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AHM Conference 2023: 'Diasporic Heritage and Identity'
Located at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) is a research institute and doctoral school committed to the analysis of the remnants and narratives of the past in the present, as well as of the remaking of pasts into heritage, memory and material culture. AHM fosters dynamic, interdisciplinary and transnational research of heritage and memory, and brings together researchers working in diverse areas and fields heritage and memory studies, cultural studies, museum studies, archaeology and material culture, art history, conservation and restoration, media and archival studies, digital humanities, postcolonial and performative studies, conflict and identity studies, religious studies, music and theatre studies, Slavonic languages and cultures, Holocaust and genocide studies, European memory studies, Middle Eastern studies, and cultural, public and oral history. Continue reading...
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- Conference date: June 21, 2023 - June 23, 2023
- Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- ISBN: 9789048562220
- Volume number: 2
- Published: 21 June 2023
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- Urban Dynamics of Diasporic and Colonial Heritage
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oa Routes and Places of Counter-Memory of Colonialism in Italy. Porta Venezia: A Case of Reappropriation of Space and Memory by the Habesha Community
More LessIn the aftermath of the racist murder of George Floyd, racialised people in several Western European cities protested against the presence of monuments and statues celebrating colonialism in the public space. In the wake of the demonstrations, contestations and bottom-up “city decolonisation” initiatives multiplied in Italy. These latter consist of counter-memory pathways and actions of re-signification of the so cal Read More
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oa Diasporic Heritage and Identity in Urban Space: The Case of Izmir, Turkey
More LessSocial change dynamics and debates such as migration are at the forefront of the phenomena that determine and affect the ways in which individuals and societies' search for identity as well as the construction of cultural heritage. The migration of people living on the same lands for centuries to other settlements causes an intercultural interaction with a physical change in the urban space and the formation of urban i Read More
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oa “Finding the Orphaned Irish Parts of Me” at the New Cut: Defining Self-Identity Through Encountering an Archaeological Site
More LessAuthors: Harriet Sams, Vanessa Heaslip & Timothy DarvillThis paper presents a case study of a participant’s experience of exploring and connecting to the New Cut docks, in Bristol, UK, which had been excavated by Irish immigrant labourers between 1804 to 1809. This particular site was sought out by the British born, second generation Irish participant to “find the orphaned, Irish parts of me”, in order to explore the potential for healing self-determined aspects of personal ide Read More
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- Legacies of Colonialism
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oa Archival Optimism and Archival Pessimism: The Case of Javanese-Surinamese Diasporic Heritage in the Netherlands
More LessBeing Javanese-Surinamese in the Netherlands constitutes a double diasporic identity. When slavery ended in Suriname in the late nineteenth century, the Dutch colonial administration brought indentured laborers from the East Indies (now Indonesia) to work on Caribbean plantations. A century later, around Suriname’s independence in 1975, many of its residents relocated to the Netherlands. At present, in Suriname and Read More
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oa “Make America Great Again”: (De)Colonising Masculinities in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (2017)
More LessOne of the defining characteristics of Trump’s politics has been the appeal to hatred and fear of refugees and immigrants. Yet, the current xenophobia in the US has deep roots. In as much as the U.S. has been built by immigrants, it has also been built on genocide, slavery, and colonialism. Born in Vietnam and raised in the US, Viet Thanh Nguyen, the author of the best-selling and award-winning novel The Symp Read More
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oa “You Should Be Grateful for this Opportunity”: An Autoethnography on the Injustice in Doctoral Research in Francophone Belgium
More LessGlobal South researchers have encountered several challenges that have posed significant obstacles to their mobility, especially with the strict global immigration policies. The consequences of these obstacles have made it challenging for Global South researchers to move freely and access scientific opportunities in the Global North, which has become the hub of scientific research. The disparities in scientific resources betwe Read More
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- Exploring Diaspora Through Transitional Justice
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oa Diasporas Building Memory and Peace: The Role of the Diaspora with the Colombian Truth Commission
More LessAuthors: Sílvia Plana & Kristian HerbolzheimerOver the past years, there has been a trend to promote more inclusive peace processes to foster more transformative and sustainable results in the quest for building peace. At a time of extremely high numbers of refugees and migrants worldwide, this article argues for the need to ensure that people living in the diaspora who are committed to human rights, democracy and peace in their home country can continue their a Read More
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oa Reparations After a Century of White Supremacy Set in Stone: Confederate Statues in the Transitional Justice Debate
More LessConfederate monuments in the United States of America are part of a public, emotional debate that is increasingly heated since the events in Charleston in 2015, Charlottesville in 2017, and the murder of George Floyd in 2020. This work focuses on the potential impact of transitional justice mechanisms on the Confederate monument debate in the Southern United States. The ‘monument debate’ ties into the theme of diasp Read More
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- Imaginaries of Diasporic Heritage
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oa Rethinking Kurdishness at European Kurdish Film Festivals: A Decolonial Diasporic Effort
More LessBy Fatma EdemenThis paper explores the role of Kurdish film festivals in Europe as sites of diasporic heritage, cultural memory, and decolonization. The festivals, which prioritize audience development and community engagement, aim to represent the stateless Kurdish nation and build supportive communities that advocate for Kurdish national recognition. The festivals also provide a space for diasporic communities to express thei Read More
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oa Music and Memorialization: Narrative of Return in SVPD’s Made in Jaffna (2021)
More LessAlthough BIPOC artists have been dominating global popular music charts in recent years, certain artists’ music centre on narratives shaped by socio-political turmoil. The Sri Lankan civil war (1983 – 2009) resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Tamil peoples as well as one of the largest refugee crises in the twentieth century. This ethnoreligious divide between the Sinhala Buddhist majority and the Tamil Hindu minority continues t Read More
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oa Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s “A Charwoman’s Career Memories of Germany”: Prosthetic Imagination and Masquerade
More LessBy Gonca YalçınThis paper explores Turkish-German diasporic memory formations performed within the intersections of a politics of remembrance, issues of ethnicised migration and a sexual politics. Situated within a performance studies context, it analyses Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s short story “A Charwoman’s Career Memories of Germany” which follows the perspective of a Turkish woman who migrates into Germany as a guest Read More
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- Diasporic Identities in Conflict and Postconflict Society
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oa How Identities Become Crucial in Contemporary Conflicts and Interactions: Intangible Heritage in the Russo-Ukrainian War
More LessBy Zeyu JiangThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the national identities related to the Russo-Ukrainian War. The text highlights historical background information on the shared heritage of Russia and Ukraine and the gradual emergence of their distinct national identities. It explores the broader Russian objective of erasing Ukrainian cultural identity and the destruction of cultural assets as a weapon of irregular warfare. T Read More
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oa The Changes in the Kurdish Language Among the Kurds of Syria as a Factor for Preserving Identity Before and After Displacement to Türkiye
More LessThis research paper attempts to address, in general, an issue that is under-studied: the change in the concept of identity among the Syrian Kurdish diaspora in Türkiye. It explores the sources of change and stability in the concept of identity acquired by birth from several angles: education from the axes of language, the legal reality, and the outlook for the future. The paper attempts to obtain explanations related to the options o Read More
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- Silent Narratives, Denied Identity and Emotions
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oa Initial Failures and Symbolic Successes: Transitional Justice for Homosexual Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Post-War Era
More LessThis paper addresses the successes and failures of transitional justice measures for homosexual victims of Nazi persecution in Germany. It will examine transitional justice for these victims within the framework of Ruti G. Teitel’s transitional justice genealogy, particularly the idea of the evolution of transitional justice into a steady- state. Transitional justice is examined from two perspectives: narrow and broad. The narro Read More
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oa Insisting on Uniqueness: Shame and Guilt in German Memory Culture and the Denial of Palestinian Perspectives
More LessBy Lara FrickeThis paper examines the affects of shame and guilt that underpin the German Holocaust memory culture, exemplified by the uniqueness thesis, and how this contributes to the denial of Palestinian perspectives in German society. It will approach this topic through the case study of the ‘Mbembe Affair’ in 2020. Achille Mbembe’s decolonial work challenged the core dogmas of German memory culture by suggesting conn Read More
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oa Diasporic Heritage as Resistance: The Palestinian Experience
More LessThe Palestinian diaspora has been marked by displacement, dispossession, and political violence since the creation of the Israeli state in 1948 on the occupied Palestinian lands. Despite these challenges, Palestinians have maintained a strong connection to their heritage and culture in and out of the Palestinian lands, using their diasporic identity as a form of resistance against occupation and colonialism. This paper investigates Read More
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oa “We Cannot Forget It, It is Our Land”: Nostalgic Attachment of the Sahrawis to Their Homeland, an Equally Real and Imaginary Territory
More LessThe hope to return to their homeland is a constant and collective belief among the Sahrawi since they fled the Western Sahara almost fifty years ago. Traditionally nomadic, they lived alongside Spaniards for almost a century until early 1976, when Spain abandoned the territory and divided it between Morocco and Mauritania. Most of the population fled into the desert in which they suffered bombardment, hunger and disease. Read More
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- The Materiality and Musealisation of Diasporic Heritage
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oa Nostalgia and Food as Memory and Translation Object in Fadia Faqir, Leila Aboulela and Layla AlAmmar
More LessMigrants’ geographic and temporal movements and border-crossings often involve the creative use of nostalgic attachments, embodied memories and everyday material objects as means of continuity and translation between past and present, the old home and the new home. This paper examines the transnational construction and negotiation of diasporic subjectivity from the perspective of nostalgic embodied memory a Read More
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oa In and Out of Place: Resistance in the Musealisation of Palestinian Exile
More LessAt the end of a long alley within the overcrowded Shatila refugee camp for Palestinians in Beirut stands The Museum of Memories. A small museum space which houses objects that Shatila residents brought with them from Palestine in the aftermath of al-Nakba. This museum is no nostalgic archive of Palestine – it is an important space of resistance. This paper makes use of Edward Said’s (2000) conceptualisation of exile as Read More
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oa Objects with an Imagined Home: Yugoslavia’s Heritage as a Diasporic Object
More LessHow do we approach an object that lost its country of origin, its context and source community? The violent dissolution of Yugoslavia left little room for the people of the newly formed states to share their living experience, therefore making it impossible to share the interpretation of the history and heritage remaining as the relic of the former state. During the past three decades the heritage field of the respected region operat Read More
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