@misc{BarrettEcksteinHurleyetal.2018, author = {Barrett, Lindsay and Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew Wright and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement}, series = {Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy}, volume = {21}, journal = {Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1368-8790}, doi = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671}, pages = {1 -- 5}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2018, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting bones}, series = {Postcolonial Studies}, volume = {21}, journal = {Postcolonial Studies}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1368-8790}, doi = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146}, pages = {6 -- 19}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific 'disinterest'. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinSchwarz2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {The making of Tupaia's map}, series = {The journal of pacific history}, volume = {54}, journal = {The journal of pacific history}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {London}, issn = {0022-3344}, doi = {10.1080/00223344.2018.1512369}, pages = {1 -- 95}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Tupaia's Map is one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from the early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders. It was drawn by Tupaia, an arioi priest, chiefly advisor and master navigator from Ra'iātea in the Leeward Society Islands in collaboration with various members of the crew of James Cook's Endeavour, in two distinct moments of mapmaking and three draft stages between August 1769 and February 1770. To this day, the identity of many islands on the chart, and the logic of their arrangement have posed a riddle to researchers. Drawing in part on archival material hitherto overlooked, in this long essay we propose a new understanding of the chart's cartographic logic, offer a detailed reconstruction of its genesis, and thus for the first time present a comprehensive reading of Tupaia's Map. The chart not only underscores the extent and mastery of Polynesian navigation, it is also a remarkable feat of translation between two very different wayfinding systems and their respective representational models.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Eckstein2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting bones}, series = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, booktitle = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-42159-5}, pages = {22 -- 35}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinHurley2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew}, title = {German-Australian Colonial Entanglements}, series = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, journal = {Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglements}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-42159-5}, pages = {1 -- 21}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th-century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs, and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation.}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Reflections of Lus{\´a}ni Ciss{\´e}}, series = {Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts}, journal = {Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-42805-8}, doi = {10.1163/9789004437456_010}, pages = {147 -- 161}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2018, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting bones}, volume = {21}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1368-8790}, doi = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146}, pages = {6 -- 19}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific 'disinterest'. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinPeitschSchwarz2017, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Peitsch, Helmut and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Tusitalas Wandlungen}, series = {Pazifikismus : Poetiken des Stillen Ozeans}, journal = {Pazifikismus : Poetiken des Stillen Ozeans}, publisher = {K{\"o}nigshausen \& Neumann}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, isbn = {978-3-8260-6169-1}, pages = {443 -- 460}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{Eckstein2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Lyrics als Paradigma einer anderen Moderne: M.I.A.s 'Galang'}, series = {Lyrik/lyrics : Songtexte als Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft}, journal = {Lyrik/lyrics : Songtexte als Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft}, publisher = {Wallenstein}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, isbn = {978-3-8353-3381-9}, pages = {173 -- 192}, year = {2019}, language = {de} } @book{EcksteinBartelsWalleretal.2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Bartels, Anke and Waller, Nicole and Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction}, publisher = {Metzler}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-476-02674-3}, pages = {V, 202}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Postcoloniale Literatur bezeichnet die nationalen anglophonen Literaturen in den Amerikas, Asien, Afrika und Ozeanien (zeitweise auch New English Literatures genannt). Eine Darstellung nach Regionen ist wegen der migrantischen Bewegungen der Autor/innen allerdings nicht zu leisten. Daher behandelt der Band die zentralen Themen der postkolonialen Debatte, die jeweils Autor/innen aus verschiedenen Regionen betreffen.}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinWiemann2017, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Kleine Kosmopolitismen}, series = {Global Citizenship - Perspektiven einer Weltgemeinschaft}, journal = {Global Citizenship - Perspektiven einer Weltgemeinschaft}, publisher = {Steidel}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, isbn = {978-3-95829-211-6}, pages = {44 -- 53}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinSchwarz2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Vision d'une mer faite d'{\^i}les: la carte de Tupaia (1769-1770)}, series = {Bulletin de la Soci{\´e}t{\´e} des Etudes Oc{\´e}aniennes : Polyn{\´e}sie Orientale}, volume = {347}, journal = {Bulletin de la Soci{\´e}t{\´e} des Etudes Oc{\´e}aniennes : Polyn{\´e}sie Orientale}, number = {Janvier / Avril}, publisher = {Soc.}, address = {Papeete}, issn = {0373-8957}, pages = {6 -- 23}, year = {2019}, language = {fr} } @misc{EcksteinSchwarz2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Authors' Response: The Making of Tupaia's Map Revisited}, series = {The journal of pacific history}, volume = {54}, journal = {The journal of pacific history}, number = {4}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, issn = {1469-9605}, doi = {10.1080/00223344.2019.1657500}, pages = {549 -- 561}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @misc{EcksteinSchwarz2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {La carte de Tupaia, ma{\^i}tre d'astres et de navigation polyn{\´e}sienne}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {170}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44538}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445381}, pages = {156}, year = {2019}, abstract = {La carte de Tupaia constitue l'un des art{\´e}facts les plus c{\´e}l{\`e}bres et les plus {\´e}nigmatiques {\`a} {\´e}merger des toutes premi{\`e}res rencontres entre Europ{\´e}ens et {\^i}liens du Pacifique. Elle a {\´e}t{\´e} {\´e}labor{\´e}e entre ao{\^u}t 1769 et f{\´e}vrier 1770 par Tupaia, pr{\^e}tre 'arioi, conseiller royal et ma{\^i}tre de navigation originaire de Ra'iātea, aux {\^I}les Sous-le-Vent de la Soci{\´e}t{\´e}. En collaboration avec divers membres d'{\´e}quipage de l'Endeavour de James Cook, en deux temps distincts de cartographie et trois {\´e}bauches. L'identit{\´e} de bien des {\^i}les qui y figurent et la logique de leur agencement demeuraient jusqu'{\`a} pr{\´e}sent des {\´e}nigmes. En se fiant en partie {\`a} des pi{\`e}ces d'archives rest{\´e}es ignor{\´e}es, nous proposons, dans ce long essai, une nouvelle compr{\´e}hension de sa logique cartographique, une reconstitution d{\´e}taill{\´e}e de sa gen{\`e}se et donc, pour la toute premi{\`e}re fois, une lecture exhaustive. La carte de Tupaia n'illustre pas seulement la magnitude et la ma{\^i}trise de la navigation polyn{\´e}sienne, elle r{\´e}alise aussi une remarquable synth{\`e}se repr{\´e}sentationnelle de deux syst{\`e}mes d'orientation tr{\`e}s diff{\´e}rents.}, language = {fr} } @article{Eckstein2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Sound matters: postcolonial critique for a viral age}, series = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, volume = {13}, journal = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, publisher = {American Geophysical Union}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1478-8810}, doi = {10.1080/14788810.2016.1216222}, pages = {445 -- 456}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This essay proposes a reorientation in postcolonial studies that takes account of the transcultural realities of the viral twenty-first century. This reorientation entails close attention to actual performances, their specific medial embeddedness, and their entanglement in concrete formal or informal material conditions. It suggests that rather than a focus on print and writing favoured by theories in the wake of the linguistic turn, performed lyrics and sounds may be better suited to guide the conceptual work. Accordingly, the essay chooses a classic of early twentieth-century digital music - M.I.A.'s 2003/2005 single "Galang" - as its guiding example. It ultimately leads up to a reflection on what Ravi Sundaram coined as "pirate modernity," which challenges us to rethink notions of artistic authorship and authority, hegemony and subversion, culture and theory in the postcolonial world of today.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{EcksteinHurley2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew Wright}, title = {German-Australian Colonial Entanglements}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44449}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-444490}, pages = {30}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th-century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs, and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation.}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinSchwarz2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {La carte de Tupaia, ma{\^i}tre d'astres et de navigation polyn{\´e}sienne}, series = {Bulletin de la Societ{\´e} des {\´E}tudes Oc{\´e}aniennes (Polyn{\´e}sie orientale)}, volume = {Mai/Ao{\^u}t 2019}, journal = {Bulletin de la Societ{\´e} des {\´E}tudes Oc{\´e}aniennes (Polyn{\´e}sie orientale)}, number = {348}, publisher = {Soci{\´e}t{\´e} des {\´e}tudes oc{\´e}aniennes}, address = {Tahiti}, issn = {2605-8375}, pages = {7 -- 152}, year = {2019}, abstract = {La carte de Tupaia constitue l'un des art{\´e}facts les plus c{\´e}l{\`e}bres et les plus {\´e}nigmatiques {\`a} {\´e}merger des toutes premi{\`e}res rencontres entre Europ{\´e}ens et {\^i}liens du Pacifique. Elle a {\´e}t{\´e} {\´e}labor{\´e}e entre ao{\^u}t 1769 et f{\´e}vrier 1770 par Tupaia, pr{\^e}tre 'arioi, conseiller royal et ma{\^i}tre de navigation originaire de Ra'iātea, aux {\^I}les Sous-le-Vent de la Soci{\´e}t{\´e}. En collaboration avec divers membres d'{\´e}quipage de l'Endeavour de James Cook, en deux temps distincts de cartographie et trois {\´e}bauches. L'identit{\´e} de bien des {\^i}les qui y figurent et la logique de leur agencement demeuraient jusqu'{\`a} pr{\´e}sent des {\´e}nigmes. En se fiant en partie {\`a} des pi{\`e}ces d'archives rest{\´e}es ignor{\´e}es, nous proposons, dans ce long essai, une nouvelle compr{\´e}hension de sa logique cartographique, une reconstitution d{\´e}taill{\´e}e de sa gen{\`e}se et donc, pour la toute premi{\`e}re fois, une lecture exhaustive. La carte de Tupaia n'illustre pas seulement la magnitude et la ma{\^i}trise de la navigation polyn{\´e}sienne, elle r{\´e}alise aussi une remarquable synth{\`e}se repr{\´e}sentationnelle de deux syst{\`e}mes d'orientation tr{\`e}s diff{\´e}rents.}, language = {fr} } @misc{EcksteinSchwarz2018, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {The Making of Tupaia's Map}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Philosophische Reihe}, number = {154}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42309}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423091}, pages = {96}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Tupaia's Map is one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from the early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders. It was drawn by Tupaia, an arioi priest, chiefly advisor and master navigator from Ra'iātea in the Leeward Society Islands in collaboration with various members of the crew of James Cook's Endeavour, in two distinct moments of mapmaking and three draft stages between August 1769 and February 1770. To this day, the identity of many islands on the chart, and the logic of their arrangement have posed a riddle to researchers. Drawing in part on archival material hitherto overlooked, in this long essay we propose a new understanding of the chart's cartographic logic, offer a detailed reconstruction of its genesis, and thus for the first time present a comprehensive reading of Tupaia's Map. The chart not only underscores the extent and mastery of Polynesian navigation, it is also a remarkable feat of translation between two very different wayfinding systems and their respective representational models.}, language = {en} } @misc{Eckstein2018, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting bones}, series = {Postcolonial Studies}, journal = {Postcolonial Studies}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413654}, pages = {15}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific disinterest'. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2015, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Maps drawn on the sand: of mimicry and depropriation on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition}, series = {Journal of Australian studies}, volume = {39}, journal = {Journal of Australian studies}, number = {4}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1444-3058}, doi = {10.1080/14443058.2015.1076024}, pages = {512 -- 528}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In this essay, I explore various politics of mimicry on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition. Following Michael Taussig, I read mimicry as embedded in a complex economy of gift exchange which disrupts the binary categories of self and other, subject and object, man and nature. Mimetic exchanges, in other words, bear the potential for a non-dualistic dynamics of depropriation, a dynamics which may be avowed or disavowed by various actors in the colonial encounter. Focussing on three actors in particularLudwig Leichhardt himself, his British botanist Daniel Bunce, and the intriguing figure of Mr Turner, an Indigenous AustralianI trace the ways in which mimicry-as-depropriation is dealt with across the colonial archive.}, language = {en} }