All the things happening outside of the museum push me back in
Thinking through memory and belonging in Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701289 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vittoria Caradonna (0000-0003-4649-7406, Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-73 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2021.1910064 |
| OpenAlex | W3157482358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
Through a close examination of the exhibition Afterlives of Slavery, which opened on 6 October 2017 at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, this article interrogates the issues and contradictions emerging from thinking through decoloniality – from within the halls of an ethnographic museum located at the centre of the former colonial metropole. In recent years, the Tropenmuseum has been engaged in a process of reckoning with its position within the history of empire. To which ends does decolonial thinking enter the institution? And where does the museum situate itself within broader processes of memorialisation and heritagisation of slavery and colonialism? Drawing from extensive fieldwork and interviews with key informants, this article will attempt to answer these questions by exploring the tensions an exhibition such as Afterlives of Slavery has opened inside the museum
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Decoloniality · Empire · Ethnography · Exhibition · Happening · Institution · Media studies · Performance art · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Museology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies
The Culturalization of Citizenship
Memorylands
Is ‘Difficult Heritage’ Still ‘Difficult’?
Contesting Cultural Heritage
Discourse on Colonialism
Duress
Designs and (Co)Incidents
Colonial memory and forgetting in the Netherlands and Indonesia
White Innocence
Bringing museal silence into focus
Sheepology
Abortive Rituals
What Is New about Dutch Populism? Dutch Colonialism, Hierarchical Citizenship and Contemporary Populist Debates and Policies in the Netherlands
Colonial Aphasia
(E)racing Slavery
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |