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Bekele Mekonnen - The Smoking Table
The Smoking Table by Bekele Mekonnen builds a space for historical and cultural negotiation in the specific context of Italy: a platform around which to question coloniality that is still part of everyday culture in Italy today.
The smoking Table points out the colonial roots of the Eurocentric mindset which conceived anthropological and natural history museums; the exotization and racialization of the black bodies; the hegemonic narrations of civilising missions; the superiority of Europe.
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Edited by Lucrezia Cippitelli
Testi di Lucrezia Cippitelli, Edoardo Giustetto, Bekele Mekonnen, Enrica Pagella
Graphic design by Brice Delarue
2025, English/Italian, 64 pages
ISBN: 978-88-32125-17-7