Decolonial Museology, Space Travel and the Mineral Cabinet
Taking the Africa Museum’s mineral cabinet as a point of departure, I probe the entanglements of inorganic matter, coloniality, and mining for space travel. Through museum ethnography, and by thinking about minerality as a field that connects intra and extra-terrestrial interests, my research unpack...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Leicester
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Museum & Society |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas/article/view/4589 |
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| Summary: | Taking the Africa Museum’s mineral cabinet as a point of departure, I probe the entanglements of inorganic matter, coloniality, and mining for space travel. Through museum ethnography, and by thinking about minerality as a field that connects intra and extra-terrestrial interests, my research unpacks how colonial logics permeate relationships between earthbound and outer spaces. From this vantage point, I investigate how the calls for decolonial practices that resonate within museums studies relate to futurities that are embroiled in imperial logics of space conquest and mining. |
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| ISSN: | 1479-8360 |