Museums and Method Trade 14 May 2021 This is a term that recurs across museum exhibits describing historical relationships of economics, exchange and acquisition. However, the use of the term in museums to signal the commercial and…
philosophy Modernity 12 Sep 201919 Jan 2021 When talking about history, museums often fall into the trap of pitting “tradition” against “modernity”. By thinking about history and the present as a binary, these narratives miss the subtleties…
critical race theory… Indigenous peoples 29 Aug 2019 According to the UN, Indigenous peoples are the ‘inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment’ and are distinguished from later settled populations…
philosophy Gaze 27 Aug 201922 Feb 2022 The idea of the ‘male gaze’ was posited by film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’. This concept suggests that women, as they are…
Museums and Method Explore 21 Aug 2019 Much like discover, the word explore is often used in museums to describe the intrepid adventurers that travelled to the ends of the earth in the name of science and…
postcolonial theory Exotic 20 Aug 2019 Descriptions of faraway lands and their cultures and resources are sometimes talked about as ‘exotic’ as a way of expressing appreciation and unfamiliarity at the same time. An example of…
Museums and Method Erasure 17 Jul 2019 Used to reference the fact that through colonial violence (cultural as well as physical), assimilation policies and mainstream misattribution, cultures are removed from the record. When thinking about how this…
The Decolonial Dictionary 