Decolonization of the museum: prospects, theories and practice 3700-AL-DMPT-QHU
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Ariese, Csilla & Wróblewska, Magdalena, Practicing Decoloniality in Museums. A Guide with Global Examples, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2021
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Decolonize This Place. Open Letter to the Brooklyn Museum: Your Curatorial Crisis Is an Opportunity to Decolonize. Decolonize Brooklyn Museum [letter], 3 April 2018: https://decolonizebrooklynmuseum.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/the-journey-begins/
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Huis, Iris van, Contesting Cultural Heritage: Decolonizing the Tropenmuseum as an Intervention in the Dutch/European Memory Complex, w: Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Luisa Passerini, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus & Iris van Huis (eds) Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe (215-248). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Kassim, Sumaya, The Museum Will Not Be Decolonised. Media Diversified [essay], 15 November 2017: https://mediadiversified.org/2017/11/15/the-museum-will-not-be-decolonised/
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Modest, Wayne, & Lelijveld, Robin, (eds), Words Matter: An Unfinished Guide to Word Choices in the Cultural Sector, Wormerveer: Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum, Museum Volkenkunde & Wereldmuseum, 2018.
McLoughlin, Moira, Museums and the Representation of Native Canadians: Negotiating the Borders of Culture. London & New York: Routledge, 2014.
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Pomian, Krzysztof, The Collection: Between the Visible and the Invisible. In Susan M. Pearce (ed.) Interpreting Objects and Collections (160-174). London & New York: Routledge.
Prakash, Gyan, Science “Gone Native” in Colonial India. Representations 40: 153-178, 1994.
Procter, Alice, UK Museums Should Be Honest about Being Stuffed with Stolen Goods. The Guardian [opinion], 20 February 2019. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/20/uk-museums-honest-stolen-goods-imperialism-theft-repatriation
Simon, Nina, The Participatory Museum. Santa Cruz: Museum 2.0., 2010.
Smith, Claire, Decolonizing the Museum: The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Antiquity 79.304: 424-439, 2005.
Viso, Olga, Decolonizing the Art Museum: The Next Wave. The New York Times [opinion], 1 May 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/decolonizing-art-museums.html
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