Contested Heritage in Europe and Africa
Representation, Commemoration, and Memorialization of a Connected Past
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Contested Heritage in Europe and Africa
Representation, Commemoration, and Memorialization of a Connected Past
About this book
This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization.
Recent waves of protest around the world have called for restitution of looted African art, and toppled statues and vandalized monuments which are connected to white suprematism, colonialism, and imperialism. These events have highlighted an urgent need to debate the management and preservation of Europe and Africa's shared heritage. Drawing on a range of varied, trans-continental case studies, this book considers the key question of whether such monuments should be removed as forms of unacceptable celebration of an evil past, or preserved precisely because of what they recount about that past of oppression and domination. The book encourages readers to consider how diverse and pervasive the notions of shared heritage and common past are, encompassing discussions of statues, exhibitions, graffiti, tapestries, and commemorations.
Providing a timely analysis of the developing cultural relations between Africa and Europe, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of global history, heritage studies, memory studies, and international relations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Iconographies of Oppression?: Material and Immaterial Legacies of Euro-African Encounters
- 2 The Khoekhoe, Vasco da Gama and the Limits of Written History
- 3 Style Congo: Heritage and Heresy: Reappraising Art Nouveau in Brussels
- 4 Looking for East Africa in Italian Newspapers: The Press Coverage of the Vandalism of Montanelliās Statue
- 5 Unraveling Slave Sites in Europe: Reconsidering Europe as a Temperate, Slave Minority Site and African-Diasporic Space, through Counter-Commemoration
- 6 āLāArchive urbaineā: How the Yataal Art initiative commemorates the history of French Senegal in Dakarās MĆ©dina Neighbourhood of 1914
- 7 Rethinking Iconographies of Suffering and Hope for European Refugees in Uganda: A Case Study of Our Lady Queen of Poland Catholic Church Nyabyeya ā Masindi
- 8 Colonial Impositions, Postcolonial Dilemmas and Contemporary Dynamics of Place Naming in Nairobi, Kenya
- 9 Unveiling Histories: Colonial Monuments and Street Names in Namibiaās Public Space
- 10 Conclusions
- Index