Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography (ICMA Books | Viewpoints) 1st Edition

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography (ICMA Books | Viewpoints) 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780271095264,0271095261

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0271095261
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0271095264
• Author:Benjamin Anderson,Mirela Ivanova 

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion.

In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial practice in the present. The book concludes with a bibliography that serves as a foundation for a coherent and systematic critical historiography. Bringing together insights from scholars working in different disciplines, regions, and institutions, Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? urges practitioners to reckon with the discipline’s colonialist, imperialist, and white supremacist history.

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