Duality of Decolonizing: Artists’ Memory Activism in Warsaw

Bukowiecki, Łukasz; Wawrzyniak, Joanna; Wróblewska, Magdalena

doi:10.1080/2159032x.2021.1898076

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“…Such artists create projects that reject settler colonial logics by recuperating Black, Latinx, and Indigenous art that reinscribe places with life and livingness. Decolonial aesthetics and related practices of “disruptive aesthetics” (Markussen, 2012, 2013), “fugitive aesthetics” (Martineau & Ritskes, 2014), “creative activism” (Youkhana, 2014), “socially engaged art” (Olsen, 2019), “subversive art” (Kastner, 2011), and “community based art” (Sharp et al., 2005) highlight the role of scholars, writers, poets, and artists in seeking new ways of telling and visualizing stories to the world that can contribute to a decolonial future through spatio‐aesthetic interventions (Bukowiedcki et al., 2020; Tlostonova, 2015, 2019). The generative role of decolonial aesthetics and art disavows repeated violence of settler colonialism while moving closer to tangible practices of decolonization.…”

Section: Conclusion—decolonial Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Settler aesthetics—Theorizing and contesting settler colonialism through art practice

Malot

2024

Geography Compass

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The growing scholarship on settler colonialism largely understudies aesthetics. Settler colonial logics work not only through the elimination, dispossession, and criminalization of Indigenous populations but also through the erasure of Indigenous narratives and aesthetics. Aesthetics communicate a particular system of knowledge and power that can either refute or perpetuate settler colonial projects. I use the term “settler aesthetics” to foreground an understanding of aesthetics as dynamic socio‐spatial practices through which state and non‐state actors assert power, construct particular visions of a city, and shape conditions of belonging. Settler aesthetics demonstrate how the logic of elimination and the work of settler memory reproduces and is reproduced through various visual modalities. I argue that as geographers, we must examine both contemporary settler colonial projects that continue codifying cities as purely settler spaces without Indigenous presence and resistance, and spaces that insist on Black, Latinx, and Indigenous presence and livingness. This paper therefore explores how scholarship on decolonizing and anti‐colonial art practice and theory can inform emerging scholarship on settler colonial urbanism that centers perspectives and practices of Black and Indigenous presence and resistance.

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Section: Conclusion—decolonial Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Settler aesthetics—Theorizing and contesting settler colonialism through art practice

Malot

2024

Geography Compass

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“…The term memory activism has been conceptually stretched to encompass a wide range of actors and instances of contention, from administrators and government officials, to historians, artists, and a variety of social movements (Dybris McQuaid and Gensburger, 2019; Hajek, 2013; Harris, 2006; Pettai, 2020; Rigney, 2018; Bukowiecki et al 2020; Whitlinger, 2019; Zamponi, 2018). A clear definition is therefore essential.…”

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Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists

Gutman

Wüstenberg

2021

Memory Studies

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Memory activists have recently received more scholarly and public attention, but the concept lacks conceptual clarity. In this article, we articulate an analytical framework for studying memory activists, proposing a relatively narrow definition: “Memory activists” strategically commemorate the past to challenge (or protect) dominant views on the past and the institutions that represent them. Their goal is mnemonic change or to resist change. We locate scholarship on memory activists at the intersection of memory studies and social movement studies. We introduce a typology for comparative analysis of memory activism according to activist roles, temporality, and modes of interaction with other actors in memory politics, and illustrate this with a diverse set of empirical examples. We contend that the analytical utility of the concept of the “memory activist” is premised on its value-neutrality, and in particular, its application to both pro and anti-democratic cases of activism.

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“…Memory activism is a vital arising idea; it is presently applied to activist gatherings that tackle the history to make right and supporting cases about the requirement for a social change. It offers verifiable equity, common freedoms, compromise, and peace building (Bukowiecki et al, 2020;Kølvraa & Knudsen, 2020).…”

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Measuring Place Attachment, Identity, and Memory in Urban Spaces: Case of the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan

Zahid

Mısırlısoy

2021

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism

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Public spaces are essential for any city as they define place character; they are the meeting point for social and cultural actions. Place attachment is moulded by the tie between individuals and places. The research examines the historic streets, which are remainders of their period when the pedestrian flow was predominant and had exceptional qualities that supported social action. The changed settings nowadays might have changed people’s views and the investigation was made to question and check individual’s common memory and their sensitive ties to the historic streets. The four streets from the Walled City of Lahore were selected upon their significance of history and usage. The questionnaires were prepared and the fieldwork analysis was conducted face to face and selected streets were investigated in the terms of, place attachment, identity, and memory. The outcome proved that there is a promising feeling of attachment towards the selected streets and lacking qualities of a street can be improved if look closely at the worthy streets. The study addressed an important issue of marginalization and the results from the Shah-Almi street shows that their act will create the walled city streets to lose their identity as it is formed by its users.

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Duality of Decolonizing: Artists’ Memory Activism in Warsaw

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Settler aesthetics—Theorizing and contesting settler colonialism through art practice

Settler aesthetics—Theorizing and contesting settler colonialism through art practice

Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists

Measuring Place Attachment, Identity, and Memory in Urban Spaces: Case of the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan

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