A Programme Of Absolute Disorder Decolonising The Museum 1st Edition Franoise Vergs by Françoise Vergès 9780745349619, 9780745349626, 0745349617, 0745349625 instant download after payment.

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

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, Françoise Vergès 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.

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.

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1 A Programme of Absolute Disorder

2 The Museum, a Battleground

3 The Louvre, Napoleon, Seizure, and the Enslaved

4 Black Is the Model, White Is the Frame

5 A Museum without Objects

Epilogue: Decolonial Tactics

Notes

Index