The Heterogeneous Temporalities of Russian
Colonialism
Parse Journal
On the Question of Exhibition, Part 2
Spring - Summer, 2021
This article discusses the temporalities produced
by museum representations of Indigenous people. I use three objects from
the museum collection as “interscalar vehicles”—an amphibious plane, a
bronze sculpture, and a carved tusk—to understand Russian
settler-colonialism temporalities. Using objects as starting points
allows me to connect museum representations with more comprehensive
Russian colonial histories.
Settler Colonialism, Visual Culture