1st Edition

Museums, Empire and Decolonial Praxis A New Museum Paradigm?

Edited By Samuel Aylett-Streitberg, Matthew Jones Copyright 2027
204 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Museums, Empire and Decolonial Praxis examines how museums and heritage institutions interpret colonial histories today. Bringing together academics, practitioners and artists, this edited collection explores whether contemporary decolonial work signals the emergence of a new museum paradigm. Traversing time, place and institutional context, the chapters combine established and emerging case... Read more

00.   Introduction: Decolonisation in the Contact Zone Matthew Jones and Samuel Aylett-Streitberg

01.   Collecting the World on Paper: Travelling Artists and the History of the Art Museum Freya Schwachenwald

02.   A Map of Vulnerabilities: Racialisations, Racism and Decolonisation in German-Speaking Museums Gaëlle Shrot

03.   Unlithified: Meditations on Possibility and Minerals in the Museum Eleanor S. Armstrong and Kopo V. Oromeng

04.   Not Everything Is for Us: A Re-Assessment of Western Epistemology Through Digital Heritage Management Billie Duch Giménez

05.   Holding Art Museums Accountable: Recovering Entangled Lives of Enslaved People in London’s National Gallery Sean Cham

06.   Returning and Retaining – Reclaim and Repatriation of Ethnographic Photographs as Processes of Dispute, Contest and Reconciliation Alona Dubova

07.   Towards a New Anthropological Voice Sydney Stewart Rose

08.   Pulling strings: From Policies of Extraction and Accumulation to Policies of Care in the Work of Nicolás Grum Victoria Vargas-Downing

09.   Performing the Provenance of Ramesses II at the British Museum: Alternative Forms of Restitution in Contemporary Artistic Practice Liza Weber

10.   Exhibhitionary Praxis Toyin Agbetu

11.   “Dead on Arrival”? The Humboldt Forum Samuel Aylett-Streitberg and Ionna Streitberg

Biography

Samuel Aylett-Streitberg is Visiting Fellow in The Centre for Empire and Postcolonial Studies at the Open University and serves as Academic Director at Arden University Berlin, Germany.

Matthew Jones is an early career researcher with a PhD from the University of Sussex and has a forthcoming monograph titled Curating Transatlantic Slavery: Challenging History and Practices in the Museum.