Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums

• Other Authors: Modest, Wayne (Editor), Augustat, Claudia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
• Series: Edition Museum 77
• Subjects: Museology & heritage studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Gender studies, gender groups; Museums; Ethnography; Care; Environmental Justice; Climate Crisis; Contemporary Art; Museum; Culture; Museum Education; Cultural Anthropology; Gender Studies
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.