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Inside the Box 2023
Can objects in museums be used to heal social relationships that have been broken?
Museums are struggling with the fact that many of their objects were collected in the colonial period. Decolonization is often the label under which this reckoning is carried out. But what does decolonization mean in practice?
To discuss this, we have invited Raymond Peroti, a hip-hop artist and film maker. His multifaceted work challenges the mental boundaries between histories, identities and cultures of Sweden, the Caribbean, and the wider world. We also have with us today Nanette Snoep, an anthropologist, curator, and Director of Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. She is a central player in reshaping the way we envision the future of museums. Today’s moderator is Michael Barrett, curator at the National Museums of World Culture.
In cooperation with Goethe-Institut Schweden and French Institute in Sweden, supported by the Franco-German Cultural Fund.
Producent: Adam Norberg och Rebecka Bergström. Klipp: Petter Utbult
International Journal of Volga - Ural and Turkestan Studies
Most reporting on war produces either a 30,000-foot geopolitical analysis, in which real people barely figure, or hair-raising dispatches from the front lines, covering the the kind of violence that war correspondents self-protectively call "bang bang."
Lost in the middle are questions that could be more important: What is it like for regular people to live through war? What does war mean to them? What can drive them to morph from civilian to combatant?
Iranian-born journalist Khazar Fatemi knows the answers to those questions firsthand. Her parents were part of an underground Kurdish resistance and fled Iran while Khazar was still a baby, becoming refugees and spending stretches of time in Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. When Khazar was ten, her parents fled again, this time from the mujahideen in Afghanistan, and they were lucky enough to find asylum in Sweden.
After living her first decade as a child refugee, Khazar has spent nearly the last decade risking her life crisscrossing conflict zones, talking to the women and children whose lives have been upended by war, and whose voices are almost always lost in the din of violence.
Her reporting produced the 2010 documentary "Where My Heart Beats" and now "Women Of War," a series of short video dispatches for The Huffington Post. The series takes you beyond the battlefield, from Afghanistan to Turkey, Syria and Iraq. You'll watch as women debate amongst themselves how to invest a government grant, fight to stay in school, learn a martial art and express themselves through graffiti. You'll go to Sinjar Mountain and meet Yazidi women determined to retake their homeland from the Islamic State, or die trying.
During the course of her reporting, Khazar visited a refugee camp in eastern Turkey. In a dispatch for HuffPost, she wrote about refugee children who, along with the many more existential horrors they faced, had no toys to help distract them. Khazar then helped launched a crowdfunding c
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