Placing In-between: Thinking through Architecture in the Construction of Colonial-Modern Identities

Scriver, Peter

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“…Of equal symbolic power are the urban landscapes as 'heuristic framework[s] for thinking' studied by Peter Scriver (2006), p. 207) in his exploration of colonialmodern architecture in India, also through the lens of literature. By means of three novels published over time he analyses 'the architectural legacies of the colonial expansion of Europe into the geographical and cultural spaces of the non-West over the past five centuries' (p. 209).…”

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Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

Rembold¹,

Carrier²

2011

National Identities

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This article enquires how notions of national identities are still topical in recent scholarship at a time when processes of globalisation appear to be undermining the nation-state and its territorial power. The so-called spatial turn within the social sciences and humanities has exposed transnational, postcolonial and global aspects of identity constructions beyond the narrow borders of the nation and all things national. Stimulating historical and geographical research into nations and identities, this journal is informed by the same epistemology, tentatively located in postmodern thinking. Despite the prophecies of doom of postmodern enthusiasts, this study testifies to the continued relevance of borders and national attachments, albeit in terms of self-reflexivity.

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Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

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2011

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“…For example, although there are clear parallels, the literature on post-socialist urbanism draws surprisingly few connections with the considerable research on post-colonial urbanism. This research explores how the negotiation of cultural boundaries and socio-economic inequalities arising during and after colonial encounters impact practices of architecture, urban planning, and identity (Njoh 2009;Scriver 2006;Stenning and Horschelmann 2008). Similar to Western overseas colonialism, the expansion of Russian/Soviet hegemony across much of Eurasia relied on varying degrees of coercion, co-optation, and collaboration.…”

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From socialist to post-socialist cities: Narrating the nation through urban space

Diener¹,

Hagen

2013

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The development of post-socialist cities has emerged as a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences. Originally constructed under the dictates of central planners and designed to serve the demands of command economies, post-socialist urban centers currently develop at the nexus of varied and often competing economic, cultural, and political forces. Among these, nationalist aspirations, previously simmering beneath the official rhetoric of communist fraternity and veneer of architectural conformity, have emerged as dominant factors shaping the urban landscape. This article examines patterns, processes, and practices concerning the cultural politics of architecture, urban planning, and identity in the post-socialist city. In addition to assessing the main contours of this burgeoning field of research, this article highlights how this special issue of Nationalities Papers contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary cultural and political change in post-socialist urban settings.

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“…This research has laid bare the ideological imperatives that animate campaigns to (re-)order urban space, especially spaces imbued with particular historical, political, or socio-cultural significance. Simply put, urban landscapes and spaces constitute malleable resources deployed by groups as they continually compete to shape cultural political economy and socio-political relations (Hagen 2010;Jacobs and Merriman 2011;Ribera-Fumaz 2009;Scriver 2006). This is particularly so for capital cites, which according to Denis Cosgrove, "are designed landscapes whose patterns of roads and open spaces, buildings and monuments invariably inscribe foundation myths, public memory, constitutional structures and heroic individuals into an iconography of nationhood" (2002,264).…”

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City of felt and concrete: Negotiating cultural hybridity in Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar

Diener

Hagen

2013

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Capital cities play an integral role in the construction of national identity. This is particularly true when the capital is the country's only major urban center. Over the course of its history, Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar has been periodically reshaped to reflect competing trajectories of national culture. This article examines the evolving symbolism of architecture, urban design, and public space in Ulaanbaatar as a means of exploring Mongolia's complex negotiation between its traditional culture (mobile pastoralism and Shamanism/Buddhism), its socialist legacy, and globalization. Amidst the rampant social change of the last two decades, rather ambiguous national narratives have emerged in Mongolia. Like the capital's cityscape, these narratives reflect aspects of both recent and distant pasts, as well as contemporary economic, political, and social realities. This article reveals how increasingly palpable global economic and cultural practices are fomenting material change in the current phase of Ulaanbaatar's evolution. A combination of secondary source research and observations drawn from several months of fieldwork provide the basis for a discussion of the city's role as a forum for cultural contestation and national reform.

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Placing In-between: Thinking through Architecture in the Construction of Colonial-Modern Identities

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

Space and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of globalisation

From socialist to post-socialist cities: Narrating the nation through urban space

City of felt and concrete: Negotiating cultural hybridity in Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar

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