Decolonizing Colonial Heritage

Britta Timm Knudsen is Professor of Culture, Media and Experience Economy, School of Communication and Culture, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like.

Lists of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Haunted Worlds: Ghosts of the Colonial Past: Chapter 1: Europe and Its Entangled Colonial Pasts: Europeanizing the 'Imperial Turn; Chapter 2: 1917, Brexit and Imperial Nostalgia: A Longing for the Future; Chapter 3: Spectres of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town; Chapter 4: Decolonizing the Narrative of Portuguese Empire: Life Stories of African Presence, Heritage and Memory; Chapter 5: Decolonizing Warsaw: The Multiple Afterlives of 'Ali'; Part II: Contemporary Heritage Practices: New Agents, Urban Space Events, Intercultural Encounters: (i) Museums and curatorship: Chapter 6: Curating Colonial Heritage in Amsterdam, Warsaw and Shanghai's Museums: No Single Road to Decolonization; Chapter 7: The Influence of Western Colonial Culture on Shanghai: A Case Study of the 'Modern Shanghai' Exhibition at the Shanghai History Museum; Chapter 8: Decolonizing Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), The Turning Point of Curatorship; (ii) Echoes of colonial heritage, visual culture and site-specific art: Chapter 9: Sensitive Memories at a World Heritage Site: Silencing and Resistance at the Valongo Wharf; Chapter 10: Traces of Contempt and Traces of Self-Esteem: Deconstructing our Toxic Colonial Legacy; Chapter 11: Reframing the Colonial in Postcolonial Lisbon: Placemaking and the Aestheticization of Interculturality; Chapter 12: Aesthetics and Colonial Heritage: An Interview with Artists Based in Marseille; Chapter 13: Enslaved Bodies, Entangled Sites and the Memory of Slavery in Cape Town: The Meeting of the Dead and the Living; Part III:Imagining Decolonial Futures: Chapter 14: Decolonial Countervisuality; Chapter 15: New Diplomacy and Decolonial Heritage Practices; Chapter 16: Decolonial Voices, Colonialism and the Limits of European Liberalism: The European Question Revisited; Index.