Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive, Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies, Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies

Author

Hilden, Irene

Year

2022

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-46270-340-7

Link

Last Update

10-Jan-2026

Keywords

Political Science ; Anthropology ; Museum Studies

Description

German Colonialism. Fragments Past and Present—this was the title of a temporary special exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, which opened in October 2016.¹ At the time, an exhibition dedicated to Germany’s colonial past and its legacies was a project long overdue at a major German institution. At the same time, it was a project destined to disappoint the high expectations of many postcolonial scholars and activists who had been dealing with colonial pasts and presents for years and decades. In spite of all criticism—sometimes more, sometimes less justified—, the exhibition and the negotiations surrounding...