Museums and Method… Sacred/secret/sensitive 6 Jan 2021 These terms are increasingly being used by institutions to describe items in collections which hold particular resonance for source and descendant communities by virtue of their spiritual significance and/or importance…
repatriation Return 9 Dec 202019 Jan 2021 We’ve discussed the technicalities of terms like “repatriation” and “restitution”, but the urgent debates to address the colonial past (and its contemporary effects!) in museums point towards the need for…
repatriation Restitution 3 Dec 202019 Jan 2021 Continuing in our three-part series on processes of returning objects and ancestors to their source communities, we turn our attention to “restitution”. Often used (mistakenly!) in place of “repatriation”, whilst…
repatriation Repatriation 26 Nov 202019 Jan 2021 Often misused, repatriation specifically refers to the process by which artefacts/objects are returned to a nation following a formal governmental request. This is often confused with ‘restitution’ and calls for…
The Decolonial Dictionary 