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.
The exhibition "Luisa Ascending" deals with the story of 14-year-old Luisa Calderón and artistically explores the question of how everyday violence in colonized areas is connected to our reality in the here and now.
Imani Tafari-Ama is a Jamaican cultural scientist who curated the exhibition 'Rum, Sweat and Tears' in Flensburg in 2017. During her curatorial residency in Flensburg, Imani Tafari-Ama conducted ethnographic fieldwork on Flensburg's colonial connections with Ghana and the Caribbean.
In this article, Inken Carstensen-Egwuom looks at the significance of monuments in urban space, including the installation "Anchoring the Void" in Flensburg and the monument "I Am Queen Mary" in Copenhagen.
The anthology Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial, edited by Marco Petersen in 2018, deals with the Danish-German colonial history in 21 contributions from different perspectives.