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VERGÈS FRANÇOISE A PROGRAMME OF ABSOLUTE DISORDER

"A complete overhaul of the Western  museum tradition" -Publishers Weekly    "An impressive
critique of the universal museum as complicit in the damages inflicted by colonial power"
-Isaac Julien  artist and filmmaker    "Should fascinate anyone interested  in social justice 
post-colonialism a nd the arts" -Euronews    "Powerful and so relevant" -Diacritik    The
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?    In A Programme of Absolute Disorder   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.    Vergès 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.    Françoise Vergès is a
political scientist  activist  historian  film writer  and public educator. She is the author
of A Decolonial Feminism and A Feminist History of Violence . She is also a senior research
fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation  University
College London.

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