Part 1: For people who may not know the story, can you walk us through the history of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (the shipwreck, the treasure recovery, and the museum exhibitions) and explain the central question of your article?
Part 2: One of the most striking parts of the article is your focus on what the exhibitions leave out. What might a more critically engaged or decolonial version of the exhibition have looked like?
Part 3: Why do you think shipwrecks and treasure stories still have such a strong hold on the public imagination?
Yves Winter is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University where he teaches history of political thought and contemporary social and political theory. His research spans critical theory, theories of violence, and international political theory. He is the author of Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence (2018), which received the 2019 First Book Award from the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association as well as the 2020 C. B. Macpherson Prize of the Canadian Political Science Association. He has also published widely on violence, sovereignty, and political order. He is currently completing a book on the social and political imaginary and developing a research project on the afterlives of colonialism.
