Scotland's Transnational Heritage

Legacies of Empire and Slavery

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9351-2 (ISBN)

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This book draws on practitioner expertise in the academic and heritage sector to re-think the way that the transnational histories of Scotland are being told today.

Scotland’s Transnational Heritage draws on the expertise of academics, museum professionals and creative practitioners working together to re-think the way that the transnational histories of Scotland are being told today. It emphasises Scotland’s role in networks of colonialism and outlines new historical examples of how Scottish trades and institutions benefitted from Empire. It gathers examples of contemporary case studies and innovative practices in storytelling that engage and inform. The book aims to inspire heritage and museum staff and academics to create new approaches to these histories, both in Scotland and beyond. Within the current context of calls to decolonise both the museum and the academy, this is a timely snapshot of the exciting and diverse work taking place in the field in Scotland today.

Emma Bond is Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies at the University of Oxford and was Principal Investigator of the ‘Transnational Scotland’ network (2019–20). She has published widely on transnational, border and migration cultures, including the monograph Writing Migration through the Body (2018) and the co-edited volume Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative (2015).

Foreword: Fostering Recognition under the Luxury of Amnesia, Alberta Whittle

1. An Introduction to Scotland’s Transnational Heritage: Sites, Things and Time(s), Emma Bond (University of Oxford)

Part I: Transnational Sites

2. Tartan: Its Journey Through the African Diaspora, Teleica Kirkland

3. Textiles in Transition. Linen, Jute, and the Dundee Region’s Transnational Networks, c. 1740- c. 1880, Sally Tuckett (University of Glasgow) and Christopher A. Whatley (University of Dundee)

4. Some Things Can’t Be Unknown – Sharing History with My Neighbours, Jeni Reid

5. Black History Walking Tours Edinburgh, Lisa Williams (Edinburgh Caribbean Association / University of Edinburgh)

Part II: Transnational Things

6. The East India Company and Scotland: Tracing the Recovery and Reappraisal of a Transnational Corporation, Bashabi Fraser

7. The Matter of Slavery at National Museums Scotland, Sarah Laurenson (National Museums Scotland)

8. Paisley’s Empire: Representation, Collection and Display, Joel Fagan (Paisley Museum)

9. Telling a Fuller Story: Scottish Design, Empire and Transnational Heritage at V&A Dundee, Meredith More (V&A Dundee) and Rosie Spooner (University of Glasgow)

Part III: Transnational Time(s)

10. Storywalking as Transnational Method: From Juteopolis to Sugaropolis, Mona Bozdog

11. Digital Museum Objects and Transnational Histories, Nicôle Meehan (University of St Andrews)

12. Decolonising University Histories: Reflections on Research into African, Asian and Caribbean Students at Edinburgh, UncoverED

13. Avowing Slavery in the Visual Arts, Michael Morris (University of Dundee)

Afterword. Building Solidarity: Moving Towards the Repatriation of the House of Ni’isjoohl Totem Pole, Amy Parent, Noxs Ts’aawit, with William Moore, Sim’oogit Duuk

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	25 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-9351-3 / 1474493513
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-9351-2 / 9781474493512
Zustand	Neuware