Architectural relics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and Japanese colonialism actively exploited and experienced neocolonialist sites of memory 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 volumes 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.
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 Chosn 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 Riads 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 Vikramditya Praksh Index
Daniel E. Coslett earned a Ph.D. in the history and theory of built environments from the University of Washingtons 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.
