Cultural Heritage and Slavery

Perspectives from Europe

verfasst von: Stephan Conermann, Claudia Rauhut, Ulrike Schmieder, Michael Zeuske
Abstract: In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent.
Organisationseinheit(en): Historisches Seminar
Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies
Externe Organisation(en): Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)
Typ: Sammelwerk
Anzahl der Seiten: 344
Publikationsdatum: 2024
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Sozialwissenschaften (insg.), Geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer (insg.)
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung: SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492 (Zugang: Offen)

BibTeX

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title = "Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe",
abstract = "In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent.",
keywords = "Kulturerbe, Sklaverei, Europa, Erinnerungsorte, Cultural Heritage, Slavery. Europe, Sites of Memorry",
editor = "Stephan Conermann and Claudia Rauhut and Ulrike Schmieder and Michael Zeuske",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Stephan Conermann, Claudia Rauhut, Ulrike Schmieder and Michael Zeuske, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1515/9783111331492",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783111327785",
series = "Dependency and Slavery ",
publisher = "de Gruyter",
address = "Germany",
edition = "1",
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