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Cherishing the past, envisioning the future : entangled practices of heritage and utopia in the Americas
- Title
- Cherishing the past, envisioning the future : entangled practices of heritage and utopia in the Americas / Olaf Kaltmeier, Mirko Petersen, Wilfried Raussert, Julia Roth (eds.).
- Publication
- Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag ; New Orleans, LA : University of New Orleans Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- 163 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "This anthology reflects on heritage, utopia, and questions of temporality in light of recent changes in the Americas, that is to say the rise to power of several right-wing governments. The essays argue that the focus of analysis should not simply be on changes of government, but rather on long-term transformations which have an impact on temporal imaginaries in the hemisphere"--
- Series Statement
- Inter-American studies: cultures, societies, history = Estudios interamericanos: cultures, sociedades, historia ; volume 24
- Uniform Title
- Inter-American studies ; v. 24.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: Cherishing the past, envisioning the future. Entangled practices of heritage and utopia in the Americas / Olaf Kaltmeier, Mirko Petersen, Wilfried Raussert, Julia Roth -- Whither modernity? Latin America, an "entanglement of spaces" / Javier Sanjinés -- Memories of slavery in France and its French Afro-Antillean diaspora : overview of sites of memory and their entanglements with British and U.S.-American images of slavery and debates on reparations / Ulrike Schmieder -- Envisioning freedom futures : Ernst Bloch's not yet and early eighteenth-century slave societies in the Danish West Indies and Dutch Suriname / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- The link of a former British prime minister's ancestor to Caribbean slavery economy in the current call for reparations in Jamaica / Claudia Rauhut -- Memories in displacement in the public space. The monuments of Juana Azurduy and Christopher Columbus in Argentina / Carolina Crespo -- Populism and the imagination of the past and future / Paula Diehl -- In the shadow of tomorrow : biological entanglements, genetic editing, and a new techno-utopia in the Americas / Rüdiger Kunow.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-3359
- ISBN
- 9781608012060
- 1608012069
- LCCN
- 2020044372
- 40030619487
- OCLC
- 1202730114
- Title
- Cherishing the past, envisioning the future : entangled practices of heritage and utopia in the Americas / Olaf Kaltmeier, Mirko Petersen, Wilfried Raussert, Julia Roth (eds.).
- Publisher
- Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag ; New Orleans, LA : University of New Orleans Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Inter-American studies: cultures, societies, history = Estudios interamericanos: cultures, sociedades, historia ; volume 24Inter-American studies ; v. 24.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- CO-PUB. W/ WISSENSCHAFTLICHER VERLAG TRIER.
- Added Author
- Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970- editor.Petersen, Mirko, editor.Raussert, Wilfried, editor.Roth, Julia, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030619487
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-3359