{"product_id":"a-programme-of-absolute-disorder-decolonizing-the-museum","title":"A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e—\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the damages inflicted by colonial power\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e—Isaac Julien, artist and filmmaker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Should fascinate anyone interested \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ein social justice, post-colonialism and the arts\"\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEuronews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Powerful and so relevant\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e—\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDiacritik\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Programme of Absolute Disorder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVergès 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrançoise Vergès\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Decolonial Feminism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Feminist History of Violence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London. \u003cem\u003ePaperback, 224 pages. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PLUTO PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67839497699695,"sku":"75626","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/6368\/0098\/files\/AProgrammeofAbsoluteDisorder.png?v=1792697549","url":"https:\/\/shop.famsf.org\/products\/a-programme-of-absolute-disorder-decolonizing-the-museum","provider":"de Young \u0026 Legion of Honor Museum Stores","version":"1.0","type":"link"}