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 Sanjines -- 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 / Ru˜diger Kunow.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Estudios interamericanos: cultures, sociedades, historia ; Estudios interamericanos: cultures, sociedades, historia ; volume 24
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