A reflection on post-coloniality, decolonization and virtual museums. The case of the Virtual Museum of Lusofonia

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https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v18i54.2528

Abstract

The article deals with questions about cultural policies and forms of musealization and how these issues adapt to the virtualization process of museums, whose intermediation of symbolic and cultural goods makes understanding the phenomenon more complex. As a theoretical framework, it uses the post-coloniality and decoloniality, which point out how the discourse originated in colonial empires must be overcome, and interculturality, which dismantles hate speech and favors effective symbolic exchanges between the global North and South. Finally, it brings considerations about cultural consumption circumscribed to museological spaces, specifically in virtual museums, which the case study is the Virtual Museum of Lusophony (MVL), an environment organized according to the post-colonial concept of Lusophony, and which recently composes one of the museums from Google Arts & Culture.

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Vítor de Sousa, Universidade do Minho (UMinho)

PhD in Communication Sciences (Intercultural Com-munication) from the University of Minho. Master (specialization in Media Education) and Bachelor (specialization in Information and Journalism) in the same area. Among his research interests are issues around national identity, cultural studies, media education and theories of Journalism. He is a resear-cher at the CECS, where he integrates the Cultural Studies Group, a member of Cultures Past & Present Project – “Memories, cultures and identities: how the past weights on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?” (FCT/Aga Khan) and of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony. In the present article, the author has refined the discussions on museology, post-colo-niality and Lusophonies.

Edson Capoano, Universidade do Minho (UMinho)

PhD in Sciences from PROLAM-USP. Master in Communi-cation and Semiotics and Bachelor in Journalism from PUC-SP. Researcher at the Center for Studies in Communication and Society (CECS) at the Univer-sity of Minho. In the present article, the author has pointed out similarities and differences between post-colonial studies (Latin American perspective).

Pedro Daniel Rodrigues Costa, Universidade do Minho (UMinho)

The author has completed his BA in Socio-logy from University of Minho in 2007. He completed his Master’s Thesis in Sociology of Work and Organizations at the Institute of Social Sciences at the same University in 2009. The PhD was obtained in 2013. Since 2008, he is a researcher at the CECS – Center for Studies in Communication and Society (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal). In the present article, the author wrote the introduction, made the textual bindings, as well as the critical and revisio-nal adjustments of the text.

Carlos Alberto Máximo Pimenta, Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)

PhD in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Development, Technologies and Society (PPG/DTecS), at the Federal Univer-sity of Itajubá. In the present article, the author wrote the introduction, made the textual bindings, as well as the critical and revisional adjustments of the text.

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Published

2022-04-29

How to Cite

Sousa, V. de, Capoano, E., Costa, P. D. R., & Máximo Pimenta, C. A. (2022). A reflection on post-coloniality, decolonization and virtual museums. The case of the Virtual Museum of Lusofonia. Comunicação Mídia E Consumo, 19(54). https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v18i54.2528

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Vol. 19 No. 54 (2022): JANEIRO/ABRIL

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