Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums

Download or read book Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums written by Wayne Modest and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarming environmental shifts and disasters have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are distributed unequally, 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.