Cultural Heritage and Slavery

Perspectives from Europe

verfasst von

Stephan Conermann, Claudia Rauhut, Ulrike Schmieder, Michael Zeuske

Abstract

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.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Historisches Seminar
Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies

Externe Organisation(en)

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)

Typ

Sammelwerk

Anzahl der Seiten

344

Publikationsdatum

2024

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sozialwissenschaften (insg.), Geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer (insg.)

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492 (Zugang: Offen)