Hasard: Responses of Black Paris to French Museum Culture - Bennetta Jules-Rosette and Erica Fontana, University of California San Diego, USA

Will the Musée du Quai Branly Show France the Way to Postcoloniality? - Herman Lebovics, SUNY – Stony Brook, USA

Still the Family Secret? The Representation of Colonialism in the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration - Mary Stevens, University College London, UK

Object/Subject Migration: The National Centre of the History of Immigration - Dominic Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Biography

Dominic Thomas is the Chair of the departments of French and Francophone Studies and Italian at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa (Indiana University Press, 2002) and Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism (Indiana University Press, 2007).