TY - BOOK ID - 46365315 TI - Potential History : Unlearning Imperialism PY - 2019 SN - 9781788735711 9781788735704 9781788735735 9781788735728 1788735706 1788735714 PB - London Verso DB - UniCat KW - Azoulay, Ariella KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Colonisation. Decolonisation KW - imperialisme KW - politieke filosofie KW - art criticism KW - fonds [collections] KW - #breakthecanon KW - Imperialism KW - Knowledge, Sociology of KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Imperialism. KW - Knowledge, Sociology of. KW - Philosophy. KW - #SBIB:93H3 KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:316.7C120 KW - #SBIB:316.7C310 KW - Thematische geschiedenis KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Cultuursociologie: algemene en theoretische werken KW - Cultuurbeleid: algemeen KW - History - Philosophy KW - social criticism KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - World history KW - Anerkennung. KW - Archives KW - Fotografie. KW - Freiheit. KW - Fundament. KW - Geschichtsphilosophie. KW - Gewalt. KW - Histoire KW - Imperialismus. KW - Impérialisme. KW - Kolonialismus. KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Museums KW - Musées KW - Politik. KW - Postkolonialismus. KW - Reparations for historical injustices. KW - Réparations des crimes de l'histoire. KW - Savoir et érudition KW - Sociologie de la connaissance. KW - Wiedergutmachung. KW - Wissen. KW - Wissenssoziologie. KW - sociology of knowledge. KW - Acquisition KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Acquisitions KW - Aspect moral. KW - Philosophie. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46365315 AB - A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we shareIn this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums.By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions—an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums—to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics.Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as “past” and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics. (Provided by publisher) ER -