Arregui / Mackenthun / Wodianka DEcolonial Heritage

Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8309-8790-1
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet/DL/kein Kopierschutz

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Book Cover;1
1.1;Imprint;4
1.2;Contents;5
2;DEcolonial Heritage. Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory. Introduction (Aníbal Arregui, Gesa Mackenthun,Stephanie Wodianka);7
2.1;Heritage in the Age of Geographical and Cultural Mobility;10
2.2;Heritage Time and the Coloniality of Heritage;14
2.3;Decolonizing Heritage;17
2.4;Chapter Summaries;20
2.5;Works Cited;27
3;Chapter One. Stewarding Disputed Heritage: Private Property, Tribal Legacy, National Patrimony, Global Commons (David Lowenthal);31
3.1;Heritage Stewardship is Innately Possessive;32
3.2;Stewardship is Traditionally Parochial;33
3.3;Biblical Origins of Heritage;35
3.4;“My Country, Right or Wrong”;36
3.5;Universalizing Heritage: the Modern Mission;37
3.6;Universalizing Heritage: the Sober Reality;38
3.7;Repatriation Dilemmas and Nationalist Priorities;39
3.8;Conflicting Values: Nations, Tribes, and UNESCO;41
3.9;From Cosmopolitanism to Cultural Apartheid;46
3.10;Stewarding Universal Natural Heritage;47
3.11;Small Island Heritage Havens;48
3.12;Works Cited;50
4;Chapter Two. How Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Civilizations in the Historical Past? (Ronnie Ellenblum);55
4.1;The Length and Strength of an Affective Crisis;57
4.2;How Does a Crisis Develop? From Climate Anomaly to Social Crisis;59
4.3;Could the Administration Prevent the Scarcity?;61
4.4;The Social Consequences of Climate Crises;64
4.5;Climate Crises, Refugees, and Nomadic Migrations;66
4.6;The Limits of the Crisis;69
4.7;The End of the Crisis;70
4.8;Conclusion;71
4.9;Works Cited;72
5;Chapter Three. Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now (Karl Steel);75
5.1;Race and the Modern Viking;76
5.2;The Heterogeneous Medieval Norse;83
5.3;Against the White Fantasy;86
5.4;Works Cited;90
6;Chapter Four. Du “Patrimoine national” au “Patrimoine interculturel”: Concepts et formes d’institutionnalisation, depuis la Révolution Française jusqu’au Musée National d’Histoire de l’Immigration (Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink);97
6.1;Réflexions préliminaires, concepts, périodisations;97
6.2;Henri-Baptiste Grégoire – Idéologue national et homme politiqueré publicain dans le contexte de la Révolution Française;100
6.3;Horizons transnationaux et formes de mémoire interculturelle;107
6.4;OEuvres Citées;112
7;Chapter Five. Le patrimoine en question(s): Le moment des années 1830 au prisme des “Voyages en France” de Stendhal (Laure Lévêque);115
8;Chapter Six. From Town to Cultural Site: The Heritagization Paths for Casablanca (Romeo Carabelli);135
8.1;Imperial Development During the Protectorate;135
8.2;The Birth of a Cultural Heritage Issue;137
8.3;The “Civil Society” Came into Action;138
8.4;The International Path as an Incentive for Local Action;142
8.5;An Inescapable Corollary;143
8.6;The Preparation and Management of the Casablanca’s Candidature Dossier;145
8.7;Lessons from Casablanca;146
8.8;Works Cited;147
9;Chapter Seven. The Gift of Heritage: Making “Eco” Economical in Nigeria (Peter Probst);151
9.1;Preserving the Home of the Goddess;154
9.2;From Vertical to Horizontal Politics;159
9.3;Exchange as Mediation;163
9.4;Property Issues;166
9.5;Conclusion;171
9.6;Works Cited;172
10;Chapter Eight. Indigenous Knowledges, Ecology, and Living Heritage in North America (Kerstin Knopf);175
10.1;Introduction;176
10.2;The Documentary Film;179
10.3;Indigenous Knowledge in Western Environments;184
10.4;Indigenous and Western Concepts of Ecology;188
10.5;Indigenous Knowledges as Living Heritages;191
10.6;Works Cited;198
11;Chapter Nine. Ecological Conservation vs. Big Oil: The Case of Yasuní in Ecuador (Jürgen Vogt);203
11.1;UNESCO Biosphere Reserve;203
11.2;Ecuador;204
11.3;Economic and Political Surroundings;205
11.4;The Constitution and the Concept of a Good Living;206
11.5;Yasuní National Park and the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve;207
11.6;The Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini Initiative;209
11.7;The Failure of the ITT Initiative;210
11.8;China’s Impact on the Yasuní;211
11.9;Protest Against Oil Drilling from Inside and Outside the ITT;212
11.10;The Falling Oil Price – a New Chance for the ITT?;213
11.11;Green Light for Oil Drilling Inside the Yasuní;213
11.12;Conclusion;215
11.13;Works Cited;216
12;Chapter Ten. Naturalizing Culture in the Pyrenees: Heritage Processes and the Eternalization of Rural Societies (Camila del Mármol and Ferran Estrada);219
12.1;Introduction;219
12.2;Heritage in the Catalan Pyrenees;220
12.3;Naturalizing Culture;222
12.4;Authenticity, Past and Nature;224
12.5;Approaching Culture to Nature in Rural Contexts;226
12.6;Architecture;228
12.7;Productes de la Terra;231
12.8;Conclusions;232
12.9;Works Cited;233
13;Chapter Eleven. Panarchy and the Cross-Cultural Dynamics of Place in Nineteenth-Century America (John J. Kucich);237
13.1;Place, Materiality, and Ecocultural Contact;240
13.2;Talking Trees: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Margaret Fuller;243
13.3;Spirits of the Woods: Henry Thoreau and Joseph Nicolar;249
13.4;Panarchy and Ecocultural Contact;253
13.5;Works Cited;255
14;Chapter Twelve. Cultivating the Sky (Aníbal Arregui);257
14.1;Inheriting an Atmosphere;259
14.2;Forest-Sky Relation as Tensional Space;260
14.3;Forest-Sky Relation in an Irreversible Time;261
14.4;Cultivating (in) the Chaos;263
14.5;Climatology and Animism;264
14.6;Environmental Diplomacy;266
14.7;Decolonial Connections;268
14.8;World Heritage at the End of the World;270
14.9;Works Cited;272
15;Contributors;275