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.
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
bundle available
