{"title":"Books by Wayne Modest","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9789401477512","title":"Our Colonial Inheritance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Colonial Inheritance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the complex ways in which slavery and colonialism continue to shape the present, and examines the many entanglements of colonial knowledge systems and infrastructures with our everyday lives. This publication comes at a time when important conversations are happening about the role that the colonial past has played in shaping our society, and how we can engage with this past in the present. The use of the term \"inheritance\" in the title is a conscious choice, used to provoke what in our view is a different kind of relationship to the past. Throughout the publication, the authors interrogate what it means to inherit the (infra)structures of the colonial past, its categories, its relations and even its objects, and how we can deal with such bequests.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313348718965,"sku":"9789401477512","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789401477512_39495b7e-6ded-46b7-b961-c9c43dbea2ea.jpg?v=1786033470"},{"product_id":"9780300279979","title":"Beyond Boundaries – Seeing Art History from the Caribbean","description":"An examination of how engagement with the nuances of Caribbean intellectual thought could reshape art history   Despite its rich cultural and intellectual heritage, the Caribbean region has often been excluded from art history—along with essential discussions ranging from plantation life and antislavery movements to decolonization and transculturation. Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean explores why the field has been slow to embrace Caribbean intellectual history and advocates for an approach that acknowledges the multidisciplinary and multilingual nature of the region’s voices. By reevaluating existing interpretive methodologies, the authors show how a broader engagement with Caribbean perspectives can benefit art history, reshaping the discourse and creating a more inclusive and dynamic field.      Distributed for the Clark Art Institute","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367955214709,"sku":"9780300279979","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300279979.jpg?v=1791212793"},{"product_id":"9781032411590","title":"Decolonizing the Museum","description":"This book asks what it means to decolonize museums in theory and practice. It explores recent calls by activists and artists for social change in and through museums and how museums have responded to these calls and interventions.   The point of departure for this volume is the burgeoning global debates around racism that have compelled many museums and public institutions to confront their complicity in colonialism, both past and present. Building on interviews with curators, cultural practitioners, activists, and artists, as well as the authors' ongoing involvement with movements aimed at decolonizing museums, this volume explores how anti-racist activism and artivism have transformed museums, as well as the broader social and political significance of these transformations. The book focuses on the practices, approaches, and strategies that are being adopted in efforts to decolonize museums and cultural institutions, where they succeed and fail, and the similarities and differences between these initiatives. It discusses specific exhibitions and whether they represent colonialism as a past phenomenon or as enduring racial logics forcefully shaping the present. It analyzes both mainstream European museums and grassroots, museum-like initiatives that aim to reckon with colonialism and race in different contexts. Core to the argument is the issue of how memory, heritage, and museum studies, the disciplines that explore, explain, and staff museums, have engaged or not with race.   Decolonizing the Museum will be valuable for those studying or researching in the fields of museum studies, heritage, memory and art studies, decolonial theory, postcolonialism, race and racism, and cultural politics. Providing an important window into the political role of curators and the politics of race in transforming museums, it will also be beneficial to museum practitioners and activists and artists with a stake in these institutions.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419671343477,"sku":"9781032411590","price":67.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032411590_eb3549e4-5ffb-4116-889f-f39726f70489.jpg?v=1786017037"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-wayne-modest.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}