Decolonizing European Colonial Heritage in Urban Spaces – An Introduction to the Special Issue

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Heritage and Society Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI:10.1080/2159032X.2021.1888370

Christoffer Kølvraa, B. T. Knudsen

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ABSTRACT The contributions presented here were written in late 2019 and finalized in the early months of 2020. What unfolded on the global stage while the special issue was making its way through the publication process – the murder of George Floyd, the rise of Black Lives Matter as a global agenda and the reenergizing of protests against both material and ideological colonial heritage – seemed at times almost about to overtake it; to render it “preemptively anachronistic” as a consequence of a radical transformation of the stakes, forms and intensities of the decolonial struggle. Ultimately, however, we think that this new context has only further validated the importance and urgency of the work undertaken here: not only is the connection between issues of contemporary racism and the colonial past which those events highlighted here explicitly conceptualized, but also the various forms and content that the decolonial struggle can be invested with are revealed and examined in both European metropoles and their global counterparts.

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非殖民化的欧洲殖民遗产在城市空间-介绍特刊

摘要本文所载稿件写于2019年末，于2020年初定稿。在特刊出版过程中，在全球舞台上发生的事情——乔治·弗洛伊德被谋杀，《黑人的命也是命》作为全球议程的兴起，以及反对物质和意识形态殖民遗产的抗议活动的重新活跃——有时似乎几乎要超过它；由于非殖民化斗争的利害关系、形式和强度的根本转变，使其“先发制人地不合时宜”。然而，最终，我们认为，这一新的背景只会进一步证实在这里开展的工作的重要性和紧迫性：不仅当代种族主义问题与殖民历史之间的联系——这里强调的这些事件明确地将其概念化了，而且，非殖民化斗争可以投入的各种形式和内容在欧洲大都市及其全球同行中都得到了揭示和检验。

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期刊介绍： Heritage & Society is a global, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholarly, professional, and community reflection on the cultural, political, and economic impacts of heritage on contemporary society. We seek to examine the current social roles of collective memory, historic preservation, cultural resource management, public interpretation, cultural preservation and revitalization, sites of conscience, diasporic heritage, education, legal/legislative developments, cultural heritage ethics, and central heritage concepts such as authenticity, significance, and value. The journal provides an engaging forum about tangible and intangible heritage for those who work with international and governmental organizations, academic institutions, private heritage consulting and CRM firms, and local, associated, and indigenous communities. With a special emphasis on social science approaches and an international perspective, the journal will facilitate lively, critical discussion and dissemination of practical data among heritage professionals, planners, policymakers, and community leaders.