Lars Eckstein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 356123 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lars Eckstein |
| PRENOMES | Lars |
| SOBRENOME | Eckstein |
| ASSINATURA | ECKSTEIN L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0848-6343 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Tupaia’s Wind Positioning System
This essay reconstructs a complex ‘wind positioning system’ which the Ra’iātean tahu’a Tupaia shared with James Cook and select officers of his crew in 1769. It sets an array of scattered traces in the colonial archive in conversation with the more recent teachings of Te Aliki Koloso Kaveia of Taumako. The essay systematically compiles and connects evidence that Tupaia’s rua mata’i and Kaveia’s te nohoanga te matangi offered related cognitive mod…
Hawaiki According to Tupaia
This essay looks into the concept of an ancestral homeland in Remote Oceania, commonly referred to as Hawaiki (‘Avaiki; Havai‘i; Hawai‘i). Hawaiki intriguingly challenges Eurocentric notions of ‘home.’ Following the rapid settlement of the so-called Polynesian triangle from Samoa/Tonga at around 1000 AD, Hawaiki has emerged as a concept that is both mythological and real; genealogical and geographic; singular and yet portable, existing in plural …
Postcolonial Literatures in English
The term 'postcolonial literatures in English' designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved f
Postcolonial Futures
Postcolonialism often seems to be concerned with the past. While a critical view of the past, and in particular a critique of the history established by imperial powers, is a crucial part of postcolonial work, a simplistic reduction of the ‘postcolonial’ to dealing with the past is itself the result of colonialism’s temporality, of colonizers’ strategic use and conceptions of time. As many postcolonialist critics have argued, colonialist temporal…
Interlude
In postcolonial studies, the term has been applied to a wide range of contexts of domination. Empires have been categorized as ancient or modern (e. g., the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire, respectively), colonial or postcolonial (the Portuguese Empire and global Empire), empires of rule and empires of settlement (the Soviet Union is an example of the former; the French Empire and British Empire were both), pre-industrial and post-indust…
Postcolonial Oceans
In the Western literary imagination, oceans are overwhelmingly the space of White male endeavor. From William Shakespeare’s Prospero to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, from Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab to Joseph Conrad’s Charles Marlowe, the heroes and anti-heroes of canonic seafaring narratives, be they aristocrats or traders, captains, sailors or castaways, figure as the core agents of Western globalization. Even if increasingly haunted by th…
Interlude
Epistemic violence is a concept introduced to postcolonial studies by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988, see also ch. 5). Originally, Michel Foucault developed the idea of the episteme in Western thought in History of Madness and continued its exploration in The Order of Things. According to his definition, an episteme is the anonymous codification and structure which determines the knowledge for…
The Making of Tupaia’s Map
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…
Authors’ Response
We are sincerely thankful to the Journal of Pacific History for hosting a discussion of our research on Tupaia's Map and for inviting responses to our findings from colleagues on whose writings we
Recollecting bones
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…
Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement
The role of German actors in European colonialisms, especially before the foundation of the German nation state in 1871 and Germany’s entry into imperialism proper with the so-called protectorates
Postcolonial Piracy
Sound matters
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 ly…
Maps drawn on the sand
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 ac…
Postcolonial Piracy
Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marg…
Some Reflections on Entangled Knowledge and Decolonisation
T.S. Eliot und das Transkulturell-Erhabene
Torpedoing the authorship of popular music
This article addresses problems of authorship and creative authority in popular music, in particular in view of a pervasive split between modes of aesthetic production (involving modernist assemblage, multiple authorship, and the late capitalist logic of major label policies) and modes of aesthetic reception (which tend to take popular music as the organic output of individual performers). While rock musicians have attempted to come to terms with…
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novel…
Ekphrastic Memory in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress and the Politics of Aestheticist Transfiguration
When we discuss contemporary re-writings of Atlantic slavery, we are concerned with questions of memory, both as a textual quality and as a cultural force. In a textual sense, memory confronts us as a form of “literary archaeology”, as such texts tend to self-consciously employ older representations of slavery - textual representations such as slave narratives, but one may also think of visual or musical material - in their referential framework.…
The Pitfalls of Picturing Atlantic Slavery
The task of remembering the transatlantic slave trade poses a particular challenge to historians and artists alike. Not only does it revolve around an emotionally and ideologically loaded issue, there is also rather little documentary and testimonial evidence to draw upon, particularly so regarding the Africans' view of the trade. To make things worse, the most important and often quoted source - the second chapter of Olaudah Equiano's Interestin…
The Making of Tupaia’s Map
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…
Recollecting bones
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…
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novel…
Sound matters
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 ly…
Torpedoing the authorship of popular music
This article addresses problems of authorship and creative authority in popular music, in particular in view of a pervasive split between modes of aesthetic production (involving modernist assemblage, multiple authorship, and the late capitalist logic of major label policies) and modes of aesthetic reception (which tend to take popular music as the organic output of individual performers). While rock musicians have attempted to come to terms with…
The Pitfalls of Picturing Atlantic Slavery
The task of remembering the transatlantic slave trade poses a particular challenge to historians and artists alike. Not only does it revolve around an emotionally and ideologically loaded issue, there is also rather little documentary and testimonial evidence to draw upon, particularly so regarding the Africans' view of the trade. To make things worse, the most important and often quoted source - the second chapter of Olaudah Equiano's Interestin…
Ekphrastic Memory in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress and the Politics of Aestheticist Transfiguration
When we discuss contemporary re-writings of Atlantic slavery, we are concerned with questions of memory, both as a textual quality and as a cultural force. In a textual sense, memory confronts us as a form of “literary archaeology”, as such texts tend to self-consciously employ older representations of slavery - textual representations such as slave narratives, but one may also think of visual or musical material - in their referential framework.…
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+ provides an encompassing survey of artistic responses to the changes in the British cultural climate in the early years of the 21st century. It traces topical reactions to new forms of racism and religious fundamentalism, to legal as well as ‘illegal’ immigration, and to the threat of global terror; yet it also highlights new forms of intercultural communication and convivial exchange. Framed by contributions from novel…
Torpedoing the authorship of popular music
This article addresses problems of authorship and creative authority in popular music, in particular in view of a pervasive split between modes of aesthetic production (involving modernist assemblage, multiple authorship, and the late capitalist logic of major label policies) and modes of aesthetic reception (which tend to take popular music as the organic output of individual performers). While rock musicians have attempted to come to terms with…
T.S. Eliot und das Transkulturell-Erhabene
Some Reflections on Entangled Knowledge and Decolonisation
Postcolonial Piracy
Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marg…
Maps drawn on the sand
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 ac…
Postcolonial Piracy
Sound matters
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 ly…
Recollecting bones
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…
Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement
The role of German actors in European colonialisms, especially before the foundation of the German nation state in 1871 and Germany’s entry into imperialism proper with the so-called protectorates
Postcolonial Literatures in English
The term 'postcolonial literatures in English' designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved f
Postcolonial Futures
Postcolonialism often seems to be concerned with the past. While a critical view of the past, and in particular a critique of the history established by imperial powers, is a crucial part of postcolonial work, a simplistic reduction of the ‘postcolonial’ to dealing with the past is itself the result of colonialism’s temporality, of colonizers’ strategic use and conceptions of time. As many postcolonialist critics have argued, colonialist temporal…
Interlude
In postcolonial studies, the term has been applied to a wide range of contexts of domination. Empires have been categorized as ancient or modern (e. g., the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire, respectively), colonial or postcolonial (the Portuguese Empire and global Empire), empires of rule and empires of settlement (the Soviet Union is an example of the former; the French Empire and British Empire were both), pre-industrial and post-indust…
Postcolonial Oceans
In the Western literary imagination, oceans are overwhelmingly the space of White male endeavor. From William Shakespeare’s Prospero to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, from Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab to Joseph Conrad’s Charles Marlowe, the heroes and anti-heroes of canonic seafaring narratives, be they aristocrats or traders, captains, sailors or castaways, figure as the core agents of Western globalization. Even if increasingly haunted by th…
Interlude
Epistemic violence is a concept introduced to postcolonial studies by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988, see also ch. 5). Originally, Michel Foucault developed the idea of the episteme in Western thought in History of Madness and continued its exploration in The Order of Things. According to his definition, an episteme is the anonymous codification and structure which determines the knowledge for…
The Making of Tupaia’s Map
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…
Authors’ Response
We are sincerely thankful to the Journal of Pacific History for hosting a discussion of our research on Tupaia's Map and for inviting responses to our findings from colleagues on whose writings we
Hawaiki According to Tupaia
This essay looks into the concept of an ancestral homeland in Remote Oceania, commonly referred to as Hawaiki (‘Avaiki; Havai‘i; Hawai‘i). Hawaiki intriguingly challenges Eurocentric notions of ‘home.’ Following the rapid settlement of the so-called Polynesian triangle from Samoa/Tonga at around 1000 AD, Hawaiki has emerged as a concept that is both mythological and real; genealogical and geographic; singular and yet portable, existing in plural …
Tupaia’s Wind Positioning System
This essay reconstructs a complex ‘wind positioning system’ which the Ra’iātean tahu’a Tupaia shared with James Cook and select officers of his crew in 1769. It sets an array of scattered traces in the colonial archive in conversation with the more recent teachings of Te Aliki Koloso Kaveia of Taumako. The essay systematically compiles and connects evidence that Tupaia’s rua mata’i and Kaveia’s te nohoanga te matangi offered related cognitive mod…
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