Digital media revitalising colonial heritage
The George Floyd video translocalized in Denmark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5700906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B T Knudsen (0000-0002-1804-7232, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Shama Patel (0000-0001-5096-0198, Copenhagen Business School) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1041-1060 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231917 |
| OpenAlex | W4384695004 |
| Language | IT |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
In this paper, we analyse how the colonial spectrality of the George Floyd video translocalises from the United States to Denmark to form heritage assemblages of solidarity, removal and repression that re-vitalize the colonial past and anti-racist protests in contemporary contexts. Through our analysis, we unfold the affective capacities of the Floyd video and its memetic mutations that mobilize publics against asymmetries inherited from colonialism and invent new forms of activism. We show that while protester tactics following Floyd demonstrate a reflexive distribution of subjectivities and positionalities, minority voices and efforts to remove symbols of colonialism are condemned and suppressed in Denmark. Our main contribution is to include digital media into heritage assemblages as an affective device. A second contribution is presenting digital epidemiography as an affective methodology to remotely study transient and unpredictable global events, through an analysis of digital traces found on the internet. A third contribution is the knowledge of how post-Floyd heritage assemblages in Denmark position this Scandinavian country as a former colonizer in the decolonial turn
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Cultural heritage · Digital media · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Music History and Culture
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The Spectatorship of Suffering
Affective Publics
The Skin of the Film
Qualitative evaluation and research methods
Heritage
Ghostly Matters
Protest avatars as memetic signifiers
Connective witnessing
Distant Suffering
Affective Infrastructures of Re-emergence? Exploring Modalities of Heritage Practices in Nantes
Media witnessing and the ripeness of time
It Gets Better”
Utopia in Practise
De-framing disaster
The Aptness of Anger
Dissonant heritage
Revolting Things
Affective Methodologies
The London bombings
New Philosophy of Society
Frames of war
The Logic of Connective Action
The Autonomy of Affect
Memes in a Digital World
Affective politics and colonial heritage, Rhodes Must Fall at UCT and Oxford
Translocality
Épistémologies du Sud
Specters of Marx
Doing Violence, Making Race
Delinking
On the Coloniality of Being
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |