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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-8004370e980f40fca27fbb8b08e9b8322025-01-07T16:22:35ZengUniversity of LeicesterMuseum & Society1479-83602024-12-01222-310.29311/mas.v22i2-3.45893216Decolonial Museology, Space Travel and the Mineral CabinetAlana Osbourne0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2292-0521Radboud Universiteit NijmegenTaking 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.https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas/article/view/4589colonialismmuseumsgeology |
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| title | Decolonial Museology, Space Travel and the Mineral Cabinet |
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