Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Are Museum Entering a New Era of Repatriation?
(2024)
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- The centrality of the human body as site of colonial violence, and its implication for contemporary restitution policies, are discussed in Chapter 5 of Confronting Colonial Objects. The book shows that human remains and natural history objects are more than objects or human biological material. It draws on the interplay between human rights, transitional justice, heritage law and soft law to develop relational cultural justice principles regarding entangled objects. In this post, I wish to expand on the discussion, by inquiring to what extent museums are entering a new era of repatriation relating to human remains, in a transnational context. I draw partly on findings of my work on human remains and cultural heritage, published in a recent book, to argue in favour of an inclusive heritage justice model. That research was conducted under the auspices of the collective and interdisciplinary HOME project financed by the Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo).
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de Clippele, M.-S. (2024). Symposium on Confronting Colonial Objects: Are Museum Entering a New Era of Repatriation? https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/259816