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Item Number: 126736
Title: The Postcolonial Museum : The Arts of Memory and the Pressures of History
Author: Chambers, Iain (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472415677
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 254pp. illus. Contents: Introduction: disruptive encounters. Museums, art, and postcoloniality, Alessandra De Angelis, Celeste Ianniciello, Mariangela Orabona and Michaela Quadraro; Part I Global Migrations, Transcultural Heritage: A museum without objects, François Vergès; Decolonizing national museums of ethnography in Europe: exposing and reshaping colonial heritage (2000-2012), Felicity Bodenstein and Camilla Pagani; Colonial spaces, postcolonial narratives: the exhibitionary landscape of Fort Cochin in India, Neelima Jeychandran; Ethnographic museums: from colonial exposition to intercultural dialogue, Fabienne Boursiquot. Part II Artistic Incursions in Space and Time: ‘There is not yet a world’, Ebadur Rahman; The artist as interlocutor and the labour of memory, Joanna Figiel, Mihaels Brebenel and Christopher Collier; Performance in the museum space (for a wandering society) Margherita Parati. Part III Disorienting the Museum: ‘Museo diffuso’: performing memory in public spaces, Viviana Gravano; Mining the museum in an age of migration, Anne Ring Petersen; Blurring history: the Central European museum and the schizophrenia of capital, Ivan Jurica; The limits to institutional change: organizational roles and roots, Peggy Levitt. Part IV Representation and Beyond: The incurable image: curation and repetition on a tri-continental scene, Tarek Elhaik; The postcolonial ‘exhibitionary complex’: the role of the international expo in migrating and multicultural societies, Stefania Zuliani; Orientalism and the politics of contemporary art exhibitions, Alessandra Marino; What museum for Africa?, Itala Vivan. Part V Future Memories, Alternative Archives: Egyptian chemistry: from post-colonial to post-humanist matters, Ursula Biemann; ‘The lived moment’: new aesthetics for migrant recollection, Peter Leese; Coding/decoding the archive, David Gauthier and Erin La Cour; Afterword: after the museum, Iain Chambers.

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