Decolonial Memories

Episode 04 (English) with Dr Laibor Kalanga Moko


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In this episode, Dr Laibor Kalanga Moko from Tanzania talks about his work as scholar with Freie Universität Berlin in the Collaborative Research Area "Affective Societies", Sub-Project "Contested Property". He was recently awarded with the Ernst Reuter Prize for his doctoral dissertation "Sensing the Colonial Order of Things: Maasai Materialities and Ethnographic Museums" (Supervision: PD Dr Paola Ivanov, Prof. Dr Kai Kresse). Findings from this research are summarized in the article (open access) "The (In)Alienability of Objects and Colonial Acquisition: The Case of Maasai Ethnographic Collections at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin". His present work focuses on the topic "Contested Property, Affective Dissonance and Relational Ethics in Museum Collaborations".

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Decolonial MemoriesBy Thomas Fues