Critical Decolonial Politics: Social Justice, Material Restitution and Uncollecting from the Museum
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Abstract
This article offers a critical, contextual, and theoretical review of the decolonial policies sought to be promoted in Spanish state museums. Recognizing a decades-long history in which decolonial strategies have shared interests with other historical and identity politics, our argument places the urgency with which an immediate official response is demanded in the BlackLivesMatter movement. Along with the discursive or symbolic objection, for which the consideration of prejudice in the evaluation of historical testimony offers interesting avenues for work, material restitution becomes an unavoidable measure, promoting a necessary relocation of the economic within the symbolic. Furthermore, considering the extension of the colonial policies being confronted beyond the museum, this text addresses the degree of encroachment that the data business deploys in the digital realm, resorting to strategic concepts such as "decollection," which, as an updated version of decolonization, allows us to resist or filter the thrust of dominant discourse or thought.
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