Recent political changes in the Americas have triggered new debates on temporality. The objective of this edited volume is to shed light on the background of these debates. In this regard, “heritage” and “utopia” are key terms used to explore the cultural, social, historical, and political entanglements within the Americas and their relation to coloniality, modernity, and contemporary neoliberal globalization. The contributions to this volume by well established scholars deal with important topics such as slavery, memory politics, populism and biotechnological innovations.
Contents
Introduction: Cherishing the Past, Envisioning the Future.
Entangled Practices of Heritage and Utopia
in the Americas
Olaf Kaltmeier, Mirko Petersen, Wilfried Raussert,
Julia Roth ..................................................................................... 1
Whither Modernity?
Latin America, an “Entanglement of Spaces”
Javier Sanjinés ............................................................................. 13
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 .......................................................................... 31
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 ........................................................... 59
The Link of a Former British Prime Minister’s Ancestor
to Caribbean Slavery Economy in the Current Call
for Reparations in Jamaica
Claudia Rauhut ............................................................................ 77
Memories in Displacement in the Public Space.
The Monuments of Juana Azurduy and
Christopher Columbus in Argentina
Carolina Crespo ........................................................................... 101
Populism and the Imagination of the Past and Future
Paula Diehl .................................................................................. 123
In the Shadow of Tomorrow: Biological Entanglements,
Genetic Editing, and a New Techno-Utopia in the Americas
Rüdiger Kunow ............................................................................ 141
Contributors .................................................................................. 159
