Decolonising Political Modernity

From Ocean to Museum

Claire Sutherland (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

167 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5285-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book applies a decolonial perspective to key categories of colonial modernity, such as racism and nationalism, explores oceanic thinking as an alternative and proposes a UK museum of colonial modernity based on a critique of several existing European museums. It analyses historical and contemporary manifestations of racism and nationalism, particularly in British society. Drawing on the concept of colonial modernity, it traces the origins of racism to the colonial expansion and exploitation that began in the fifteenth century and continues to shape the world today. The book is distinctive in its interdisciplinary approach, engaging with history, politics and museum studies. It is also innovative in its comparative analysis of selected French, Dutch and Belgian museum exhibits using a decolonial lens. The book sets out a nuanced account of the complexity of representing race, ethnonationalism and colonial modernity in a museum context, using oceanic thinking to present alternative visions of belonging.

Autor

Claire Sutherland is a professor of politics at Northumbria University. She has previously published Reimagining the Nation: Togetherness, belonging and mobility, Nationalism in the 21st century: Challenges and responses and Soldered States: Nation-Building in Germany and Vietnam.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2025
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-0364-5285-9 / 1036452859
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0364-5285-8 / 9781036452858
• Zustand: Neuware