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Solarev
@solarev
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do - we do it all the time. -- Alice Munro, Dear Life
Instead of decolonising museums, the new practices echo and reinforce a racial discourse. They present an idea of culture as fixed and immutable – something people own by virtue of biological ancestry. This racial view of the world should trouble us.
https://aeon.co/ideas/does-one-ethnic-group-own-its-cultural-artefacts
misalignment
“It's a perspective that calls for reconciliation that begins within, acknowledging the other that resides in each of us, which, if not addressed, perpetuates the external and internal patterns that re-produce conflict.” (https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/issue/view/526) How can we address the other that resides in each of us? The other
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