Entangled Heritages - Postcolonial Perspectives on the Uses of the Past in Latin America (Hardcover)

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where the meaning of heritage is negotiated and contested. Exploring the relevance of the politics of heritage and the uses of memory in the consolidation of these nation states, as well as in the current disputes over resistances, hidden memories, undermined pasts, or the politics of nostalgia, this book seeks to seize the local/global dimensions around heritage.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
Release date:	July 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Olaf Kaltmeier • Mario Rufer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-7543-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-4724-7543-7
Barcode:	9781472475435

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