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SUMMARY:Guided by objects: from the museum to Southeast Asia (and back)
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DESCRIPTION:The call to restitute cultural objects acquired in a colonial c
 ontext from European heritage institutions to formerly colonized countries 
 in Southeast Asia is rapidly gaining momentum. Often, in Asian and European
  public and official discourse the restitution of ‘colonial’ objects is fra
 med as a ‘return’ (pengembalian in Bahasa Indonesia) to the country of orig
 in and to the context where they naturally belong. As such, the return is c
 onceptualized as an endpoint, a formal undoing of a moral wrong in the past
 , and as the closing chapter of a book about looting, appropriation and dis
 possession in a colonial context.\n\nIn the panel Guided by objects, we pro
 pose to approach objects and their histories differently. Above all, we reg
 ard objects as micro-historical guides tying together a variety of location
 s and geographies, a diversity of perspectives, significations and meanings
 , multiple social stratums and intersections, and different epochs and regi
 mes. The moments of (violent) acquisition in a colonial context and – poten
 tially – post-colonial restitution are obviously significant turning points
  in the social biography of an object, but their histories stretch further 
 back in time and have new trajectories into the future. We argue for a soci
 ally differentiated and politically conscious analysis of the position of o
 bjects in (pre)colonial and postcolonial societies, and the power to determ
 ine their trajectories.\n\nThis panel asks how objects and their micro-hist
 ories relate to grand histories and dominant narratives. Under what circums
 tances do objects, as heritage, become a mobilizing force in response to so
 cial and political challenges, and to whom? What role can objects play to d
 ecolonize museums and societies, in Europe and Asia, nationally and locally
 ? And which objects and collections tell which histories?
URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/guided-by-objects-from-the-museum-to-southeast-asia-and-back
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