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Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories - Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories - Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various
ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of
colonialism, nationalism and modernity. Some have argued that newly
decolonized nations sought to represent their modernity through the
spaces and symbols of their new national capitals, while other
scholars have stressed that while the forms and processes of
architectural modernization have no doubt served as aids to various
nation-building projects, it is the specific role of individual
agents (such as planners, architects, an emerging twentieth-century
bourgeois citizen, or colonial administrators) in this national
project that needs attention. However, many such explorations of
this subject have so far taken the form of monographs that
concentrate on one city, thereby limiting the scope required to
address the broader questions at hand. By juxtaposing case studies
from various colonial and postcolonial settings from around the
world, this edited volume provides a comprehensive and diachronic
investigation of the ways in which architecture and urban space
mediate the intersections of colonialism, nationalism, and
modernity. Examining such spaces as archaeological sites,
memorials, new buildings, or historic urban fabric, the book
questions certain established dichotomies such as that of the
imperial center and the colonized periphery; the colonial past and
the postcolonial present; or the isolation of the national or local
from the global. Besides offering unique historical perspectives on
colonialism, nationalism and modernity, each case-study also
reassesses theories regarding memory and monumentalization; the
appropriation and deployment of tradition in the service of
nationalism; and the institutions of modernity. A common thread
throughout the essays in this volume is a focus on new loci of
power that emerge either in collision with colonial power
structures, or in collaboration with or those that emerge in the
wake of decolonization. While the authors recognize the presence of
a larger structure of colonial hegemony, they also investigate
those centers of power that emerge in the interstices of crevices
of colonial power. Interdisciplinary and theoretically innovative,
this book offers a global perspective on colonial and national
landscapes, rewrites the master creator narrative, examines
national landscapes as sites of contestation and views the
globalization of processes such as archaeology beyond the
boundaries of the national.
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