New GloCo Blog Post – What Does Conservation Stand For?

As the GloCo project marks its second anniversary, Noémie Étienne reflects on the politics, practices, and power structures embedded in museum conservation. Her newly released text, “Vulnerability and Care of Collections”, delves into global traditions, postcolonial critiques, and Indigenous approaches to conservation – challenging Eurocentric definitions and rethinking what it means to care for cultural heritage.

Now available on our GloCo blog, this piece lays the groundwork for questions we’ve been discussing in GloCo since the beginning.

📖 Read the full article here.

🔗 Related Publications, both co-edited by Lotte Arndt and Noémie Etienne:
Contested Conservation. Museums & Social Issues, Vol. 17, 2024
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymsi20/17/1-2

On the Threshold of Conservation, Troubles dans les collections, no. 7, 2024
https://troublesdanslescollections.fr/numeros/contested-conservation/