Resisting extraction politics: Afro-Belgian claims, women activism, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa
(2020) Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial — ISBN: [9789462702189], p. 142-173, submitted
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- In this chapter, I want to take seriously this dispossession experienced by people of African descent during collaborations or temporary inclusion within Belgian institutions. I will show that identifying misunderstandings or dysfunctions is not sufficient to explain why people of African descent, whether activist or not, consider that institutions appropriate their knowledge and sometimes bodies as part of more or less remunerated labor for/ within Belgian institutions. I address these collaborations –which are seldom linked to long-standing inclusion or to diversity policies towards people of African descent leading to structural transformation of institutions (Ahmed 2012) – as instruments of ‘temporary inclusion’. I will discuss the conditions under which the experience of dispossession that occurs through these devices can be addressed as an extraction politics.
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Demart, S. (2020). Resisting extraction politics: Afro-Belgian claims, women activism, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa. In Margareta von Oswald Jonas Tinius (ed.), Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial (Leuven University Press, p. p. 142-173). Leuven University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv125jqxp.13