Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe
Title | Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Uta Fenske |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Colonization |
ISBN | 9783631665992 |
This volume contains novel and transnationally useful sources, as well as teaching modules for cutting-edge history lessons across European schools. Concepts from the fields of Memory Cultures, New Imperial History, Postcolonial Studies and Transnational History have been applied to the researched topics and the teaching modules.
Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe
Title | Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Uta Fenske |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9783653058963 |
This volume contains novel and transnationally useful sources, as well as teaching modules for cutting-edge history lessons across European schools. Concepts from the fields of Memory Cultures, New Imperial History, Postcolonial Studies and Transnational History have been applied to the researched topics and the teaching modules.
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage
Title | Decolonizing Colonial Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Britta Timm Knudsen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2021-09-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000473600 |
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary history, diplomacy, museum practice, the visual arts and self-generated memorial expressions in public spaces. The comparative focus of the chapters includes examples of internal colonization in Europe and extends to former European colonies, among them Shanghai, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Examining practices in a range of different contexts, the book pays particular attention to sub-national actors whose work is opening up new futures through their engagement with decolonial heritage practices in the present. The volume also considers the challenges posed by applying decolonial thinking to existing understandings of colonial heritage. Decolonizing Colonial Heritage examines the role of colonial heritage in European memory politics and heritage diplomacy. It will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of heritage and memory studies, colonial and imperial history, European studies, sociology, cultural studies, development studies, museum studies, and contemporary art. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylor francis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Europe after Empire
Title | Europe after Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Buettner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 565 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521113865 |
A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum
Title | Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Katrin Sieg |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2021-12-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472129589 |
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum examines efforts by European museums to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair. A flurry of exhibitions and the overhaul of numerous large museums in the last decade signal that an emergent colonial memory culture is now reaching broader publics. Exhibitions pose the question of what Europeans owe to those they colonized. Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum shows how museums can help visitors mourn historic violence and identify the contemporary agents, beneficiaries, victims, survivors, and resisters of colonial presence. At the same time, the book treats the museum as part of the racialized power relations that activists, academics, and artists have long protested against. This book asks whether museums have made the dream of activists, academics, and artists to build equitable futures more acceptable and more durable—or whether in packaging that dream for general audiences they curtail it. Confronting colonial violence, this book argues, pushes Europeans to face the histories of racism and urges them to envision antiracism at the global scale.
DEcolonial Heritage
Title | DEcolonial Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Aníbal Arregui |
Publisher | Waxmann Verlag |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3830987900 |
The volume attempts to triangulate three vibrant discourses of our times: It combines postcolonial and decolonial readings of cultural conflicts with assessments of ecological dimensions of those conflicts, as well as their significance within discourses on natural and cultural world heritage. The examples from four continents range from the medieval Middle East - already shaken by a convergence of ecological and social disaster - to modern imaginary constructions of medieval Vikings, the persistence of Indigenous knowledge in the Arctic, literary poetics of patrimony, and the heritage politics of Mediterranean urban architecture. Authors ask which strategies societies in developing countries use to defend their cultural and ecological uniqueness and integrity while being penetrated by environmental hazards and hegemonizing 'Western' forms of heritage culture; or how western societies construct their own past in ways that are sometimes reminiscent of traditional imaginations of a pre-modern past, petrified eternally in an 'ideal' moment of time. Colonial and historical forms of 'heritagization' of human and non-human environments, the essays show, answer to pressing emotional needs for a sense of stability. But the desire for nostalgia, frequently commodified, tends to collide with the similarly pressing need for political and economic survival in a rapidly changing world and in the face of accelerating extraction practices. Without being able to solve this dilemma, the volume makes an interdisciplinary contribution to taking intellectual stake of the asymmetrical politics and poetics of heritage and collective cultural memory.
German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory
Title | German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Volker Langbehn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 649 |
Release | 2010-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135153345 |
There is no overarching master narrative in understanding the history of German colonialism, and over the past decade, the study of Germany’s colonial past has experienced a dramatic transformation in its scope of inquiry. Influenced by new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of race, nationalism, and globalization, these new studies initiate a process of reevaluating and redefining the parameters within which German Colonialism is understood. The role of visual materials, in particular, is ideal for exploring the porousness of disciplinary boundaries, though visual culture studies pertaining to German history – and especially German colonialism – have previously been almost completely neglected. Investigating visual communication and mass culture, print culture and suggestive racial politics, racial aesthetics, racial politics and early German film, racial continuity and German film, and photography, German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory offers compelling evidence of a German society between 1884 and 1919 that produced vibrant and heterogeneous – and at times contradictory – cultures of colonialism. This collection of new essays illustrates the dramatic changes and vast array of perspectives that have recently emerged in the study of German colonialism. In documenting the latest cutting-edge research of German colonial history, the contributors to this volume prove wrong the persistent assumptions that the creation of Germany’s colonial empire did not have any lasting impact on German political and cultural life. Their essays document how colonialism in its various forms was entwined with the inner workings of modern German life and society, especially through the cultural and technical innovations of its time. In contrast to existing research, these studies show that colonial Germany played a significant role in shaping German perceptions of racial difference, influenced German support for World War I, and facilitated the construction of German nationalism. German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory uniquely demonstrates that the visual culture of colonialism is closely linked to the fascination with new modes of seeing and the enigma of visual experience that have become trademarks of modernity.