'Confronting Colonial Objects' traces recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns in colonial history through the life story of cultural o

The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back to decolonizat

How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be diffi

International criminal justice relies on messages, speech acts, and performative practices in order to convey social meaning. Major criminal proceedings, such a