Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture

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Contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Positionality statement
1 Introduction: Collaborating cultures, negotiating identities Sarah Hegenbart
Part One Curating transcultural spaces
	2 Initial legal and policy questions surrounding objects dispossessed in colonial context Kwame Opoku
	3 Symptoms of postcolonial aporia and (national) identity crises in Germany Sarah Hegenbart
	4 Multiple modernisms – curating the post-war era for the present Kristian Handberg
Part Two Confronting the colonial past and constructing identities
on the African continent, case studies from African countries
	5 The architecture and aesthetics of Apartheid: Dada in South Africa, a case study Thomas O. Haakenson
	6 Contested memories and spaces: Art, archives and ambivalence in ‘Ovizire∙Somgu: From where do we speak?’ A case study Julia Rensing
	7 Democracy reflected in form, space and order: Learning from West Africa’s ancient empires, a case study from Nigeria Olajumoke Adenowo
	8 Westerns made in Africa, a case study from Burkina Faso Camille Varenne
Part Three Postcolonial conflicts, colonial memories and
negotiating identities in Germany
	9 Troubling the nation: Black Germans and the teaching of history Jeff Bowersox
	10 The African diaspora palace: The pastfuture of Black knowledge in Europe Natasha A. Kelly
	11 Cosmopolitanizing colonial memories in Berlin: The Humboldt Forum and the current shift in Germany’s culture of remembrance Thomas Thiemeyer
	12 Under the shadow of the Christian cross: Twenty years of planning and curating the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin Viola König
	Conclusion
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