{"id":162,"date":"2026-04-13T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=162"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:44:18","slug":"the-occidental-museum-and-its-neo-orientalized-other","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/chapter\/the-occidental-museum-and-its-neo-orientalized-other\/","title":{"rendered":"The Occidental Museum and its Neo-Orientalized \u201cOther\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a not-so-distant past, I offered a genealogy tracing the evolution of the Occidental museum as a passage from the 20th-century modernist model to a 21st-century neoliberal institution. The aim of this paper is to consider the Occidental museum and its neo-Orientalized \u201cOther\u201d in the present moment, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, as museums are cautiously reopening under a new set of regulations, and the post- COVID-19 reality remains elusive. More precisely, my aim has been to consider the current status of the Occidental museum. The first part of this text presents a genealogy of museums in the post-WWII world, before COVID-19. The second part discusses the symbolic, imaginary, and real implications of the suddenly \u201cdead\u201d museum. What does this mean for the museum\u2019s surviving hegemonic practices in the post-COVID-19 future? The main thesis posited in this paper is that the \u201cOther\u201d multiplies within the museum to the extent that the Occidental museum becomes \u201cthe other\u201d to itself; however, I maintain that even this transformation does not absolve the Occidental museum of its responsibility to critically reflect on proper hegemonic practices and the processes of racialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a not-so-distant past, I offered a genealogy tracing the evolution of the Occidental museum as a passage from the 20th-century modernist model to a 21st-century neoliberal institution. The aim of this paper is to consider the Occidental museum and its neo-Orientalized \u201cOther\u201d in the present moment, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":112,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-162","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}