'Bilan du monde pour un monde plus déshumanisé : The 1958 Brussels World s Fair and Belgian Perceptions of the Congo
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| Titre | 'Bilan du monde pour un monde plus déshumanisé : The 1958 Brussels World s Fair and Belgian Perceptions of the Congo |
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| Type de publication | Article de périodique |
| Langue principale de la publication | anglais |
| Date de publication | April 2005 |
| Auteur |  Matthew G. STANARD |
| Titre du périodique | European History Quarterly |
| Volume ou tome | 35 |
| N° de la livraison | 2 |
| Pages de ... à (pp. x-x) | 267-298 |
| Genre | article scientifique |
| URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0265691405051467 |
| Résumé/Présentation | "This article examines the intentions behind the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi section at the 1958 World’s Fair and the reactions that its pavilions elicited. The article argues that while the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi section did demonstrate the impressive nature of Belgian accomplishments in Central Africa, it failed in its intentions to develop interest and sympathy in Belgium for the nation’s Central African empire. The 1958 World’s Fair maintained a tradition of paternalism toward Africans and buttressed a negative image of Congolese, all the while without facing up to Belgium’s colonial past. The Belgian Congo section’s village indigène continued a long practice of dehumanizing Africans at universal exhibitions by displaying them in a ‘primitive’ state to be observed by fair visitors." |
| Référence complète | Stanart, Matthew. 'Bilan du monde pour un monde plus déshumanisé' : The 1958 Brussels World's Fair and Belgian Perceptions of the Congo. In : European History Quarterly, vol. 35, issue 2, April 2005, p.267-298. |
Auteurs
Matthew G. STANARD
Biographie : Associate Professor of History at Berry College where he is the 2014 recipient of the Mary S. and Samuel Poe Carden Award for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service. He has published a number of books, journal articles, and book chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European overseas empire. He has been a participant in the National History Center's Decolonization Seminar in Washington, D.C., a Wolfsonian-FIU Fellow in Miami Beach, Florida, and a Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow in Brussels, Belgium. He lives in Rome, Georgia [...]. (https://congoinharlem.squarespace.com/bwana-kitoko/ - 2014.10)
