Colonial commodity sugar: Flensburg’s global entanglements

There is an article about Flensburg's colonial entanglements on the interactive map "Decolonial [Hi]stories" in the project Decolonial Memory Culture in the City.
There is an article about Flensburg's colonial entanglements on the interactive map "Decolonial [Hi]stories" in the project Decolonial Memory Culture in the City.
In the spring semester 2025, four exciting talks will once again take place in the series “Spaces of Decolonial Education” at the Institute of Educational Sciences at Europa-Universität Flensburg.
In an article published in 2024 in the journal sub\urban (German only), Sybille Bauriedl (European University Flensburg) and Linda Pasch (University of Bonn) look at postcolonial maps. The article examines the extent to which the maps combine decolonial politics of memory with a critical reflection on map production and the power of maps.
Three talks on decolonial education will take place in the autumn/winter 2024 as part of the Flensburg Campus Talks.
The 2024 published anthology 'Denmark as a global player 17th-20th century - Colonial possessions and historical responsibility' deals with the colonial history of Denmark. In this blog post Prof. Bea Lundt introduces the anthology and presents her own contribution to the book about Fort Christansborg in Ghana.
The Flensburg Maritime Museum not only offers exhibits and background information on seafaring, the port and the German-Danish colonial history of Flensburg, but has also built up an extensive library on these subjects. Learn here more about how to use the library.
The illustration of the Flensburg shorelines shown on the homepage of the Flensburg Postcolonial Network is a collaboration between Felisha Maria Carenage and Nelo A. Schmalen. In a text we explain in particular the background to the graphic of the shorelines, which has its origins in a comparative map analysis by Nelo A. Schmalen.
In September 2023, the anthology Geographies of Coloniality - Histories of Global Inequalities was published by Sybille Bauriedl and Inken Carstensen-Egwuom, both part of the Integrative Geography department at Europa-Universität Flensburg. The anthology also includes contributions dealing with Flensburg's colonial entanglements.
The redevelopment of the area around Christiansen Park was completed in the summer of 2023. The creation of this area has direct links to Danish colonialism. This is now commemorated by a plaque in the park and a detailed text on this website.
Nelo A. Schmalen's work deals with the urban spatial changes in the Eastern Harbour and explores the extent to which this space is characterised by colonial entanglements. The maps of the harbour area created as part of the work visualize changes to the harbour edge, the terrain and the infrastructure.