Negotiating decolonisation?: memories, places, and gender identities in Casa de la Libertad Sucre, Bolivia

Abstract

Heritage has become an area to dispute and display memories of other voices in state-building, citizenship and official history. In postcolonial contexts, heritagisation may encompass memories, places, voices of multiple collective subjects bringing up a frame to make visible diverse identities and different practices of resistance to the colonial system other than the hegemonic narratives. This chapter discusses a case of recent heritage-making around independence, decolonisation and nation-building in Casa de la Libertad (Sucre, Bolivia), the first historical monumental place of Bolivia in a UNESCO World Heritage City. Understanding the museum as a site of negotiation, the aim is to underline the cultural governance and politics of representation around diverse narratives and identities in Latin America.