Anthology exploring the keywords of colonial heritage

Edited by Casper Andersen, Britta Timm Knudsen & Christoffer Kølvraa

"The overall aim is to investigate decolonial heritage practices outside Europe in former colonized territories with multiple and different histories of colonialisms as well as to look at decolonial practices inside Europe while keeping in mind the very different trajectories of the different European colonial projects. The fact that Europe's colonial past is simultaneously present as an undeniable heritage in its cities, institutions and international relationships, and also constantly 'echoed' back to it from the former colonized 'outside' constitutes both the challenge and the promise of the ECHOES project; to look for way in which to engage a decolonized future by seeking inspiration in how the colonial past is managed, transformed and worked on by various artistic, political, heritage or civil actors in cityscapes within and beyond the with European continent."

Read our introduction.

"... today, these complex colonial legacies and heritage remain central not only to postcolonial societies overseas but also still echo resoundingly across Europe itself."

European Entanglements

"Internal colonization is a term used in the social sciences and humanities to define the subordination of one European people to others in terms of 'colonialism'."

Internal Colonisation

"Part of the problem in defining colonialism is that it is sometimes confused with 'imperialism'."

Multiple Colonialisms

"To talk of epistemic decolonization, then, is to suggest that knowledge itself has been colonized, and needs to be decolonized."

Epistemic Decolonization

"Therefore, the focus shifts from the representation and access of authorised heritage to the affective and sensorial dimensions..."

Affective & Creative Research Practices

"Decolonization, therefore, is not merely (or indeed primarily) an event that took place when and where formal colonial rule came to an end ..."

Decolonizing the Mind

"A reframed colonial past can then, while boosting local, regional or even national economies, prevent awareness of, public debates on and actions relating to the past in question."

Reframing

"At the heart of science diplomacy in the context of (de)colonial heritage, thus lie concerns about the direction and flow of knowledge as well as attitudes towards receiving knowledge and listening..."

Science Diplomacy

"The reworking of European legacy within which revolves the decolonial turn of art unfolds in frames of protestation, resistance and emancipation ..."

Decolonial Aesthetics

"Interculturality is the ethical, social and communicative practices, which are performed in the contact zones."

Interculturality

"... the concept of Repression simultaneously connotes the forceful rejection of a past experience, and its ‘return’ or lingering existence despite this effort."

Repression

"Contrary to both repression and removal and like re-framing, re-emergence allows the ghosts of the colonial past to re-appear in the becoming of new futures."

Re-emergence

"... the practice and management analyzed encompass not just the materiality and discursivity of colonial heritage..."

Modalities of Heritage Practice

"The colonial past is no longer covered over, silenced, marginalised or ignored, rather it is dragged out into the open with the intense hope of once and for all being able to expel it."

Removal

"At root, this position is a rejection of the kind of abstract universalism that characterizes modern Western thinking."

Decolonial Thinking and Practice

"The origins of the present day 'entanglement' dates back to the unequal power relations of colonialism."

Entangled Cities

Decolonial Thinking & Practice

by Nick Shepherd

"... decolonial thinking offers a critique in two directions: a critique of colonialism as historical project and formative ground for many disciplinary projects, and a critique of modernity as political, economic and epistemic project and as way of being in the world."

European Entanglements

by Elizabeth Buettner

"Global flows of people (whether enslaved, indentured, or voluntary), goods, capital, and ideologies linked European colonizing countries with overseas possessions and spheres of influence during an extended age of empire; today, these complex colonial legacies and heritage remain central not only to postcolonial societies overseas but also still echo resoundingly across Europe itself."

Affective & Creative Research Practices

by Britta Timm Knudsen

"Here, heritage is thus a relationship, a connection established to other species, things, sites, technologies etc., and it is also the experiential quality of this specific encounter for a human being. Therefore, the focus shifts from the representation and access of authorised heritage to the affective and sensorial dimensions of encounters between human bodies and the material-social world."

Modalities of Heritage Practice

by Christoffer Kølvraa

"The concept of heritage practice emphasizes that, although many cases will deal with actual material heritage or heritage sites, the practice and management analyzed encompass not just the materiality and discursivity of colonial heritage, but also the performativity, affectivity and wider social contexts in play in and around various forms of heritage."

Repression

by Christoffer Kølvraa

"Repression does not signify an ‘Orwellian’ notion of the past as completely malleable by those who hold power in the present. On the contrary, the concept of Repression simultaneously connotes the forceful rejection of a past experience, and its ‘return’ or lingering existence despite this effort."

Removal

by Christoffer Kølvraa

"The colonial past is no longer covered over, silenced, marginalised or ignored, rather it is dragged out into the open with the intense hope of once and for all being able to expel it."

Reframing

by Britta Timm Knudsen

"A reframed colonial past can then, while boosting local, regional or even national economies, prevent awareness of, public debates on and actions relating to the past in question."

Re-emergence

by Britta Timm Knudsen

"... re-emergence is a lost opportunity from the past that returns to offer itself for creating alternative futures. Contrary to both repression and removal and like re-framing, re-emergence allows the ghosts of the colonial past to re-appear in the becoming of new futures."

Multiple Colonialisms

by John Oldfield

"Colonialism is usually associated with practices of domination that involve the subjugation of one group of people by another. Part of the problem in defining colonialism is that it is sometimes confused with 'imperialism'."

Entangled Cities

by Lorena Sancho Querol, Marcia Chuva; Astrid Nonbo Andersen; Giuseppina Raggi; Cristiano Gianolla; Paulo Peixoto

"The origins of the present day 'entanglement' dates back to the unequal power relations of colonialism. Contemporary tensions and disputes must be studied and understood from a historical perspective whose multiple echoes reach down to the present day."

Internal Colonisation

by Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper

"Internal colonization is a term used in the social sciences and humanities to define the subordination of one European people to others in terms of 'colonialism'."

Decolonizing the Mind

by Casper Andersen

"Decolonization, therefore, is not merely (or indeed primarily) an event that took place when and where formal colonial rule came to an end, but rather a process of challenging the cultural and epistemic legacies of colonialism in broader fields of history, aesthetics and culture."

Decolonial Aesthetics

by Marine Schütz

"The critical nature of the ways in which recent aesthetic experiments connect to the values of art inherited from the Modern European heritage form another argument for reading decolonial aesthetics as a movement that owes to the processes of decolonization."

Epistemic Decolonization

by Nick Shepherd

"To talk of epistemic decolonization, then, is to suggest that knowledge itself has been colonized, and needs to be decolonized."

Interculturality

by Jan Ifversen

"Interculturality is the ethical, social and communicative practices, which are performed in the contact zones."

Science Diplomacy

by Casper Andersen

"At the heart of science diplomacy in the context of (de)colonial heritage, thus lie concerns about the direction and flow of knowledge as well as attitudes towards receiving knowledge and listening"

Heritage Diplomacy

by Cristina Clopot

"The aim here is to expand on this existing literature by exploring a decolonial approach to heritage diplomacy, one that introduces unofficial actors as key players (e.g. artists, museums, etc.) acting at city level rather than the official channels that represent state interests."

Invisibilised Heritage

by Aline Montenegro, Fernanda Castro & Lorena Sancho-Querol

"The reason is simple: it reflects the rupture with a hierarchical and socially exclusionary vision of heritage and, at the same time, a profound social activation of the concept that manifests itself in the participation of communities in its definition, application and contemporary uses."

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under agreed No 770248

Anthology exploring the keywords of colonial heritage

Edited by Casper Andersen, Britta Timm Knudsen & Christoffer Kølvraa

Read our introduction.

"... today, these complex colonial legacies and heritage remain central not only to postcolonial societies overseas but also still echo resoundingly across Europe itself."

European Entanglements

"To talk of epistemic decolonization, then, is to suggest that knowledge itself has been colonized, and needs to be decolonized."

Epistemic Decolonization

Science Diplomacy

"Contrary to both repression and removal and like re-framing, re-emergence allows the ghosts of the colonial past to re-appear in the becoming of new futures."

Re-emergence

"Part of the problem in defining colonialism is that it is sometimes confused with 'imperialism'."

Multiple Colonialisms

"Interculturality is the ethical, social and communicative practices, which are performed in the contact zones."

Interculturality

"The origins of the present day 'entanglement' dates back to the unequal power relations of colonialism."

Entangled Cities

"Decolonization, therefore, is not merely (or indeed primarily) an event that took place when and where formal colonial rule came to an end ..."

Decolonizing the Mind

"The reworking of European legacy within which revolves the decolonial turn of art unfolds in frames of protestation, resistance and emancipation ..."

Decolonial Aesthetics

"... the concept of Repression simultaneously connotes the forceful rejection of a past experience, and its ‘return’ or lingering existence despite this effort."

Repression

"Therefore, the focus shifts from the representation and access of authorised heritage to the affective and sensorial dimensions..."

Affective & Creative Research Practices

"... the practice and management analyzed encompass not just the materiality and discursivity of colonial heritage..."

Modalities of Heritage Practice

"A reframed colonial past can then, while boosting local, regional or even national economies, prevent awareness of, public debates on and actions relating to the past in question."

Reframing

"At root, this position is a rejection of the kind of abstract universalism that characterizes modern Western thinking."

Decolonial Thinking and Practice

"The colonial past is no longer covered over, silenced, marginalised or ignored, rather it is dragged out into the open with the intense hope of once and for all being able to expel it."

Removal

"Internal colonization is a term used in the social sciences and humanities to define the subordination of one European people to others in terms of 'colonialism'."