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Hist\u00f3rico"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib85","first-page":"171","article-title":"Decolonisation of museums in an international context","volume":"18","author":"Pennock","year":"2025","journal-title":"Rev del Comit\u00e9 Espa\u00f1ol del ICOM"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib86","series-title":"Against decolonisation: taking African agency seriously","author":"T\u00e1\u00edw\u00f2","year":"2022"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib87","series-title":"Programa de desorden absoluto","author":"Verg\u00e8s","year":"2024"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib88","series-title":"Memorias en guerra. Colonialismo y resistencia en museos y monumentos. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas","author":"Gonz\u00e1lez de Oleaga","year":"2025"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib89","series-title":"Herramientas para la descolonizaci\u00f3n de los museos: una reflexi\u00f3n para repensarse c\u00f3mo instituciones diversas y justas","author":"Gay\u00e0","year":"2025"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib90","first-page":"1","article-title":"Museos, memoria colectiva e imaginarios narrativos: La comunicaci\u00f3n participativa como estrategia para construir relatos no hegem\u00f3nicos en museos con vocaci\u00f3n social","volume":"29","author":"Rizo","year":"2022","journal-title":"Artnodes"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib91","unstructured":"Asensio M, Pol E, Rodr\u00edguez CG: Museos, el largo camino a la decolonializaci\u00f3n, in press."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib114","unstructured":"Temin subjects Mignolo\u2019s influential decolonial framework to sustained critical scrutiny, arguing that its almost exclusive focus on the epistemic \u2014 on knowledge, language, and culture as the primary sites of colonial domination \u2014 ends up dehistoricizing colonialism and sidelining questions of material power, class, and political economy. In doing so, the decolonial \u201coption\u201d risks becoming a discursive project that leaves structural inequalities intact. The article is relevant here because it articulates, from within the decolonial field itself, the risk of a turn that mistakes rhetorical transformation for substantive change \u2014 a tension that runs through the present review\u2019s own assessment of museum decolonization."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib92","unstructured":"Chen and Khoury argue that talking about decolonization in the museum context cannot be reduced to specific adjustments: it involves reconsidering how the institution operates and what place it gives, in practice, to the cultures and contributions of minorities in defining a current national identity. Focusing on the British case, the article summarizes that museums have participated in the production and legitimization of dominant narratives and that, precisely for this reason, it is necessary to open up more inclusive representations that are sustained by ongoing exchange with the communities involved. In this way, decolonization appears both as a way of taking charge of historical heritage and as a present-day task aimed at constructing more plural and equitable identity frameworks."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib93","unstructured":"The study reviews the organization and findings of a report by the Danish Ministry of Culture that evaluates the possibility of shedding light on how to strengthen museum communication around Denmark\u2019s colonial past. Baark extracts the assumptions that underpin this formulation and explores the effects of adopting the colonial history framework as opposed to other approaches. From her reading, concepts such as \u201cdecolonization\u201d or \u201cdecoloniality\u201d offer more precise tools to guide contemporary museum work, as recent research and certain curatorial lines in Europe point out. The author proposes a critical exercise, imagining how the report would change if it explicitly considered what steps Danish museums could take to undertake a process of decoloniality."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib94","unstructured":"The text starts from the premise that museum collections are not neutral, since many were formed under colonial conditions and continue to reproduce epistemic hierarchies and power relations. In this context, restoring them for decolonial purposes requires questioning their provenance, the narratives that legitimize them, and the museum\u2019s own right to preserve them. The authors therefore propose reviewing custody, opening restitution processes, sharing authority with the communities of origin, and shifting the museum from a proprietary logic to a relational logic. In short, restoration should also be understood as a political and ethical gesture, not merely as a technical intervention."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib95","unstructured":"Moschou explores the links between war, memory, and heritage based on the concept of postmemory, showing that conflicts do not merely damage material goods: they also reorder narratives, silences, and hierarchies within collective memory. The author insists that heritage associated with war is far from neutral, as it is shaped by power relations that decide what is remembered and what is not. From a decolonial perspective, the article encourages us to question these dominant frameworks and to make room for displaced memories. Along these lines, it proposes understanding heritage as a space of symbolic dispute, where decolonization means pluralizing voices and revising inherited interpretive frameworks."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib115","unstructured":"Vineeta reads Pattison\u2019s detective novel The Skull Mantra as a literary site of cultural memory, tracing how the trauma of colonial domination in Tibet is recorded and passed on through fiction. Her analysis treats the recovery of suppressed memory as a decolonial gesture \u2014 storytelling as a way of preserving an identity and a history that occupation seeks to erase \u2014 and follows the pathways of resilience and cultural reclamation that emerge from collective trauma. The case is literary rather than museological, but it is included here because it shows how memory, trauma, and decolonization work together in cultural representation, reinforcing the review\u2019s argument that decolonizing memory is as much a narrative and symbolic task as an institutional one."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib102","unstructured":"During the 2020 lockdown, docents at the African American Museum in Philadelphia took their educational work into the city and online, forming the Black Docents Collective. Millington and Mohyuddin draw on qualitative interviews to read this initiative through the collective\u2019s mission to heal Philadelphia\u2019s African American community \u2014 a healing they argue goes beyond cultural recognition to require a redistribution of the resources historically denied to Black Philadelphians. The museum here appears not as a neutral container of history but as part of a Black counterpublic where the right to heal is claimed collectively. An instructive case for thinking about how a museum\u2019s decolonial role can be enacted through community agency rather than institutional initiative."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib103","unstructured":"Koshulko examines the role of museums during the Russian occupation of Crimea since 2014 and following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, focusing on institutions in the Kyiv, Kherson, and Zhytomyr regions as well as the Museum of Crimean Tatar Heritage at the Bakhchysarai Palace. The article shows how, in a context of active military aggression and cultural erasure, museums have taken on functions that go beyond exhibition: they become sites of identity preservation, collective resilience, and spiritual sustenance for communities under occupation. Relevant here because it offers one of the most direct illustrations available of what it means for a museum to serve a decolonial function under conditions of actual colonial violence."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib104","unstructured":"Jungsberg and colleagues map the dominant policy narratives in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) at a moment of rapid environmental, socio-economic, and political change. They find four main narratives organized around independence, within which resilience tends to appear as a by-product of economic growth rather than a goal in itself, and argue that national policy engages too little with local realities and knowledge. Though the article is about climate and governance rather than museums, it is relevant here for the way it shows how the framing of memory and knowledge is bound up with questions of self-determination \u2014 and who gets to define a community\u2019s future."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib105","unstructured":"Through three Indonesian novels spanning three decades \u2014 Banda Neira (1995), Rahasia Meede (2007), and Rasina (2023) \u2014 Sudibyo, Andalas, and Taufiqurrohman trace how the trauma of Dutch colonialism lives on in collective memory. Their argument is that dispossession of land, forced labour, and excessive taxation produced a trauma that is not individual but social, tearing at the sociocultural fabric of entire communities. Concepts of collective memory, collective trauma, and postmemory anchor the analysis, showing how fiction sustains and reworks colonial memory across generations. Relevant here because it confirms that decolonizing memory happens well beyond the museum, in the cultural forms through which societies confront their colonial past."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib96","unstructured":"The author maintains that, in the British heritage sphere, decolonization inevitably involves revising the lexicon used to describe, catalog, and interpret collections. The article clarifies that so-called \u201cinclusive description\u201d does not seek to alter or eliminate the original sources, but rather to provide context and update them to prevent the continued reproduction of discriminatory terms (gender, race, or disability) linked to colonial hierarchies. Based on the work carried out at the National Library of Scotland, the text proposes practical tools and formulates ethical criteria to guide these decisions. Its argument is simple: language is not neutral; describing implies exercising power, and assuming that responsibility is essential to shaping more rigorous and socially egalitarian institutions."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib106","unstructured":"Paul examines how French museums are navigating the tension between historical recognition of colonial provenance and the institutional logics that continue to govern collection management. The article looks at repatriation debates and changing curatorial practices, arguing that in the French context these processes are particularly fraught given the republican framework\u2019s resistance to ethnically or historically differentiated claims. Progress is real but slow, and tends to be conditioned by diplomatic and legal considerations rather than by the ethical demands of source communities. Useful here as a reminder that decolonization in museum practice is always a situated process, shaped by the specific political frameworks within which institutions operate."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib107","unstructured":"Estudiantin, a former curator at the National Museum of Indonesia with nearly twenty years of experience, reflects on the slow and contested process of decolonizing an institution shaped by centuries of Dutch colonial rule. Her argument is that, despite independence, the museum\u2019s narrative and display logics remained largely unchanged for decades, and that genuine transformation requires much more than renaming or aesthetic revision \u2014 it demands rethinking who produces knowledge and what counts as national heritage. The title\u2019s insistence on decolonization as \u201cnever-ending\u201d is not pessimistic but realistic: a reminder that structural change in museums is measured in generations, not projects."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib97","unstructured":"The article examines the problems faced by museums when attempting to represent traditional culture, which has historically been interpreted through a Western lens, largely because these narratives are based on deeply entrenched and functional stereotypes. From there, Bounia addresses the decolonization of representations of the \u201cself\u201d and the \u201cothers\u201d and argues that epistemological decolonization cannot be approached as an immediate rupture, but rather as a complex process that is necessarily gradual and open-ended."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib108","unstructured":"Taking the 2022 ICOM theme \u2018The Power of Museums\u2019 as her starting point, Russi reflects on what ethnographic collections can actually do: combat prejudice, promote cultural and religious diversity, and support human rights, in the context of decolonization in Brazil. Two cases ground the argument \u2014 a photographic collection of Indigenous peoples at the Museu Paranaense in Curitiba, and collections related to Afro-Brazilian communities and practitioners of Umbanda and Candombl\u00e9 in Rio de Janeiro. What makes the article useful here is precisely that it moves from abstract claims about museum power to concrete practice, showing how the recognition of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and religious heritage can make the ethnographic museum into an instrument of decolonial reparation."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib109","unstructured":"Ruiz Zevallos reflects on a collaborative filmmaking experience with Indigenous students at the intercultural University of Nopoki in the Peruvian Amazon, drawing on decolonial theory, critical interculturality, and participatory visual methodologies. The article is candid about the friction between theoretical frameworks and the experiential knowledge of Indigenous participants, and about the ways collaboration itself reshaped the research design. Though the setting is academic rather than museological, the piece is relevant here as an illustration of what genuine epistemic partnership looks like in practice \u2014 and of how far most institutions, including museums, still are from achieving it."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib110","unstructured":"Mandelkatz writes from her position as founder of the Women\u2019s Museum Costa Rica to ask how exhibitions can serve as instruments of decolonial gender pedagogy. Her analysis centres on the online exhibition \u2018Memories and resistances: Women, artists, Afro-America and Caribbean stories\u2019, exploring how the works make Afro-descendant women visible as complex political subjects \u2014 not passive figures \u2014 and arguing that the exhibition worked as a form of feminist decoloniality by confronting the intertwined matrix of gender and racial oppression. The article is relevant here for what it suggests about curatorial practice as an active reshaping of memory, and about the museum as a space where colonial and patriarchal narratives can be directly challenged."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib111","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kaniecka looks at the Museum of Literature and Performing Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo as a case of \u2018difficult heritage\u2019, asking what it can contribute to the formation of a shared cultural identity in a country defined by national heterogeneity and the weight of recent conflict. The study focuses on 2013\u20132023, though it also draws on the institution\u2019s longer history. It is of interest here because it shifts the discussion of decolonization and difficult heritage to a post-conflict European context, and because it shows clearly how a museum\u2019s handling of memory can either deepen divisions or help build something more inclusive.","DOI":"10.11649\/sm.3213"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib112","unstructured":"Percival follows the decolonial practices surrounding a rare eighteenth-century portrait of a Black sitter at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter \u2014 a work retitled in 2023 from \u2018Portrait of an African\u2019 to \u2018Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit\u2019. Tracing the debates that preceded the change, the article considers how renaming, reinterpretation, and new historical research on Black communities in eighteenth-century Britain alter the meaning of the work and its place in the museum. The value of this case for the present review lies in how it makes decolonization tangible at the level of a single object: decisions about naming, attribution, and interpretation become acts of historical recognition and an attempt to restore dignity to a figure who had been anonymised."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib98","unstructured":"Dani examines how European ethnographic museums continue to be influenced by colonial legacies that affect their collections, exhibition narratives, and power relations. The author insists that decolonization is particularly difficult because museums, in their historical configuration, were born within the colonial framework. Based on a comparison of five institutions, he proposes five areas of analysis: visibility, inclusivity, decentering, education, and transparency. He argues that, given the limited feasibility of a complete transformation, it is necessary to work with minimum standards as a starting point: explicitly recognizing colonial origins, training staff, incorporating multiple narratives, reviewing the role of curatorship, and eliminating harmful practices. The aim is to support gradual change based on institutional responsibility and collaboration."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib99","unstructured":"The text argues that heritage cannot be considered separately from colonialism, given that the categories and criteria that determine what counts as \u201cheritage\u201d have been constructed from Western frameworks that were presented as universal. From this premise, they maintain that decolonization consists of questioning the ontological and epistemological foundations of the heritage field itself. The link between heritage and decoloniality requires revisiting who has the authority to define value, memory, or authenticity, and opening the debate to different modes of knowledge, other temporalities, and other ways of relating to the past beyond the modern Western framework."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib100","unstructured":"The authors start from the idea that European ethnographic museums continue to be marked by colonial legacies that condition what is collected, how it is narrated, and who holds the authority to produce knowledge. Although they recognize the advances driven by critical museology and postcolonial debates, they warn that total decolonization is difficult to sustain, since the museum is a historically Western institution. They propose, like other authors (e.g., Dani, 2025), a shared framework of minimum standards: historical awareness, training, multivocality, revision of the custodial role, and elimination of harmful practices, as a pragmatic basis for moving toward more critical, inclusive, and responsible institutions."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib101","unstructured":"Grasso and Porretti describe how the MAET, despite its origins linked to racist and colonial scientific discourse, initiated a process of decolonization following the closure of its permanent exhibition. The transformation goes beyond reinterpreting the objects: it incorporates a critical review of archives, the identification of silences and epistemological violence that shaped the collections, and a questioning of the traditional distribution of power in the museum. Through participatory practices, collaborations with migrant communities, and educational projects, the institution is experimenting with ways to redistribute the production of knowledge and reinterpret its colonial legacy from a pluralistic and critical perspective."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330_bib113","unstructured":"Pennock, Co-Chair of ICOM\u2019s Working Group on Decolonisation and Senior Advisor at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, offers a practitioner\u2019s overview of where the international museum community stands on decolonization. Her account is notably sober: awareness of the problem is high, but progress is uneven and conditioned by institutional type, collection content, and geography. She stresses the importance of appropriate timing, of respect for all parties involved, and of recognizing that decolonization looks very different depending on whether you are working in a former colonial power or a formerly colonized nation. Useful here as a grounded corrective to more triumphalist readings of the decolonial turn, and as a reminder that the gap between discourse and institutional practice remains wide."}],"container-title":["Current Opinion in Psychology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S2352250X26000680?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S2352250X26000680?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,4]],"date-time":"2026-08-04T15:57:12Z","timestamp":1785859032000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2352250X26000680"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,10]]},"references-count":115,"alternative-id":["S2352250X26000680"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330","relation":{},"ISSN":["2352-250X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2352-250X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,10]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"The decolonization of museums","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"Current Opinion in Psychology","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.copsyc.2026.102330","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"\u00a9 2026 The Authors. 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