A Programme of Absolute Disorder
Decolonizing the Museum
by Françoise Vergès ; foreword by Paul Gilroy

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Author(s)

Françoise Vergès, Paul Gilroy

Publication, year

London : Pluto, 2024

Scope

224 Pages, 24 cm.

ISBN

9780745349619

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The Western museum is regarded as a terrain of ideological, political and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum. Exploring the Louvre’s history, Françoise Vergès 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. Vergès 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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Location

Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie