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Rethinking global modernism : architectural historiography and the postcolonial
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ISBN: 9780367636708 9780367636715 9781003120209 Year: 2022 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,

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"This anthology collects recent scholarship on modernism which outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture, that is informed by postcolonial theory and its contemporary derivatives such as posthumanism. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize that canon using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks it asks, what might a genuinely 'global' history of architectural modernism begin to look like? The chapters explore the weaknesses of normative interpretations of modernism and proposes alternatives to them. It offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern, and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are covered. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference for a new understanding of this crucial topic"--


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Neocolonialism and built heritage : echoes of empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe
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ISBN: 9781138368378 9781138368385 1138368377 1138368385 9780429429286 0429429282 9780429769528 0429769520 9780429769511 0429769512 9780429769504 0429769504 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonialism remain embedded within the urban fabric of many European capitals. 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. Novel in their focused consideration of ways in which these built environments reinforce neocolonialist connections among former colonies and colonizers, states and international organizations, the volume's case studies engage highly relevant issues such as historic preservation, heritage management, tourism, toponymy, and cultural imperialism. Interrogating the life of the past in the present, authors thus challenge readers to consider the roles played by a diversity of historic built environments in the ongoing asymmetrical balance of power and unequal distribution capital around the globe. They present buildings' maintenance, management, reuse, and (re)interpretation, and in so doing they raise important questions, the ramifications of which transcend the specifics of the individual sites and architectural histories they present.

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