Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138368385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 274 str.

Daniel E. Coslett

Opis

Neocolonialism and Built Heritage addresses the sustained presence and influence of historic built environments and processes inherited from colonialism within the contemporary lives of cities in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Production and Use of Neocolonialist Sites of Memory Daniel E. Coslett  PART I: Colonial Spaces in Postcolonial Metropoles  2. Old Colonial Sites and New Uses in Contemporary Paris Robert Aldrich  3. The Axum Obelisk: Shifting Concepts of Colonialism and Empire in Fascist and 21st-Century Rome Flavia Marcello and Aidan Carter  4. Postcolonial Berlin: Reckoning with Traces of German Colonialism Valentina Rozas-Krause  PART II: Between Postcolonial Metropoles and Postcolonies  5. Erasing the Ketchaoua Mosque: Catholicism, Assimilation, and Civic Identity in France and Algeria Ralph Ghoche  6. All Empire is a Stage: Italian Colonial Exhibitions in Continuum Stephanie Malia Hom  7. The Legacy of Colonial Architecture in South Korea: The Government-General Building of Chosŏn Revisited Suzie Kim  PART III: Inherited Colonial-era Spaces in Contemporary Postcolonies  8. Spatial Governmentality and Everyday Hospital Life in Colonial and Postcolonial DR Congo Simon De Nys-Ketels, Johan Lagae, Kristien Geenen, Luce Beeckmans, and Trésor Lumfuankenda Bungiena  9. Colonial Mimicry and Nationalist Memory in the Postcolonial Prisons of India Mira Rai Waits  PART IV: Globalization and Heritage in Contemporary Postcolonies  10. Heritage, Tourism, and the Challenges of Postcolonial Globalization at Tunis’ Bardo Museum Daniel E. Coslett  11. The Riad’s Resurgence: Questioning the Historical Legacy and Neocolonial Currency of the Moroccan Courtyard House Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi  12. Cultivating (Post)colonialism: Architecture, Landscape, and the Politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Justin Kollar  EPILOGUE  13. Working Through the Neocolonialist Habit Vikramāditya Prakāsh  Index

O autorze

Daniel E. Coslett earned a Ph.D. in the history and theory of built environments from the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments, as well as an M.A. in the subject from Cornell University. His research addresses colonial and postcolonial North Africa, focusing on intersections of architectural design, urban planning, archaeology, and historic preservation, as well as heritage management and tourism development. At Western Washington University and the University of Washington he teaches subjects including historic preservation, architectural analysis, as well as modern and colonial architectural history. He is also an assistant editor at the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.