Historical Culture by Restitution?
A Debate on Art, Museums, and Justice
Looted art, art theft, colonial collections of cultural objects – not only since the controversy over the Nigerian Benin bronzes at the Humboldt Forum in the German capital Berlin and other European museums a dispute over how to deal with exhibits from colonial contexts erupted.
The debate, which has been ongoing among experts for some time, gained new political momentum in 2018 when France's President Macron announced that objects of colonial provenance in French museums would be returned to their societies of origin, and initiated concrete steps. The demand for restitution of art treasures of colonial provenance raises fundamental and extremely complex questions about the presence of the past in ethical, scientific, political, legal and aesthetic dimensions. They concern art historians and museum professionals, cultural historians, historians of science, lawyers and history teachers as well as visitors to museums with colonial collections, who are made aware of the provenance of objects there.
This volume, published in Germany in 2021, was a first attempt at illuminating the historio-cultural dimensions of the debate and bringing them to the attention of a broader public. German and international authors contributed essays making clear, how important it is to take a differentiated look at a central part of the current social debate on the legacy of colonialism. This volume was well received.
As colonialism is by definition an international phenomenon, the current debate in Germany is presented here in an English language version now.
Dr. Thomas Sandkühler ist Professor für Geschichtsdidaktik an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Er war bis September 2019 Vorsitzender der Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik (KGD), der Verband der Geschichtsdidaktikerinnen und Geschichtsdidaktiker Deutschlands.
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Thomas Sandkühler, Angelika Epple, Jürgen Zimmerer, Safua Akeli Amaama, Bettina Brockmeyer, Mirjam Brusius, Hartmut Dorgerloh, Andreas Eckert, Angelika Epple, Till Förster, Matthias Goldmann, Rebekka Habermas, Judith Hackmack, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Sheila Heidt, Wolfgang Kaleck, Viola König, Flower Manase, Lukas Meyer, Benno Nietzel, Osarhieme Osadolor, Hermann Parzinger, Thomas Sandkühler, Erhard Schüttpelz, David Simo, Thomas Thiemeyer, Jürgen Zimmerer, Christoph Zuschlag, Beatriz von Loe
- Verlag Böhlau Köln
- Seitenzahl 469
- Veröffentlichung 12.06.2023
- ISBN 9783412527822
- Verlag Böhlau Köln