A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum by Vergès, Françoise
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum by Vergès, Françoise

A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum

"A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition"--Publishers Weekly "An impressive critique of the universal museum as...
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Author: Françoise Vergès
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A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum by Vergès, Françoise

A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum

$54.45
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum by Vergès, Françoise

A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum

$54.45
Author: Françoise Vergès
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition"--Publishers Weekly

"An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the damages inflicted by colonial power"--Isaac Julien, artist and filmmaker

"Should fascinate anyone interested in social justice, post-colonialism and the arts"--Euronews

"Powerful and so relevant"--Diacritik

The 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, Fran?oise Verg?s 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.

Verg?s 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.

Fran?oise Verg?s is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism and A Feminist History of Violence. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London.

Author: Françoise Vergès
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 07/20/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780745349619

About the Author

Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film producer and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist History of Violence and the forthcoming 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, UCL.

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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