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: Françoise Vergès, Francoise Verges
• Assisted by: Gilroy Paul (Foreword), Melissa Thackway (Translation), Melissa (Sciences-Po Thackway (Translation), Thackway Melissa (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 20.06.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780745349619
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4961-9
• Pages: 224
• Subjects: History of Ideas, France, Paul, 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, Visual Culture, Archaeology, Colonialism, museums, Social Justice, Colonialism and imperialism, Enlightenment, Post-colonialism, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Conservation, restoration and care of artworks, Art Theory, Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality, France: Places of interest, Reparations, Subaltern Studies, French colonial history, French Colonialism, the Louvre, Benin Bronzes, Elgin marbles, cultural patrimony, France and colonialism, Dan Hicks, Loot Barnaby Philips, Restitution and Repatriation, A Decolonial Feminism, returning objects from museums, Institutional Abolition, decolonising the museum, Universal Museum, Museums and antiracism, Repatriated artifacts, Slavery and the Louvre, the museum will not be decolonised, Réunion Island, museums of the future, history of the Louvre, Cultural Restitution, Human Remains in Museums., Heritage Industry, decolonising the Louvre, museum ethics, European Museums, Stolen artefacts, Repatriation of cultural property, Looted art and the Louvre, benin bronzes returned, Artwashing, Decolonial politics, The Louvre and Racism, Benedicte Savoy, Are museums racist, reimagining the museum, What is the Louvre like, Brutish Museums Dan Hicks, Is the Louvre racist, A Feminist Theory of Violence