Cultural Heritage and Slavery : Perspectives from Europe

• Autore: Conermann Stephan
• Pubblicazione: Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2023; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.69
• Soggetto topico: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
• Soggetto non controllato: Postcolonialism; decolonialization; diversity
• Altri autori: RauhutClaudia SchmiederUlrike ZeuskeMichael
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Dealing with Dissonant Cultural Heritage: Traces of Enslavers in European Cityscapes -- Black Survivors: Unfreedom and the Collapse of Slavery in British Jamaica. New Research at the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery -- Whose Heritage? Slavery, Country Houses, and the “Culture Wars” in England -- A Public Site to Embody the National Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: Provisional Analysis of a Mnemonic Disputatio in Contemporary France -- The Cultural Heritage Dilemma of Afro-Dutch Youth -- The Stamp of Slavery on Nineteenth-Century Spanish Urbanism -- The Cultural Heritage of Slavery in the Nordic Countries -- ‘The First Global Players’: The Welsers of Augsburg in the Enslavement Trade and the City’s Memory Culture -- History and Public Debates about Racial Slavery in Denmark -- German Slavery and Its Legacies: On History, Activism, and a Black German Past -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. In this volume, we address this dissonant cultural heritage in Europe, with a strong focus on the tangible remains of enslavement in the Atlantic space in the continent. This may concern, for instance, the residences of royal, noble, and bourgeois enslavers; charitable and cultural institutions, universities, banks, and insurance companies, financed by the traders and owners of enslaved Africans; merchants who dealt in sugar, coffee, and cotton; and the owners of factories who profited from exports to the African and Caribbean markets related to Atlantic slavery.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural Heritage and Slavery
• ISBN: 3-11-133149-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996556964803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Dependency and Slavery Studies