Programme of Absolute Disorder - Decolonizing the Museum

'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers WeeklyThe Western museum is a battleground - a terrain of ideological, political and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the audacity to question the idea of the universal museum itself?In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Francoise Verges puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre's history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe's self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.Verges outlines a radical horizon: to truly decolonize the museum is to implement a 'programme of absolute disorder', inventing other ways of apprehending the human and non-human world that nourish collective creativity and bring justice and dignity to the dispossessed.

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• Authors: Francoise Verges, Françoise Vergès
• Assisted by: Gilroy Paul (Foreword), Melissa Thackway (Translation), Melissa (Sciences-Po Thackway (Translation), Thackway Melissa (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2024
• EAN: 9780745349619
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4961-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, France, Conservation, restoration & care of artworks, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa, ART / Conservation & Preservation, HISTORY / Social History, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Colonialism & imperialism, Archaeology, Colonialism and imperialism, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Conservation, restoration and care of artworks, Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality, France: Places of interest