Remembrance, Commemorations and Apologies

The Dutch Context and Implications for Other European Nations

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.05.0003

Palavras-chave:

escravatura no Atlântico, comércio transatlântico holandês, Europa negra, comemorações

Resumo

Visto pela lente da história pública como um canal entre a academia (que inclui investigação, conhecimento e ensino superior) e a sociedade em geral (que engloba os meios de comunicação social, as instituições educativas, os museus e o discurso político), o estudo do envolvimento dos Países Baixos no sistema Atlântico de escravatura surge como um terreno profundamente controverso. No cerne desta afirmação está a dura realidade de que, apesar do seu papel fulcral no tecido histórico do Estado e da identidade holandeses, a escravatura foi, durante muito tempo, relegada para a periferia da investigação académica e das narrativas históricas públicas. Basta analisar um ponto focal crítico: a natureza e a disseminação do conhecimento no meio académico, e a sua subsequente transmissão à esfera pública. Apesar da marginalização persistente, a crescente pressão pública exercida nos últimos tempos por vários segmentos da sociedade holandesa levou a uma reavaliação e a uma revisitação da escravatura e das suas persistentes repercussões. Embora estes desenvolvimentos sejam, de facto, neerlandeses, a sua ressonância estende-se para além das fronteiras nacionais, repercutindo-se em interlocutores de toda a Europa, pois a escravatura transcendeu os limites dos Países Baixos, constituindo um dilema europeu mais vasto. Assim, neste artigo falarei, como já referido, das implicações  do tráfico transatlântico neerlandês, caracterizado pela colonização, escravização e exploração económica sistémicas, em que várias potências europeias disputavam o domínio.

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Biografia Autor

Kwame Nimako, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Países Baixos

Kwame Nimako (MA, Sociology; PhD Economics, University of Amsterdam) is the founder and director of the Summer School on Black Europe (BESS) based in Amsterdam since 2007. He taught International Relations in the Department of Political Sciences at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (1991-2013).  He held visiting professor positions in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (Spring 2018 and 2012-2015) and at the University of Suriname (2011). He was also a fellow in the Faculty of Economics at the Tinbergen Institute (1989-1991), and he taught Race and Ethnic Relations in the Department of Education (1986- 1991).  He has also given lectures at universities, conferences and organizations in the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, South Africa and Sweden.

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2024-06-28

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Nimako, Kwame. 2024. «Remembrance, Commemorations and Apologies: The Dutch Context and Implications for Other European Nations». Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies | Revista De Estudos Comparatistas, n. 5 (Junho). Lisboa, Portugal:30–44. https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.05.0003.

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