Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft: Issue Writing Against Essentialization

In recent years, certain cultural forms of expression as well as certain practices, artefacts or phenomena have been problematized and scandalized as cultural appropriation. This contribution argues that the accusation of cultural appropriation is based on essentializing and therefore problematic concepts of culture. Claiming a phenomenon or a thing to have been subjected to cultural appropriation assumes that such elements belong

Keywords
cultural appropriation, cultural property, authorization, slogan-concept