Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in the Netherlands

By Markus Balkenhol

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country's slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of "trace" as a seminal notion to explore this paradox, this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past - often in almost unconscious ways - and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800731604
• ISBN13: 9781800731608
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"