TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical museology, (Post)Colonial communication, and the gradual mastering of traumatic pasts at the royal museum for Central Africa (RMCA)
AU - Hasian, Marouf
AU - Wood, Rulon
N1 - This essay provides a critical analysis of some of the public and museological debates that have swirled around the rediscovery of a Congolese holocaust. The authors of the essay highlight some of the evolutionary changes that have taken place in the exhibitions that are presented in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) in Tervuren, Belgium, and they highlight some of the difficulties that attend the "mastering" of some complex colonial pasts.
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - This essay provides a critical analysis of some of the public and museological debates that have swirled around the rediscovery of a Congolese holocaust. The authors of the essay highlight some of the evolutionary changes that have taken place in the exhibitions that are presented in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) in Tervuren, Belgium, and they highlight some of the difficulties that attend the "mastering" of some complex colonial pasts. For more than a decade some harsh critics of the museum have complained about the exclusionary practices of the museum and elision of Leopoldian memories.
AB - This essay provides a critical analysis of some of the public and museological debates that have swirled around the rediscovery of a Congolese holocaust. The authors of the essay highlight some of the evolutionary changes that have taken place in the exhibitions that are presented in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) in Tervuren, Belgium, and they highlight some of the difficulties that attend the "mastering" of some complex colonial pasts. For more than a decade some harsh critics of the museum have complained about the exclusionary practices of the museum and elision of Leopoldian memories.
KW - Congo Free State
KW - Holocaust
KW - Leopold II
KW - Rhetoric
KW - Royal Museum for Central Africa
KW - Léopold II
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77951232890&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10570311003614484
U2 - 10.1080/10570311003614484
DO - 10.1080/10570311003614484
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951232890
SN - 1057-0314
VL - 74
SP - 128
EP - 149
JO - Western Journal of Communication
JF - Western Journal of Communication
IS - 2
ER -