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Relational Ethics and Restitution Processes in Transnational Museum Geographies and Care Practices
This study investigates how museum restitution processes can be framed through a relational ethics of care. It explores the potential for these processes to foster transnational circuits of learning and cultural exchange.
In plain words
When museums return objects to the places they came from, could the process be built on care and relationships? This study asks whether returning objects this way can create shared learning between countries and help address harm from colonial times.
Primary research question
How does the implementation of a relational ethics of care transform museum restitution processes into transnational learning circuits?
Knowledge gap
What remains worth asking
The source suggests that there is a need to further explore how restorative actions in museums can address colonial violence while fostering new geographical relationships.
Potential contribution
Why it may matter
This research contributes to critical museum studies by linking restorative justice with spatial theories of care.
Academic placement
Academic fields and topic tags
Study frame: Transnational museum institutions involved in cultural heritage restitution. · Method signals: Critical discourse analysis, Comparative institutional study, Ethnographic observation
Possible study pathways
One question, different levels
Research master’s
Analysis of museum policy and restorative justice frameworks.
Doctoral
Development of relational ethics models for cultural institutions.
- originality
- Moderate
- methodology
- Moderate
- Data access
- Moderate
- ethics
- Advanced
Quality and audit
82/100 quality
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- Requires access to museum archives or policy documentation.
- Interdisciplinary approach required.
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APA 7 source
Warren, S. (2025). Rethinking Museum Geographies: Towards Restitution and a Relational Ethics of Care in Legacies of Colonialism. Geography Compass, 19(1), Article e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70014
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