DEcolonial Heritage
Printing on demand, Herstellung und Versand dieses Titels können bis zu 2 Wochen dauern.

Aníbal ArreguiGesa MackenthunStephanie Wodianka (Hrsg.)
With the editorial assistance of Lisann Wassermann

DEcolonial Heritage

Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory

2018,  Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship,  Band 10,  278  Seiten,  paperback,  34,90 €,  ISBN 978-3-8309-3790-6

Mit Beiträgen von
Aníbal ArreguiRomeo CarabelliRonnie EllenblumFerran EstradaKerstin KnopfJohn J. KucichLaure LévêqueDavid LowenthalHans-Jürgen LüsebrinkGesa MackenthunCamila del MármolPeter ProbstKarl SteelJürgen VogtStephanie Wodianka

zurück zur Übersicht

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.

Pressestimmen

A strength of the volume is that it shows that the relationships between (de)colonialism, the environment and heritage are both fertile and fragile. Like the relationships between humans and nonhumans in indigenous traditions, they must be thoughtfully tended and cultivated. [...] The volume sheds light on the complexity and richness of heritage and the environment; it raises many urgent questions and provides a few possible solutions. It will appeal to anthropologists, folklorists, sociologists, geographers, environmentalists and, indeed, to anyone interested in understanding our fluid, multicultural world.
Tiziana Soverino, in: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 1/2019, S. 109f.

Vielleicht interessiert Sie auch:

Wor(l)ds of Trauma

Wolfgang Klooß (Hrsg.)

Wor(l)ds of Trauma

Canadian and German Perspectives

Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge

Gesa MackenthunAndrea NicolasStephanie Wodianka (Hrsg.)

Travel, Agency, and the Circulation of Knowledge

Fugitive Knowledge

Andreas BeerGesa Mackenthun (Hrsg.)

Fugitive Knowledge

The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones

Agents of Transculturation

Sebastian JobsGesa Mackenthun (Hrsg.)

Agents of Transculturation

Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens