Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands
Markus Balkenhol, "Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands "
English | ISBN: 1800731604 | 2021 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1800731604 | 2021 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of “trace” as a seminal notion to explore this paradox, this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past – often in almost unconscious ways – and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues.
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