The French city of Nantes has been heralded for both its creative and complex engagements with the dark heritage of its history as France's main slave port. In this article we examine the ways in which the colonial heritage has been dealt with in Nantes, arguing that we find here various processes and initiatives which can be understood as expressing or combining what we suggest are four main modes of colonial heritage practice: Repression, Removal, Reframing and Re-emergence. We discuss how the city authorities and local organizations with a focus on colonial heritage have ended the silent repression of the city's slave trading heritage, and to some extent entirely reframed the city as a center of avant-garde art and culture, e.g., through the 2012 construction of Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery. Finally, we critically analyze the domesticating effect of this reframing as well as practices of removal which, by contrast, have been used to reintroduce decolonial antagonism and oppositional struggle into the public space in Nantes. Finally we investigate whether street performances of Royal de Luxe might hold what we term potential for re-emergence; a heritage practice entailing both a reemergent aesthetics able to engage the audience at a bodily and affective level, a re-emergent history able to both articulate the past and energize contemporary struggles, and the re-emergence of a broader field of voices and subjects.

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重新出现的有效基础设施？探索南特遗产实践的模式。

法国城市南特因其作为法国主要奴隶港口的历史黑暗遗产的创造性和复杂性而备受赞誉。在本文中，我们研究了南特处理殖民遗产的方式，认为我们在这里发现了各种过程和举措，可以理解为表达或结合了我们建议的四种主要殖民遗产实践模式：镇压、移除、重构和重新出现。我们讨论了以殖民遗产为重点的城市当局和地方组织如何结束对城市奴隶贸易遗产的无声镇压，并在某种程度上将城市完全重新定位为前卫艺术和文化的中心，例如，通过2012年废除奴隶制纪念碑的建设。最后，我们批判性地分析了这种重构的驯化效果以及移除的做法，相比之下，这些做法已被用来将非殖民对抗和对立斗争重新引入南特的公共空间。最后，我们调查 Royal de Luxe 的街头表演是否具有我们所说的重新出现的潜力；一种遗产实践需要一种能够在身体和情感层面吸引观众的重新出现的美学，能够表达过去并激发当代斗争的重新出现的历史，以及更广泛的声音和主题领域的重新出现。最后，我们调查 Royal de Luxe 的街头表演是否具有我们所说的重新出现的潜力；一种遗产实践需要一种能够在身体和情感层面吸引观众的重新出现的美学，能够表达过去并激发当代斗争的重新出现的历史，以及更广泛的声音和主题领域的重新出现。最后，我们调查 Royal de Luxe 的街头表演是否具有我们所说的重新出现的潜力；一种遗产实践需要一种能够在身体和情感层面吸引观众的重新出现的美学，能够表达过去并激发当代斗争的重新出现的历史，以及更广泛的声音和主题领域的重新出现。