Edited Issue for: Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. 16 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.6491., 2023
This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national as... more This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national asset with a focus on cities. Instead of the country’s natural heritage, which is often favoured in analyses of Scotland’s past, the journal assesses its distinctive urban heritage and how this relates to issues of national identity. Taking a broad approach to Scotland’s urban heritage, the journal includes contributions on urban development, preservation, architecture, collective and public memory, and tourism as well as documentary film and literature spanning from the early modern period to the present.
Ce numéro spécial d’Angles s’intéresse à la question du patrimoine culturel de l’Écosse en tant qu’atout national important, et porte l’attention sur les villes. Plutôt que de s’intéresser au patrimoine naturel du pays, lequel est souvent privilégié dans les études du passé de l’Écosse, ce numéro s’intéresse au patrimoine urbain, et à sa singularité, en lien avec les questions d’identité nationale. Privilégiant une approche large du patrimoine urbain en Écosse, ce numéro comprend des contributions portant sur le développement urbain, la conservation, l’architecture, la mémoire collective et publique, le tourisme ainsi que sur des films documentaires et des textes littéraires allant du début de la période moderne à nos jours.
Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ... more Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume respond... more Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation – climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation – expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation – that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change. Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, ‘slumming’ in the TV series ‘Maison Close’, ‘Ripper Street’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’ as well as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome.
Cities in Scotland: Cultural Heritage and National Identity. Edited Issue for: Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World., 2023
This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national as... more This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national asset with a focus on cities. Instead of the country’s natural heritage, which is often favoured in analyses of Scotland’s past, the journal assesses its distinctive urban heritage and how this relates to issues of national identity. Taking a broad approach to Scotland’s urban heritage, the journal includes contributions on urban development, preservation, architecture, collective and public memory, and tourism as well as documentary film and literature spanning from the early modern period to the present.
Cities in Scotland: Cultural Heritage and National Identity. Edited issue for: Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. 16 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.7185., 2023
This coda aims to reflect on the enduring importance of cities in Scotland’s sense of identity, a... more This coda aims to reflect on the enduring importance of cities in Scotland’s sense of identity, and open up some contemporary issues relating to Scotland’s future as a nation. We also outline here perspectives for further research and study.
Cette conclusion vise à réfléchir à la place centrale des villes dans l’identité nationale de l’Écosse et à aborder certaines problématiques actuelles concernant l'avenir du pays en tant que nation. Nous esquissons également ici plusieurs perspectives d’étude.
Akteur Wasser: Betrachtungen aus den Rechts-, Geo-, Kunst-, Musik- und Literaturwissenschaften. Ed. Sonja Fielitz. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2022. 97-114. Print. Kulturelle Identitäten / Cultural Identities 6., 2022
This paper shows how Joseph Conrad’s (1857–1924) sea writing on the borderland between literal an... more This paper shows how Joseph Conrad’s (1857–1924) sea writing on the borderland between literal and figurative usage of oceanic waters brings to the fore the fluid’s circulation or continuous transition from one realm to the other. It assesses how the materiality and the metaphoricity of water flow together in Conrad’s sea narratives and thus offers a fresh reflection on the material significance and the literary imagination of oceanic water in British culture. In a first part, the essay scrutinises the im/ materiality of water from the literary, new materialist, and anthropological perspective, namely as maritime metaphor, matter and actant, as well as solid or base metaphor. The second, that is, analytical, part concentrates on specific water scenes from some of Conrad’s most central texts on the sea.
Am 26. Mai 2020 wurde der Afro-Amerikaner George Floyd in der Innenstadt von Minneapolis während ... more Am 26. Mai 2020 wurde der Afro-Amerikaner George Floyd in der Innenstadt von Minneapolis während einer polizeilichen Festnahme getötet. ... Im Ergebnis der weltweiten Proteste sind ein knappes Jahr nach George Floyds Tod hunderte von Statuen, aber auch Kunstwerke, Plaketten und andere Symbole einer verherrlichenden Sicht des Kolonialismus durch Demonstrierende, städtische Kommunen, nationale Autoritäten, öffentliche Institutionen oder Privatbesitzer entfernt worden. Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist es, dieses transnationale und epochale Phänomen gestürzter kolonialer Denkmale aus der Perspektive transkultureller Erinnerungskultur zu betrachten. Die Grundannahme ist, dass neue Zugänge der Material Culture Studies und der Memory Studies einen Paradigmenwechsel in den Heritage Studies methodisch bereits vorzeichnen. Insofern gilt es zu erkunden, inwiefern der monumentale Sturz von Symbolen der Sklaverei und des Kolonialismus einen veritablen Versuch darstellt, das öffentliche Bewusstsein für transnationales kulturelles Erbe zu schärfen bzw. mehrheitlich zu schaffen.
Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm. Eds. Philip Jacobi and Anette Pankratz. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021. 61-75., 2021
Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900. Ed. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. 146–67. Handbooks of English and American Studies, 9, 2020
The rise of the novel during the eighteenth century is notably connected with the birth of a new ... more The rise of the novel during the eighteenth century is notably connected with the birth of a new socio-economic system. Extending that idea, this chapter links the formation of the novel as a dominant genre during the nineteenth century to the further development of capitalism, colonialism, and their concomitant social and material realities. Postcolonial theory, economic criticism, and material culture studies are introduced as central approaches to the novel in the Victorian era that bring to the fore new perspectives or revive neglected works. This chapter covers empire writing from the domestic novels of the first half of the century to the sensation fiction of the second half. Additionally, it concentrates largely on economic issues in Condition-of-England novels, such as the struggle of the working classes, the urban poor, and capital finance. A third section focusses on the representation of commodity culture and the profusion of things in the Victorian novel as related to the conjunction of capitalism and imperialism. In closing, the chapter contemplates the status of the nineteenth-century novel as a veritable commodity and thus as a symbol for the economic expansion of Britain during the Second Empire.
Politisches Denken in der Britischen Romantik. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019. Print. ... more Politisches Denken in der Britischen Romantik. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019. Print. Staatsverständnisse.
London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City Beyond the City. Ed. Nick Hubble and Philip Tew. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 161-76. Bloomsbury Studies in the City.
Sizing a vertical cut or peeling back the surface of London, the multi-layered and widely spread ... more Sizing a vertical cut or peeling back the surface of London, the multi-layered and widely spread system of Underground London is revealed. Next to basement flats and wine cellars this sphere encompasses the arteries that sustain the urban body, like water supply ducts, sewers, electricity and communication cables, gas pipes, channelled rivers, streams and tributaries. Most prominently the stations and tunnels of the oldest Underground railway in the world spread through the city – the London Tube with its cross-passages, ventilation tunnels, escalators, lifts and stairways, exits and entrances. The three-dimensional labyrinth of the urban subterranean system moreover covers archaeological remains of Roman temples, crypts, plague pits, cemetery catacombs, as well as deep-level shelters and various caves (Pleßke 2009: 185–6; Pleßke 2014: 225; Trench/Hillman 1985: 7–22) . A replica of the metropolis above, the Underground mirrors the maze of London’s streets, alleys and lanes. But, owing to its enclosed and...
Real and Imaginary Travels 16th-18th Centuries/ Voyages réels, voyages imaginaires XVIE-XVIIIE siècles. Ed. Anne Bandry-Scubbi and Rémi Vuillemin. Strasbourg: Les Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2015. 129-41.
Commissioned by the African Association to find the Niger river, Mungo Park not only set a standa... more Commissioned by the African Association to find the Niger river, Mungo Park not only set a standard for future travel writers with his account of this journey in Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799), but his trip into terra incognita was also crucial to initiating systematic explorations of the continent. The present contribution stresses the importance of the economic dimensions in Park’s travel narrative. It addresses the explorer’s dependence on trade, analyses his recordings of commerce in the region, and considers the influence of his text on the following colonial explorations and exploitation in Western Africa. The essay thus lays bare both negotiations of cultural exchange and formations of imperial hegemony.
Chargé par l’Association pour la découverte des districts intérieurs de l’Afrique de localiser le fleuve Niger, Mungo Park, par la relation de sa mission dans Travels in the Interior of Africa ( Voyage dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique, 1799), n’a pas seulement établi une référence pour la littérature de voyage à venir, mais a aussi donné par son périple en terra incognita une impulsion cruciale à l’exploration systématique du continent. Pour souligner l’importance de la dimension économique dans le récit de voyage de Park, l’on étudie la dépendance de l’explorateur à l’égard du commerce, ses rapports sur l’activité commerciale dans la région, ainsi que l’influence de son œuvre sur les explorations coloniales à venir et sur l’exploitation de l’Afrique occidentale. Tant les négociations liées aux échanges culturels que la formation d’une hégémonie impériale sont ainsi mises en évidence.
Gender - Frauen - Wissenschaft: Beiträge von einem interdisziplinären Forschungssymposium. Ed. Susanne Günther, et al. Passau, 2015. 13-25. <https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-uni-passau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/246>.
Edited Issue for: Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. 16 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.6491., 2023
This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national as... more This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national asset with a focus on cities. Instead of the country’s natural heritage, which is often favoured in analyses of Scotland’s past, the journal assesses its distinctive urban heritage and how this relates to issues of national identity. Taking a broad approach to Scotland’s urban heritage, the journal includes contributions on urban development, preservation, architecture, collective and public memory, and tourism as well as documentary film and literature spanning from the early modern period to the present.
Ce numéro spécial d’Angles s’intéresse à la question du patrimoine culturel de l’Écosse en tant qu’atout national important, et porte l’attention sur les villes. Plutôt que de s’intéresser au patrimoine naturel du pays, lequel est souvent privilégié dans les études du passé de l’Écosse, ce numéro s’intéresse au patrimoine urbain, et à sa singularité, en lien avec les questions d’identité nationale. Privilégiant une approche large du patrimoine urbain en Écosse, ce numéro comprend des contributions portant sur le développement urbain, la conservation, l’architecture, la mémoire collective et publique, le tourisme ainsi que sur des films documentaires et des textes littéraires allant du début de la période moderne à nos jours.
Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ... more Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume respond... more Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation – climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation – expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation – that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change. Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, ‘slumming’ in the TV series ‘Maison Close’, ‘Ripper Street’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’ as well as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome.
Cities in Scotland: Cultural Heritage and National Identity. Edited Issue for: Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World., 2023
This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national as... more This special issue of Angles reflects on Scotland’s cultural heritage as an important national asset with a focus on cities. Instead of the country’s natural heritage, which is often favoured in analyses of Scotland’s past, the journal assesses its distinctive urban heritage and how this relates to issues of national identity. Taking a broad approach to Scotland’s urban heritage, the journal includes contributions on urban development, preservation, architecture, collective and public memory, and tourism as well as documentary film and literature spanning from the early modern period to the present.
Cities in Scotland: Cultural Heritage and National Identity. Edited issue for: Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. 16 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.7185., 2023
This coda aims to reflect on the enduring importance of cities in Scotland’s sense of identity, a... more This coda aims to reflect on the enduring importance of cities in Scotland’s sense of identity, and open up some contemporary issues relating to Scotland’s future as a nation. We also outline here perspectives for further research and study.
Cette conclusion vise à réfléchir à la place centrale des villes dans l’identité nationale de l’Écosse et à aborder certaines problématiques actuelles concernant l'avenir du pays en tant que nation. Nous esquissons également ici plusieurs perspectives d’étude.
Akteur Wasser: Betrachtungen aus den Rechts-, Geo-, Kunst-, Musik- und Literaturwissenschaften. Ed. Sonja Fielitz. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2022. 97-114. Print. Kulturelle Identitäten / Cultural Identities 6., 2022
This paper shows how Joseph Conrad’s (1857–1924) sea writing on the borderland between literal an... more This paper shows how Joseph Conrad’s (1857–1924) sea writing on the borderland between literal and figurative usage of oceanic waters brings to the fore the fluid’s circulation or continuous transition from one realm to the other. It assesses how the materiality and the metaphoricity of water flow together in Conrad’s sea narratives and thus offers a fresh reflection on the material significance and the literary imagination of oceanic water in British culture. In a first part, the essay scrutinises the im/ materiality of water from the literary, new materialist, and anthropological perspective, namely as maritime metaphor, matter and actant, as well as solid or base metaphor. The second, that is, analytical, part concentrates on specific water scenes from some of Conrad’s most central texts on the sea.
Am 26. Mai 2020 wurde der Afro-Amerikaner George Floyd in der Innenstadt von Minneapolis während ... more Am 26. Mai 2020 wurde der Afro-Amerikaner George Floyd in der Innenstadt von Minneapolis während einer polizeilichen Festnahme getötet. ... Im Ergebnis der weltweiten Proteste sind ein knappes Jahr nach George Floyds Tod hunderte von Statuen, aber auch Kunstwerke, Plaketten und andere Symbole einer verherrlichenden Sicht des Kolonialismus durch Demonstrierende, städtische Kommunen, nationale Autoritäten, öffentliche Institutionen oder Privatbesitzer entfernt worden. Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist es, dieses transnationale und epochale Phänomen gestürzter kolonialer Denkmale aus der Perspektive transkultureller Erinnerungskultur zu betrachten. Die Grundannahme ist, dass neue Zugänge der Material Culture Studies und der Memory Studies einen Paradigmenwechsel in den Heritage Studies methodisch bereits vorzeichnen. Insofern gilt es zu erkunden, inwiefern der monumentale Sturz von Symbolen der Sklaverei und des Kolonialismus einen veritablen Versuch darstellt, das öffentliche Bewusstsein für transnationales kulturelles Erbe zu schärfen bzw. mehrheitlich zu schaffen.
Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm. Eds. Philip Jacobi and Anette Pankratz. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021. 61-75., 2021
Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900. Ed. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. 146–67. Handbooks of English and American Studies, 9, 2020
The rise of the novel during the eighteenth century is notably connected with the birth of a new ... more The rise of the novel during the eighteenth century is notably connected with the birth of a new socio-economic system. Extending that idea, this chapter links the formation of the novel as a dominant genre during the nineteenth century to the further development of capitalism, colonialism, and their concomitant social and material realities. Postcolonial theory, economic criticism, and material culture studies are introduced as central approaches to the novel in the Victorian era that bring to the fore new perspectives or revive neglected works. This chapter covers empire writing from the domestic novels of the first half of the century to the sensation fiction of the second half. Additionally, it concentrates largely on economic issues in Condition-of-England novels, such as the struggle of the working classes, the urban poor, and capital finance. A third section focusses on the representation of commodity culture and the profusion of things in the Victorian novel as related to the conjunction of capitalism and imperialism. In closing, the chapter contemplates the status of the nineteenth-century novel as a veritable commodity and thus as a symbol for the economic expansion of Britain during the Second Empire.
Politisches Denken in der Britischen Romantik. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019. Print. ... more Politisches Denken in der Britischen Romantik. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019. Print. Staatsverständnisse.
London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City Beyond the City. Ed. Nick Hubble and Philip Tew. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 161-76. Bloomsbury Studies in the City.
Sizing a vertical cut or peeling back the surface of London, the multi-layered and widely spread ... more Sizing a vertical cut or peeling back the surface of London, the multi-layered and widely spread system of Underground London is revealed. Next to basement flats and wine cellars this sphere encompasses the arteries that sustain the urban body, like water supply ducts, sewers, electricity and communication cables, gas pipes, channelled rivers, streams and tributaries. Most prominently the stations and tunnels of the oldest Underground railway in the world spread through the city – the London Tube with its cross-passages, ventilation tunnels, escalators, lifts and stairways, exits and entrances. The three-dimensional labyrinth of the urban subterranean system moreover covers archaeological remains of Roman temples, crypts, plague pits, cemetery catacombs, as well as deep-level shelters and various caves (Pleßke 2009: 185–6; Pleßke 2014: 225; Trench/Hillman 1985: 7–22) . A replica of the metropolis above, the Underground mirrors the maze of London’s streets, alleys and lanes. But, owing to its enclosed and...
Real and Imaginary Travels 16th-18th Centuries/ Voyages réels, voyages imaginaires XVIE-XVIIIE siècles. Ed. Anne Bandry-Scubbi and Rémi Vuillemin. Strasbourg: Les Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2015. 129-41.
Commissioned by the African Association to find the Niger river, Mungo Park not only set a standa... more Commissioned by the African Association to find the Niger river, Mungo Park not only set a standard for future travel writers with his account of this journey in Travels in the Interior of Africa (1799), but his trip into terra incognita was also crucial to initiating systematic explorations of the continent. The present contribution stresses the importance of the economic dimensions in Park’s travel narrative. It addresses the explorer’s dependence on trade, analyses his recordings of commerce in the region, and considers the influence of his text on the following colonial explorations and exploitation in Western Africa. The essay thus lays bare both negotiations of cultural exchange and formations of imperial hegemony.
Chargé par l’Association pour la découverte des districts intérieurs de l’Afrique de localiser le fleuve Niger, Mungo Park, par la relation de sa mission dans Travels in the Interior of Africa ( Voyage dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique, 1799), n’a pas seulement établi une référence pour la littérature de voyage à venir, mais a aussi donné par son périple en terra incognita une impulsion cruciale à l’exploration systématique du continent. Pour souligner l’importance de la dimension économique dans le récit de voyage de Park, l’on étudie la dépendance de l’explorateur à l’égard du commerce, ses rapports sur l’activité commerciale dans la région, ainsi que l’influence de son œuvre sur les explorations coloniales à venir et sur l’exploitation de l’Afrique occidentale. Tant les négociations liées aux échanges culturels que la formation d’une hégémonie impériale sont ainsi mises en évidence.
Gender - Frauen - Wissenschaft: Beiträge von einem interdisziplinären Forschungssymposium. Ed. Susanne Günther, et al. Passau, 2015. 13-25. <https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-uni-passau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/246>.
Political Topographies. Ed. Ina Habermann. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Volume 20 (2). 2013. 171-88., 2014
Angles. New Perspectives on the Anglophone World. https://journals.openedition.org/angles/6505, 2023
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Ce numéro spécial d’Angles s’intéresse à la question du patrimoine culturel de l’Écosse en tant qu’atout national important, et porte l’attention sur les villes. Plutôt que de s’intéresser au patrimoine naturel du pays, lequel est souvent privilégié dans les études du passé de l’Écosse, ce numéro s’intéresse au patrimoine urbain, et à sa singularité, en lien avec les questions d’identité nationale. Privilégiant une approche large du patrimoine urbain en Écosse, ce numéro comprend des contributions portant sur le développement urbain, la conservation, l’architecture, la mémoire collective et publique, le tourisme ainsi que sur des films documentaires et des textes littéraires allant du début de la période moderne à nos jours.
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Cette conclusion vise à réfléchir à la place centrale des villes dans l’identité nationale de l’Écosse et à aborder certaines problématiques actuelles concernant l'avenir du pays en tant que nation. Nous esquissons également ici plusieurs perspectives d’étude.
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Im Ergebnis der weltweiten Proteste sind ein knappes Jahr
nach George Floyds Tod hunderte von Statuen, aber auch Kunstwerke, Plaketten und andere Symbole einer verherrlichenden Sicht des Kolonialismus durch Demonstrierende, städtische Kommunen, nationale Autoritäten, öffentliche Institutionen oder Privatbesitzer entfernt worden.
Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist es, dieses transnationale und epochale
Phänomen gestürzter kolonialer Denkmale aus der Perspektive transkultureller Erinnerungskultur zu betrachten. Die Grundannahme ist, dass neue Zugänge der Material Culture Studies und der Memory Studies einen Paradigmenwechsel in den Heritage Studies methodisch bereits vorzeichnen. Insofern gilt es zu erkunden, inwiefern der monumentale Sturz von Symbolen der Sklaverei und des Kolonialismus einen veritablen Versuch darstellt, das öffentliche Bewusstsein für transnationales kulturelles Erbe zu schärfen bzw. mehrheitlich zu schaffen.
Chargé par l’Association pour la découverte des districts intérieurs de l’Afrique de localiser le fleuve Niger, Mungo Park, par la relation de sa mission dans Travels in the Interior of Africa ( Voyage dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique, 1799), n’a pas seulement établi une référence pour la littérature de voyage à venir, mais a aussi donné par son périple en terra incognita une impulsion cruciale à l’exploration systématique du continent. Pour souligner l’importance de la dimension économique dans le récit de voyage de Park, l’on étudie la dépendance de l’explorateur à l’égard du commerce, ses rapports sur l’activité commerciale dans la région, ainsi que l’influence de son œuvre sur les explorations coloniales à venir et sur l’exploitation de l’Afrique occidentale. Tant les négociations liées aux échanges culturels que la formation d’une hégémonie impériale sont ainsi mises en évidence.
Ce numéro spécial d’Angles s’intéresse à la question du patrimoine culturel de l’Écosse en tant qu’atout national important, et porte l’attention sur les villes. Plutôt que de s’intéresser au patrimoine naturel du pays, lequel est souvent privilégié dans les études du passé de l’Écosse, ce numéro s’intéresse au patrimoine urbain, et à sa singularité, en lien avec les questions d’identité nationale. Privilégiant une approche large du patrimoine urbain en Écosse, ce numéro comprend des contributions portant sur le développement urbain, la conservation, l’architecture, la mémoire collective et publique, le tourisme ainsi que sur des films documentaires et des textes littéraires allant du début de la période moderne à nos jours.
Cette conclusion vise à réfléchir à la place centrale des villes dans l’identité nationale de l’Écosse et à aborder certaines problématiques actuelles concernant l'avenir du pays en tant que nation. Nous esquissons également ici plusieurs perspectives d’étude.
...
Im Ergebnis der weltweiten Proteste sind ein knappes Jahr
nach George Floyds Tod hunderte von Statuen, aber auch Kunstwerke, Plaketten und andere Symbole einer verherrlichenden Sicht des Kolonialismus durch Demonstrierende, städtische Kommunen, nationale Autoritäten, öffentliche Institutionen oder Privatbesitzer entfernt worden.
Ziel des vorliegenden Beitrags ist es, dieses transnationale und epochale
Phänomen gestürzter kolonialer Denkmale aus der Perspektive transkultureller Erinnerungskultur zu betrachten. Die Grundannahme ist, dass neue Zugänge der Material Culture Studies und der Memory Studies einen Paradigmenwechsel in den Heritage Studies methodisch bereits vorzeichnen. Insofern gilt es zu erkunden, inwiefern der monumentale Sturz von Symbolen der Sklaverei und des Kolonialismus einen veritablen Versuch darstellt, das öffentliche Bewusstsein für transnationales kulturelles Erbe zu schärfen bzw. mehrheitlich zu schaffen.
Chargé par l’Association pour la découverte des districts intérieurs de l’Afrique de localiser le fleuve Niger, Mungo Park, par la relation de sa mission dans Travels in the Interior of Africa ( Voyage dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique, 1799), n’a pas seulement établi une référence pour la littérature de voyage à venir, mais a aussi donné par son périple en terra incognita une impulsion cruciale à l’exploration systématique du continent. Pour souligner l’importance de la dimension économique dans le récit de voyage de Park, l’on étudie la dépendance de l’explorateur à l’égard du commerce, ses rapports sur l’activité commerciale dans la région, ainsi que l’influence de son œuvre sur les explorations coloniales à venir et sur l’exploitation de l’Afrique occidentale. Tant les négociations liées aux échanges culturels que la formation d’une hégémonie impériale sont ainsi mises en évidence.