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This book includes contributions from academics, artists and
heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage
practices in politics, contemporary history, diplomacy, museum
practice, the visual arts and self-generated memorial expressions
in public spaces. The comparative focus of the chapters includes
examples of internal colonization in Europe and extends to former
European colonies, among them Shanghai, Cape Town, and Rio de
Janeiro. Examining practices in a range of different contexts, the
book pays particular attention to sub-national actors whose work is
opening up new futures through their engagement with decolonial
heritage practices in the present. The volume also considers the
challenges posed by applying decolonial thinking to existing
understandings of colonial heritage. This book examines the role of
colonial heritage in European memory politics and heritage
diplomacy. It will be of interest to academics and students working
in the fields of heritage and memory studies, colonial and imperial
history, European studies, sociology, cultural studies, development
studies, museum studies, and contemporary art.
This book includes contributions from academics, artists and
heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage
practices in politics, contemporary history, diplomacy, museum
practice, the visual arts and self-generated memorial expressions
in public spaces. The comparative focus of the chapters includes
examples of internal colonization in Europe and extends to former
European colonies, among them Shanghai, Cape Town, and Rio de
Janeiro. Examining practices in a range of different contexts, the
book pays particular attention to sub-national actors whose work is
opening up new futures through their engagement with decolonial
heritage practices in the present. The volume also considers the
challenges posed by applying decolonial thinking to existing
understandings of colonial heritage. This book examines the role of
colonial heritage in European memory politics and heritage
diplomacy. It will be of interest to academics and students working
in the fields of heritage and memory studies, colonial and imperial
history, European studies, sociology, cultural studies, development
studies, museum studies, and contemporary art.
Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European
decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the
postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the
long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well
as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires
which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade
as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western
Europe, with imperial traces scattered throughout popular and elite
cultures, consumer goods, religious life, political formations, and
ideological terrains. People were also inwardly mobile, including
not simply Europeans returning 'home' but Asians, Africans, West
Indians, and others who made their way to Europe to forge new
lives. The result is a Europe fundamentally transformed by
multicultural diversity and cultural hybridity and by the
destabilization of assumptions about race, culture, and the
meanings of place, and where imperial legacies and memories live
on.
What was life like for the British men, women, and children who
lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families
treats the Raj as a family affair and examines how, and why, many
remained linked with India over several generations.
Due to the fact that India was never meant for permanent European
settlement, many families developed deep-rooted ties with India
while never formally emigrating. Their lives were dominated by long
periods of residence abroad punctuated by repeated travels between
Britain and India: childhood
overseas followed by separation from parents and education in
Britain; adult returns to India through careers or marriage;
furloughs, and ultimately retirement, in Britain. As a result, many
Britons neither felt themselves to be rooted in India, nor felt
completely at home when back in Britain.
Their permanent impermanence led to the creation of distinct social
realities and cultural identities.
Empire Families sets out to recreate this society by looking at a
series of families, their lives in India, and their travels back to
Britain. Focusing for the first time on the experiences of parents
and children alike, and including the Beveridge, Butler, Orwell,
and Kipling families, Elizabeth
Buettner uncovers the meanings of growing up in the Raj and an
itinerant imperial lifestyle.
Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European
decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the
postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the
long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well
as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires
which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade
as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western
Europe, with imperial traces scattered throughout popular and elite
cultures, consumer goods, religious life, political formations, and
ideological terrains. People were also inwardly mobile, including
not simply Europeans returning 'home' but Asians, Africans, West
Indians, and others who made their way to Europe to forge new
lives. The result is a Europe fundamentally transformed by
multicultural diversity and cultural hybridity and by the
destabilization of assumptions about race, culture, and the
meanings of place, and where imperial legacies and memories live
on.
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