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Accepted Paper:
Decolonizing Restitution: James Cook, contact zones, and a transnational Maori indigeneity
Markus Schleiter
(University of Tübingen)
The paper reflects on collaborative exhibition practices as well as present-day encounters around the wood-carved ancestor panel Hinematioro’s pou in Tübingen and Uawa, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Paper Abstract:
I will explore the polyphony of present-day decolonial discourses on James Cook in Aotearoa New Zealand which in one version sees him as the first white oppressor. Thereby, I draw on talks with Maori people and explore concepts of Maori indigeneities as transnational and cosmopolitan. In which way does Clifford’s understanding of contact zones then reflect a decolonial approach to the question of to which place objects belong? And what could the latter tell us on the question of decolonizing at large?