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After Belonging - Architecture, Nation, Difference (Hardcover)
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After Belonging - Architecture, Nation, Difference (Hardcover)
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This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship
between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective
identity. It attempts to extricate the oppressive ideology of
national identity entrenched within the very idea of architecture.
Authors investigate themes such as cosmopolitanism, diaspora,
geopolitics, globalisation, hybridity, and race. Certain chapters
expose highly regulated environments which support cultural
hegemony, such as the context of a hostel for 'coloured colonial
seamen' in London, the illusionary rhetoric of 'authenticity' used
to legitimise architectural conservation, and the role of the
mosque as mediator between a post-war, multi-racial Britain, and
ideas of nationhood. Others engage subjects at the urban scale,
including the phenomena of universities transcending their
nation-building roots to become agents of cosmopolitan urbanism,
and how the discursive context of a high-profile yet unrealised
modernist office-block in the City of London sustained a culture of
British faux-nationalism. Remaining chapters adopt a postcolonial
lens, with one examining how particular works of literary fiction
reimagine notions of 'place' within an emerging intercultural
nation, and another exploring the tense relationship between
identitarian form and affective atmospheres to suggest the
possibility of anti-essentialist experiences of architecture.
Together, these perspectives propose an alternative vision of the
City, where neither state-sponsored identity politics nor
right-wing populism determine the cultural context within which
architects design for our collective urban experience. This book
will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of
Architecture, Anthropology, History, Human Geography, Politics,
Sociology, and Urban Studies. The chapters in this book, except for
chapter 1, were first published in the journal National Identities.
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