Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums

book: Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums

Edited by: Wayne Modest and Claudia Augustat

Volume 77 in the series Edition Museum

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839468487

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Alarming environmental shifts and crises have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are unequally distributed, 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.

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Wayne Modest (Prof. Dr.) is the Director of Content at the National Museum of World Cultures and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands (NMVW/WMR). He is also head of the Research Center for Material Culture, the research institute of these museums. Modest is also professor of material culture and critical heritage studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. A cultural studies scholar by training, Modest works at the intersection of material culture, memory and heritage studies, with a strong focus on colonialism and its afterlives in Europe and the Caribbean.
Claudia Augustat (Dr.) studied ethnology, art history and Indian art history at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and was awarded her PhD from the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She worked at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt a.M. and at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin before she became the curator for South American Collections at the Weltmuseum Wien in 2004. Since 2019 she has been the project leader of »Taking Care. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Places of Care«. Her research focuses on Amazonian collections from the 19th century, material culture and cultural memory, on collaborative curatorship and the decolonization of museum praxis.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Spaces of Care: Introduction Wayne Modest and Claudia Augustat Open Access Download PDF	9
Speculating Towards More Caring Futures
The Museum as a Space of Radical Imagination: Dismantling and Rebuilding Political Worlds Miriam Ticktin Open Access Download PDF	25
The Future Claimant’s Representative: On the Task of the Museum in the Time of the Planet Ian Baucom Open Access Download PDF	39
Toward a Negative Zoology: Not-Knowing for a Post- Anthropocene Future Mayanthi L. Fernando Open Access Download PDF	51
Holding On, Letting Go: Escaping the Contemporary Museum Audra Mitchell Open Access Download PDF	59
Experiment and Excavation in the Ethnographic Museum: Care, Cruelty, and Barbara Harrisson Juno Salazar Parreñas Open Access Download PDF	69
Museums of Non-Natural History Kathryn Yusoff Open Access Download PDF	77
Alongside One Another: Myth-Making and Risk in Narrativizing Enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope Amie Soudien Open Access Download PDF	83
Making (a) Difference
Yuki Kihara’s Going Native at Museum Volkenkunde Sofia Miorelli Open Access Download PDF	97
Conversation between Fernanda Olivares, Nicolás Spencer, Nora Haas, and Claudia Augustat Open Access Download PDF	103
Shared Reflections on Artistic Creation Processes in Times of COVID-19 Ainize González Open Access Download PDF	109
The Art of Hawaiian Quilting Cissy Serrao and Marenka Thompson-Odlum Open Access Download PDF	117
Reflections on A Collection in Turmoil. A Three-Day Workshop Held in September 2022 at MUCIV Adelita Husni Bey Open Access Download PDF	123
Curators As Mediators Between the Community and Museum Michel D. Lee and Aoife O’Brien Open Access Download PDF	129
Seko Na Seko (Forever) François Mutamba Tshibwabwa Open Access Download PDF	135
gathering, weathering Sybille Neumeyer Open Access Download PDF	139
The Cursed Land of Lustful Women Kanika Gupta and Tina Palaić Open Access Download PDF	145
Turning the Gaze Outside-In – Exploring Danish Pasts in Graphic Storytelling Martin Petersen Open Access Download PDF	151
Material Memories for Future Worlds
Wood, Ivory, and Palm Nuts: A (Dis)Continuation of an Old Sengele Story Guy Patrice Dkamela and Tine Huyse Open Access Download PDF	159
Climate Crisis – The Decline of Biodiversity and an Over 140-Year-Old Necklace Katharina Nowak Open Access Download PDF	163
The Doum Palm Between Colonial Exploitation and Collecting Rosa Anna Di Lella Open Access Download PDF	167
Native Hawaiian Kapa: Rebuilding a Sustainable Future Chang (Kumu Kapa) Page Open Access Download PDF	173
A World in a Box: Education and/or Extraction in a Dutch Colonial School Collection Esmee Schoutens Open Access Download PDF	177
Hundred-year-old Seediq Stories in the Swedish Collection Nokan (吳永昌Wu Yongchang) Awi Open Access Download PDF	181
Yeil koowú – A Raven’s Tail Ceremonial Robe Mille Gabriel, Shgendootan George and Matthew J. Walsh Open Access Download PDF	185
Cotton Cultivation in Togo Through the Lens of Europe's Periphery Tina Palaić Open Access Download PDF	189
Gentle Glory: Loss, Exile, and Survival in an Eleventh Century Tibetan Bodhisattva Nandini Thilak Open Access Download PDF	193
Skin and the Archive: Reading Ecology and Colonial Legacies in a Kuria Drum Ayesha Fuentes Open Access Download PDF	197
Rethinking Worldviews Through the Moche Blood Ceremony Ceramic Vessel: Lessons from the Past for an Environmentally Just Future Elena A. Ritschard Open Access Download PDF	201
Maize Deity or Spirit in the Andean Worldview Sirley Ríos Acuña Open Access Download PDF	205
Corona Puppet Emilie Girard Open Access Download PDF	209
Biographies of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	213

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 222
Keywords: Ethnography; Care; Environmental Justice; Climate Crisis; Contemporary Art; Museum; Culture; Museum Education; Cultural Anthropology; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: August 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839468487