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

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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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and acronyms Introduction 1 The production and use of neocolonialist sites of memory Part I Colonial spaces in postcolonial metropoles 2 Old colonial sites and new uses in contemporary Paris 3 The Axum Obelisk: Shifting concepts of colonialism and empire in Fascist and 21st-century Rome 4 Postcolonial Berlin: Reckoning with traces of German colonialism Part II Between postcolonial metropoles and postcolonies 5 Erasing the Ketchaoua Mosque: Catholicism, assimilation, and civic identity in France and Algeria 6 All empire is a stage: Italian colonial exhibitions in continuum 7 The legacy of colonial architecture in South Korea: The Government-General Building of Chosǒn revisited Part III Inherited colonial-era spaces in contemporary postcolonies 8 Spatial governmentality and everyday hospital life in colonial and postcolonial DR Congo 9 Colonial mimicry and nationalist memory in the postcolonial prisons of India Part IV Globalization and heritage in contemporary postcolonies 10 Heritage, tourism, and the challenges of postcolonial globalization at Tunis’ Bardo Museum 11 The riad’s resurgence: Questioning the historical legacy and neocolonial currency of the Moroccan courtyard house 12 Cultivating (post)colonialism: Architecture, landscape, and the politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Epilogue 13 Working through the neocolonialist habit Index