Recollecting Bones
- In the same “guarded, roundabout and reticent way” which Lindsay Barrett invokes for Australian conversations about imperial injustice, Germans, too, must begin to more systematically explore, in Paul Gilroy’s words, “the connections and the differences between anti-semitism and anti-black and other racisms and asses[s] the issues that arise when it can no longer be denied that they interacted over a long time in what might be seen as Fascism’s intellectual, ethical and scientific pre-history” (Gilroy 1996: 26). In the meantime, we need to care for the dead. We need to return them, first, from the status of scientific objects to the status of ancestral human beings, and then progressively, and proactively, as close as possible to the care of those communities from whom they were stolen.
Author details: | Lars EcksteinORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103278 |
Subtitle (German): | The Remains of German-Australian Colonial Entanglements |
Publication type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2017/03/21 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2017/03/21 |
Number of pages: | 20 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 147 |