@phdthesis{LeGallMboro2020,
  author    = {LeGall, Yann and Mboro, Mnyaka Sururu},
  title     = {Remembering the dismembered},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-50850},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508502},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {viii, 346},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This thesis - written in co-authorship with Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro - examines different cases of repatriation of ancestral remains to African countries and communities through the prism of postcolonial memory studies. It follows the theft and displacement of prominent ancestors from East and Southern Africa (Sarah Baartman, Dawid Stuurman, Mtwa Mkwawa, Songea Mbano, King Hintsa and the victims of the Ovaherero and Nama genocides) and argues that efforts made for the repatriation of their remains have contributed to a transnational remembrance of colonial violence. Drawing from cultural studies theories such as "multidirectional memory", "rehumanisation" and "necropolitics", the thesis argues for a new conceptualisation or "re-membrance" in repatriation, through processes of reunion, empowerment, story-telling and belonging. Besides, the afterlives of the dead ancestors, who stand at the centre of political debates on justice and reparations, remind of their past struggles against colonial oppression. They are therefore "memento vita", fostering counter-discourses that recognize them as people and stories. This manuscript is accompanied by a "(web)site of memory" where some of the research findings are made available to a wider audience. This blog also hosts important sound material which appears in the thesis as interventions by external contributors. Through QR codes, both the written and the digital version are linked with each other to problematize the idea of a written monograph and bring a polyphonic perspective to those diverse, yet connected, histories.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Balzar2022,
  author    = {Balzar, Christoph},
  title     = {Das kolonisierte Heiligtum},
  series = {Cultural Heritage Studies},
  journal   = {Cultural Heritage Studies},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {transcript Verlag},
  address   = {Bielefeld},
  isbn      = {978-3-8394-6525-7},
  issn      = {2752-1524},
  doi       = {10.14361/9783839465257},
  pages     = {232},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {W{\"a}hrend der Zeit des historischen Kolonialismus wurden in V{\"o}lkerkundemuseen komplexe Formen rassistischer und religi{\"o}ser Diskriminierung institutionalisiert, z.B. in den dort g{\"u}ltigen {\"A}sthetik- und Kunstbegriffen. Viele der heutigen Museumsangestellten erkl{\"a}ren sich deswegen zu Reformen bereit. Doch k{\"o}nnen sie sich tats{\"a}chlich vom Kolonialismus trennen? Ist eine Dekolonisation ethnologischer Museen mit kolonialer Beute je abschließend m{\"o}glich? Am Beispiel umstrittener Heiligt{\"u}mer lebender Kulturen untersucht Christoph Balzar das Verfahren der Musealisierung durch die Linse der Diskriminierungskritik. Im Fokus stehen dabei die Sammlungen der »Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin«.},
  language  = {de}
}