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Vergès, Françoise

 
9780745349619: A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
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ISBN 10: 0745349617 ISBN 13: 9780745349619
Editorial: Pluto Press, 2024

Sinopsis

'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers Weekly

'The Western museum is a strange place... a cemetery of anonymous dead without sepulchres'

In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès strips away the veneer of the universal Western museum to reveal its origins as a warehouse for the spoils of colonial warfare.

By exploring the history of the Louvre, and following the radical tradition of Frantz Fanon, she argues that the modern institution cannot just be fixed with a more diverse board or by finding new ways to display the art.

Instead, she demands a 'post-museum': a space that rejects the financialization of art, acknowledges the bloody history of its collections, and prioritises the labour and dignity of those who clean, guard and inhabit its halls.

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Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist History of Violence and A Programme of Absolute Disorder. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London. She lives in Paris.



Paul Gilroy is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London. He is a renowned sociologist, historian and cultural theorist recognised for his pioneering work on race, Black diaspora and postcolonial culture. He is the author of The Black Atlantic, amongst other classics.



Melissa Thackway is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African Cinema at Sciences-Po and INALCO in Paris. Her recent translations include A Feminist Theory of Violence by Françoise Vergès, Contemporary African Cinema by Olivier Barlet, Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema-Going in Colonial West Africa by Odile Goerg and African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction by Daniela Ricci.

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Editorial
Pluto Press
Año de publicación
2024
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ISBN 10 
0745349617
ISBN 13 
9780745349619
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Número de páginas
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