Decolonizing colonial heritage : new agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe

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    • Timm Knudsen, Britta

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Decolonizing colonial heritage : new agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe

edited by Britta Timm Knudsen ... [et al.]

(Critical heritages of Europe / series editors, Christopher Whitehead and Susannah Eckersley)

Routledge, 2022

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Description

This book includes 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. This book 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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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