DEcolonial Heritage

Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8309-3790-6
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 10, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Reihe: Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arregui, Aníbal

Mackenthun, Gesa

Wodianka, Stephanie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wassermann, Lisann

Arregui, Aníbal

Carabelli, Romeo

Ellenblum, Ronnie

Estrada, Ferran

Knopf, Kerstin

Kucich, John J.

Lévêque, Laure

Lowenthal, David

Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen

Mackenthun, Gesa

del Mármol, Camila

Probst, Peter

Steel, Karl

Vogt, Jürgen

Wodianka, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Über Autor(innen)

Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink is Professor of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at Saarland University. He holds a PhD in Romance Philology (Bayreuth, Germany) and in History (EHESS, France) and is co-director of the International Research Training Group Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural
Spaces. His research fields concern cultural transfers between France and Germany and between Europe and non-European societies, conceptual history, francophone literatures and medias (Québec, Sub-Saharan Africa), and the theory of intercultural
communication. Recent books: (co-edited with Christoph Vatter): Multiculturalisme et diversité culturelle dans les médias au Canada et au Québec (2013); (co-edited with Aurélien Boivin and Jacques Walter): Régionalismes littéraires et artistiques comparés.
Québec/Canada – Europe (2014); Le livre aimé du peuple. Les almanachs québécois de 1777 à nos jours (2014); (co-edited with Marc-André and Clorinda Donato): Jesuit Accounts on the Colonial Americas. Intercultural Transfers, intellectual Disputes, and
Textualities (2014); (co-edited with Sylvère Mbondobari): Villes coloniales/métropoles postcoloniales. Représentations littéraires, images médiatiques et regards croisés (2015); (co-edited with Michel Espagne): Transferts de savoirs sur l’Afrique (2015).

Vogt, Jürgen
Jürgen Vogt ist Professor für Erziehungswissenschaft unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Musikpädagogik an der Universität Hamburg. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich Musikpädagogischer Erziehungs- und Bildungsphilosophie.

Mackenthun, Gesa
Gesa Mackenthun is professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include Metaphors of Dispossession. American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire (1997), Fictions of the Black Atlantic (2004), and the co-edited volumes Decolonizing ‘Prehistory’. Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America (with Christen Mucher, 2021), Sea Changes. Historicizing the Ocean (with Bernhard Klein, 2004), Entangled Knowledge. Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference (with Klaus Hock, 2012), and DEcolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures and the Asymmetries of Memory (with Aníbal Arregui, 2017). Her current research deals with representations of the transatlantic history of enclosures, evictions, and ecocide.

Wodianka, Stephanie
Stephanie Wodianka is Professor of Romance Literature at Rostock University, Germany since 2010. Her research interests – documented in several monographies and books – include representations, practices and theories of the collective memory (littérature, films, chanson française), the European meditative literature of the seventeenth century, the relations between aesthetics and the construction of (trans)cultural identities (especially in the context of the Grand tour), and concepts and poetics of modern myth. Since 2013 she has been chairing the interdisciplinary doctoral program on Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship, and she is currently working on a project on cultural semiotics of the cardinal directions, Localisations de l’Europe: sémiotiques culturelles des points cardinaux, edited by Stephanie Wodianka and Sebastian Neumeister (2016).

Mackenthun, Gesa
Gesa Mackenthun is professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include Metaphors of Dispossession. American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire (1997), Fictions of the Black Atlantic (2004), and the co-edited volumes Decolonizing ‘Prehistory’. Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America (with Christen Mucher, 2021), Sea Changes. Historicizing the Ocean (with Bernhard Klein, 2004), Entangled Knowledge. Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference (with Klaus Hock, 2012), and DEcolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures and the Asymmetries of Memory (with Aníbal Arregui, 2017). Her current research deals with representations of the transatlantic history of enclosures, evictions, and ecocide.

Wodianka, Stephanie
Stephanie Wodianka is Professor of Romance Literature at Rostock University, Germany since 2010. Her research interests – documented in several monographies and books – include representations, practices and theories of the collective memory (littérature, films, chanson française), the European meditative literature of the seventeenth century, the relations between aesthetics and the construction of (trans)cultural identities (especially in the context of the Grand tour), and concepts and poetics of modern myth. Since 2013 she has been chairing the interdisciplinary doctoral program on Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship, and she is currently working on a project on cultural semiotics of the cardinal directions, Localisations de l’Europe: sémiotiques culturelles des points cardinaux, edited by Stephanie Wodianka and Sebastian Neumeister (2016).