Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe

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Authors

  • Stephan Conermann (Editor)
  • Claudia Rauhut (Editor)
  • Ulrike Schmieder (Editor)
  • Michael Zeuske (Editor)

External Research Organisations

  • University of Bonn
  • Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)
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Translated title of the contributionKulturerbe und Sklaverei: Perspektiven aus Europa
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBerlin, Boston
Publisherde Gruyter
Number of pages344
Edition1
ISBN (electronic)9783111331492
ISBN (print)9783111327785
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Publication series

NameDependency and Slavery
PublisherDe Gruyter
Volume10
ISSN (Print)2701-1127
ISSN (electronic)2701-1135

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.

Keywords

    Cultural Heritage, Slavery. Europe, Sites of Memorry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sustainable Development Goals

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Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe. / Conermann, Stephan (Editor); Rauhut, Claudia (Editor); Schmieder, Ulrike (Editor) et al.
1 ed. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2024. 344 p. (Dependency and Slavery ; Vol. 10).

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Conermann, S, Rauhut, C, Schmieder, U & Zeuske, M (eds) 2024, Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe. Dependency and Slavery , vol. 10, 1 edn, de Gruyter, Berlin, Boston. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492
Conermann, S., Rauhut, C., Schmieder, U., & Zeuske, M. (Eds.) (2024). Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe. (1 ed.) (Dependency and Slavery ; Vol. 10). de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331492
Conermann S, (ed.), Rauhut C, (ed.), Schmieder U, (ed.), Zeuske M, (ed.). Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe. 1 ed. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2024. 344 p. (Dependency and Slavery ). Epub 2023 Nov 20. doi: 10.1515/9783111331492, 10.1515/9783111331492
Conermann, Stephan (Editor) ; Rauhut, Claudia (Editor) ; Schmieder, Ulrike (Editor) et al. / Cultural Heritage and Slavery : Perspectives from Europe. 1 ed. Berlin, Boston : de Gruyter, 2024. 344 p. (Dependency and Slavery ).
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