Decolonizing Colonial Heritage

New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe
Herausgeber: Knudsen, Britta Timm; Oldfield, John; Zabunyan, Elvan; Buettner, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Critical Heritages of Europe
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780367569617
• ISBN-10: 0367569612
• Artikelnr.: 67825812

Autorenporträt

Britta Timm Knudsen is Professor of Culture, Media and Experience Economy, School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark. John Oldfield is Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull, UK. Elizabeth Buettner is Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Elvan Zabunyan is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Rennes, France, and an art critic.

Inhaltsangabe

Lists of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface;
Introduction; Part I: Haunted Worlds: Ghosts of the Colonial Past: Chapter
1: Europe and Its Entangled Colonial Pasts: Europeanizing the 'Imperial
Turn; Chapter 2: 1917, Brexit and Imperial Nostalgia: A Longing for the
Future; Chapter 3: Spectres of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town;
Chapter 4: Decolonizing the Narrative of Portuguese Empire: Life Stories of
African Presence, Heritage and Memory; Chapter 5: Decolonizing Warsaw: The
Multiple Afterlives of 'Ali'; Part II: Contemporary Heritage Practices: New
Agents, Urban Space Events, Intercultural Encounters: (i) Museums and
curatorship: Chapter 6: Curating Colonial Heritage in Amsterdam, Warsaw and
Shanghai's Museums: No Single Road to Decolonization; Chapter 7: The
Influence of Western Colonial Culture on Shanghai: A Case Study of the
'Modern Shanghai' Exhibition at the Shanghai History Museum; Chapter 8:
Decolonizing Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), The
Turning Point of Curatorship; (ii) Echoes of colonial heritage, visual
culture and site-specific art: Chapter 9: Sensitive Memories at a World
Heritage Site: Silencing and Resistance at the Valongo Wharf; Chapter 10:
Traces of Contempt and Traces of Self-Esteem: Deconstructing our Toxic
Colonial Legacy; Chapter 11: Reframing the Colonial in Postcolonial Lisbon:
Placemaking and the Aestheticization of Interculturality; Chapter 12:
Aesthetics and Colonial Heritage: An Interview with Artists Based in
Marseille; Chapter 13: Enslaved Bodies, Entangled Sites and the Memory of
Slavery in Cape Town: The Meeting of the Dead and the Living; Part
III:Imagining Decolonial Futures: Chapter 14: Decolonial Countervisuality;
Chapter 15: New Diplomacy and Decolonial Heritage Practices; Chapter 16:
Decolonial Voices, Colonialism and the Limits of European Liberalism: The
European Question Revisited; Index.