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

"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 li...

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Other Authors: Timm Knudsen, Britta (Editor), Oldfield, J. R. (Editor), Buettner, Elizabeth (Editor), Zabunyan, Elvan (Editor)
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon, [England] Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2022.
Series:Critical heritages of Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Europe and its entangled colonial pasts : Europeanizing the 'imperial turn' / by Elizabeth Buttner
  • Brexit and imperial nostalgia : a longing for the future / by Christoffer Kølvraa
  • Spectres of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town / by Nick Shepherd
  • Decolonizing the narrative of Portuguese empire : life stories of African presence, heritage and memory / by Crisano Gianolla, Giuseppina Raggi and Lorena Sancho Querol
  • Decolonizing Warsaw : the multiple afterlives of 'Ali' / by Lukasz Bukowiecki
  • Curating colonial heritage in Amsterdam, Warsaw and Shanghai's museums : no single road to decolonization / by Csilla E. Ariese, Laura Pozzi and Joanna Wawrzyniak
  • The influence of Western colonial culture on Shanghai : a case study of the 'Modern Shanghai' exhibition at the Shanghai History Museum / by Lu Jiansong
  • Decolonizing contemporary art exhibitions : Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), the turning point of curatorship / by Elvan Zabunyan
  • Sensitive memories at a world heritage site : silencing and resistance at the Valongo Wharf / by Márcia Chuva, Laila Bianchi Aguiar and Brenda Coelho Fonseca
  • Traces of contempt and traces of self-esteem : deconstructing our toxic colonial legacy / by Dalila Mahdjoub
  • Reframing the colonial in postcolonial Lisbon : placemaking and the aesthecization of interculturality / by Paulo Peixoto and Claudino Ferreira
  • Aesthetics and colonial heritage : an interview with artists based in Marseille / by Badr El Hammami, Mohammed Laouli and Marine Schütz
  • Enslaved bodies, entangled sites and the memory of slavery in Cape Town : the meeting of the dead and the living / by Meghna Singh
  • Decolonial countervisuality / by Britta Timm Knudsen with Sorana Munsya, Benjamine Laini Lusalusa and Stephanie Collingwoode Williams
  • New diplomacy and decolonial heritage practices / by Crisna E. Clopot, Casper Andersen and John Oldfield
  • Decolonial voices, colonialism and the limits of European liberalism : the European question revisited / by Jan Ifversen.