ISBN:
9783868218046
,
9781608012060
Language:
English
Pages:
163 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Inter-American studies Volume 24
Series Statement:
cultures - societies - history
Series Statement:
Inter-American studies
DDC:
306.097
Keywords:
Collective memory
;
Cultural property Social aspects
;
Utopias
;
Time perspective
;
America Civilization
;
America Colonization
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Amerika
;
Kulturerbe
;
Sklaverei
;
Kolonialismus
;
Amerika
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Kulturerbe
Abstract:
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction: Cherishing the past, envisioning the future. Entangled practices of heritage and utopia in the Americas / Olaf Kaltmeier, Mirko Petersen, Wilfried Raussert, Julia Roth -- Whither modernity? Latin America, an "entanglement of spaces" / Javier Sanjinés -- Memories of slavery in France and its French Afro-Antillean diaspora : overview of sites of memory and their entanglements with British and U.S.-American images of slavery and debates on reparations / Ulrike Schmieder -- Envisioning freedom futures : Ernst Bloch's not yet and early eighteenth-century slave societies in the Danish West Indies and Dutch Suriname / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- The link of a former British prime minister's ancestor to Caribbean slavery economy in the current call for reparations in Jamaica / Claudia Rauhut -- Memories in displacement in the public space. The monuments of Juana Azurduy and Christopher Columbus in Argentina / Carolina Crespo -- Populism and the imagination of the past and future / Paula Diehl -- In the shadow of tomorrow : biological entanglements, genetic editing, and a new techno-utopia in the Americas / Rüdiger Kunow.
Abstract:
"This anthology reflects on heritage, utopia, and questions of temporality in light of recent changes in the Americas, that is to say the rise to power of several right-wing governments. The essays argue that the focus of analysis should not simply be on changes of government, but rather on long-term transformations which have an impact on temporal imaginaries in the hemisphere"--
Abstract:
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