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“…Through a transnational lens, it addresses the need to decolonize both theoretical frameworks and practical applications of political ideas. The book draws upon postcolonial and decolonial thinkers to demonstrate how political concepts can serve as tools of oppression, while highlighting efforts to decolonize these concepts to foster genuinely postcolonial academic and political contexts. …”

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“…A pesar de ello, estos modestos equipamientos suelen estar minimizados desde el punto de vista presupuestario y vilipendiados con la etiqueta de ±cultura local La obra analiza el contexto histórico en el que surgieron los museos locales y la problemática a la que se ven sujetos estos equipamientos culturales, aportando para finalizar instrumentos para la interpretación de nuestro patrimonio y algunos recursos museográficos e ideas museológicas innovadoras…”

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