Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide
a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the
parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what
it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and
intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In
this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the
entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of
Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European
colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field
of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the
chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of
philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the
colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial
practice in the present. The book concludes with a bibliography
that serves as a foundation for a coherent and systematic critical
historiography. Bringing together insights from scholars working in
different disciplines, regions, and institutions, Is Byzantine
Studies a Colonialist Discipline? urges practitioners to reckon
with the discipline’s colonialist, imperialist, and white
supremacist history. In addition to the editors, the contributors
to this volume include Andrea Myers Achi, Nathanael Aschenbrenner,
Bahattin Bayram, Averil Cameron, Stephanie R. Caruso, Åžebnem
Dönbekci, Hugh G. Jeffery, Anthony Kaldellis, Matthew Kinloch,
Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Maria Mavroudi, Zeynep Olgun, Arietta
Papaconstantinou, Jake Ransohoff, Alexandra Vukovich, Elizabeth
Dospěl Williams, and Arielle Winnik.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
