(English Episode) The colonial heritage is still present in German cityscapes, as decolonial and postcolonial city walking tours all over Germany illustrate. Annika talked to Jule, a member of the civil-society initiative “Decolonize Erfurt”. With Jule's insights and academic research, we will find replies to the questions: How on earth can a city tour be decolonial? How visible is colonialism in German streets? What does racism have to do with cultural memory? Why does “Decolonize Erfurt” want to rename a street and a pharmacy? Has Germany ever critically evaluated its colonial past? How can decolonial city tours be “glocal” – global and local at once?
Find the main sources mentioned in this episode:
Decolonize Erfurt: https://decolonizeerfurt.wordpress.com
Pamphlet about the Nettelbeckufer: https://decolonizeerfurt.wordpress.com/infobroschure-zum-nettelbeckufer/
A Decolonial Map of Germany: https://tearthisdown.com
Western Colonialism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Western-colonialism
Cultural Memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrECyLpL_gY
Britta Schilling (2015). German Postcolonialism in Four Dimensions: A Historical Perspective, Postcolonial Studies, 18:4, 427-439, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2015.1191988
Christoffer Kølvraa & Britta Timm Knudsen (2020). Decolonizing European Colonial Heritage in Urban Spaces – An Introduction to the Special Issue, Heritage & Society, 13:1-2, 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2021.1888370
Grada Kilomba (2010). Plantation Memories. Episodes of Everyday Racism. Unrast.
Viviann Moana Wilmot, Mirjam Elomda, Cécile Stehrenberger and Urs Lindner in a conversation with Naomie Gramlich and Jana Mangold (2020). Erfurt dekolonisieren. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 12:22, 106-120, http://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13660
The interview was recorded in January 2022 via Zoom.
Music: Ali Daniel – A peine défigurée, Robert John – Surface, M33 Project – On va exister
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