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.

Veröffentlichungen bei WAXMANN:

Embattled Excavations

Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past

2021, 240 Seiten, broschiert, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-4386-0

.doi: https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830993865

DEcolonial Heritage

Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory

2018, 278 Seiten, paperback, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3790-6

Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge

2017, 316 Seiten, paperback, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3567-4

Fugitive Knowledge

The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones

2015, 232 Seiten, paperback, 34,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3281-9

.doi: https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830982814

Agents of Transculturation

Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens

2013, 316 Seiten, paperback, with numerous illustrations, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-3002-0

.doi: https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830980025

Entangled Knowledge

Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference

2012, 310 Seiten, paperback, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2729-7

.doi: https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830977292

Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses

2010, 296 Seiten, broschiert, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2375-6

.doi: https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830973751

The Fuzzy Logic of Encounter

New Perspectives on Cultural Contact

2009, 232 Seiten, paperback, 29,90 €, ISBN 978-3-8309-2124-0