DEcolonial Heritage (eBook)

Book Cover 1
Imprint 4
Contents 5
DEcolonial Heritage. Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory. Introduction (Aníbal Arregui, Gesa Mackenthun,Stephanie Wodianka) 7
Heritage in the Age of Geographical and Cultural Mobility 10
Heritage Time and the Coloniality of Heritage 14
Decolonizing Heritage 17
Chapter Summaries 20
Works Cited 27
Chapter One. Stewarding Disputed Heritage: Private Property, Tribal Legacy, National Patrimony, Global Commons (David Lowenthal) 31
Heritage Stewardship is Innately Possessive 32
Stewardship is Traditionally Parochial 33
Biblical Origins of Heritage 35
“My Country, Right or Wrong” 36
Universalizing Heritage: the Modern Mission 37
Universalizing Heritage: the Sober Reality 38
Repatriation Dilemmas and Nationalist Priorities 39
Conflicting Values: Nations, Tribes, and UNESCO 41
From Cosmopolitanism to Cultural Apartheid 46
Stewarding Universal Natural Heritage 47
Small Island Heritage Havens 48
Works Cited 50
Chapter Two. How Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Civilizations in the Historical Past? (Ronnie Ellenblum) 55
The Length and Strength of an Affective Crisis 57
How Does a Crisis Develop? From Climate Anomaly to Social Crisis 59
Could the Administration Prevent the Scarcity? 61
The Social Consequences of Climate Crises 64
Climate Crises, Refugees, and Nomadic Migrations 66
The Limits of the Crisis 69
The End of the Crisis 70
Conclusion 71
Works Cited 72
Chapter Three. Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now (Karl Steel) 75
Race and the Modern Viking 76
The Heterogeneous Medieval Norse 83
Against the White Fantasy 86
Works Cited 90
Chapter Four. Du “Patrimoine national” au “Patrimoine interculturel”: Concepts et formes d’institutionnalisation, depuis la Révolution Française jusqu’au Musée National d’Histoire de l’Immigration (Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink) 97
Réflexions préliminaires, concepts, périodisations 97
Henri-Baptiste Grégoire – Idéologue national et homme politiqueré publicain dans le contexte de la Révolution Française 100
Horizons transnationaux et formes de mémoire interculturelle 107
OEuvres Citées 112
Chapter Five. Le patrimoine en question(s): Le moment des années 1830 au prisme des “Voyages en France” de Stendhal (Laure Lévêque) 115
Chapter Six. From Town to Cultural Site: The Heritagization Paths for Casablanca (Romeo Carabelli) 135
Imperial Development During the Protectorate 135
The Birth of a Cultural Heritage Issue 137
The “Civil Society” Came into Action 138
The International Path as an Incentive for Local Action 142
An Inescapable Corollary 143
The Preparation and Management of the Casablanca’s Candidature Dossier 145
Lessons from Casablanca 146
Works Cited 147
Chapter Seven. The Gift of Heritage: Making “Eco” Economical in Nigeria (Peter Probst) 151
Preserving the Home of the Goddess 154
From Vertical to Horizontal Politics 159
Exchange as Mediation 163
Property Issues 166
Conclusion 171
Works Cited 172
Chapter Eight. Indigenous Knowledges, Ecology, and Living Heritage in North America (Kerstin Knopf) 175
Introduction 176
The Documentary Film 179
Indigenous Knowledge in Western Environments 184
Indigenous and Western Concepts of Ecology 188
Indigenous Knowledges as Living Heritages 191
Works Cited 198
Chapter Nine. Ecological Conservation vs. Big Oil: The Case of Yasuní in Ecuador (Jürgen Vogt) 203
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 203
Ecuador 204
Economic and Political Surroundings 205
The Constitution and the Concept of a Good Living 206
Yasuní National Park and the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve 207
The Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini Initiative 209
The Failure of the ITT Initiative 210
China’s Impact on the Yasuní 211
Protest Against Oil Drilling from Inside and Outside the ITT 212
The Falling Oil Price – a New Chance for the ITT? 213
Green Light for Oil Drilling Inside the Yasuní 213
Conclusion 215
Works Cited 216
Chapter Ten. Naturalizing Culture in the Pyrenees: Heritage Processes and the Eternalization of Rural Societies (Camila del Mármol and Ferran Estrada) 219
Introduction 219
Heritage in the Catalan Pyrenees 220
Naturalizing Culture 222
Authenticity, Past and Nature 224
Approaching Culture to Nature in Rural Contexts 226
Architecture 228
Productes de la Terra 231
Conclusions 232
Works Cited 233
Chapter Eleven. Panarchy and the Cross-Cultural Dynamics of Place in Nineteenth-Century America (John J. Kucich) 237
Place, Materiality, and Ecocultural Contact 240
Talking Trees: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Margaret Fuller 243
Spirits of the Woods: Henry Thoreau and Joseph Nicolar 249
Panarchy and Ecocultural Contact 253
Works Cited 255
Chapter Twelve. Cultivating the Sky (Aníbal Arregui) 257
Inheriting an Atmosphere 259
Forest-Sky Relation as Tensional Space 260
Forest-Sky Relation in an Irreversible Time 261
Cultivating (in) the Chaos 263
Climatology and Animism 264
Environmental Diplomacy 266
Decolonial Connections 268
World Heritage at the End of the World 270
Works Cited 272
Contributors 275