Historiography and Research Problems of Slavery and the Slave Trade in a Global-Historical Perspective

Zeuske, Michael

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“…Despite the great efforts from a wide range of heritage organisations, scholars and academics, we still face epistemic colonialism based on (1) geo-political influences, (2) European and Western phenomenology and existentialism (geo-historical), and (3) the convergence of technology and knowledge systems in which current Western, and particularly Anglo-centres of research and education, have produced a 'universal' set of knowledge that is widely accepted (geo-cultural) (Mignolo 2002). According to Zeuske (2012) up to 80% of the world's research on the history of slavery comes from the USA, 10% from Brazil, followed by Great Britain (commonly linked to the USA), Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the Baltic States. British involvement in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the ongoing impact is a particularly under researched area, especially when compared to the USA.…”

Section: Breaking Colonialismmentioning

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Afrobits: An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

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Murrieta-Flores

Radburn

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Electronic Workshops in Computing

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This paper introduces Afrobits, an interactive installation about African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Its main aim is to bring to light invisible stories hidden behind geographic epistemologies. The installation highlights the contribution that African cultures had on the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the world, such as popular music. Although it covers diverse countries, we focused on the Americas, placing emphasis on Latin-America as the biopolitical space that enabled the integration of native cultures with African peoples. As this project involved web scientists, graphic designers, historians, digital humanists and artists, we also discuss the benefits of interdisciplinary research; contributions from University researchers for the development of storytelling projects for the Cultural Heritage sector; and the implementation of complex technologies and research methods.

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Section: Breaking Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Afrobits: An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

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Murrieta-Flores

Radburn

et al. 2020

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Yet Another Half Untold

Wright

2017

The Poverty of Slavery

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Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda

Rossum

2021

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This article argues that we need to move beyond the “Atlantic” and “formal” bias in our understanding of the history of slavery. It explores ways forward toward developing a better understanding of the long-term global transformations of slavery. Firstly, it claims we should revisit the historical and contemporary development of slavery by adopting a wider scope that accounts for the adaptable and persistent character of different forms of slavery. Secondly, it stresses the importance of substantially expanding the body of empirical observations on trajectories of slavery regimes, especially outside the Atlantic, and most notable in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago worlds, where different slavery regimes existed and developed in interaction. Thirdly, it proposes an integrated analytical framework that will overcome the current fragmentation of research perspectives and allow for a more comparative analysis of the trajectories of slavery regimes in their highly diverse formal and especially informal manifestations. Fourth, the article shows how an integrated framework will enable a collaborative research agenda that focuses not only on comparisons, but also on connections and interactions. It calls for a closer integration of the histories of informal slavery regimes into the wider body of existing scholarship on slavery and its transformations in the Atlantic and other more intensely studied formal slavery regimes. In this way, we can renew and extend our understandings of slavery's long-term, global transformations.

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Historiography and Research Problems of Slavery and the Slave Trade in a Global-Historical Perspective

Cited by 13 publications

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Afrobits: An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Afrobits: An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Yet Another Half Untold

Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda

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