Publications

Publication details [#52181]

Bragard, Véronique and Stéphanie Planche. 2009. Museum practices and the Belgian colonial past: questioning the memories of an ambivalent metropole. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 2 (2) : 181–191.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

An evaluation of the role of former colonialism in glorifying the Belgian nation shows the uniqueness of the 'postcolonial' Belgian setting in which this problematic past has been discussed within the framework of a wider national identity crisis.