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Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders
Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case studies from North America, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the book analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments clash in planning and experiencing urban spaces. Going beyond the claim that such situations exist in many parts of the world because communities construct their 'past memories' within their current daily life and future aspirations, the book explores how the very acts of planning and urban design are rooted in the existing structures of hegemonic power. With contributors from the fields of architecture, geography, planning, anthropology and sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, the book provides a rich, interdisciplinary view into the conflicts over memory and belonging which are spatially expressed and mediated through the official planning apparatus.
Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics
How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social, cultural, and political thought today? This book brings together a range of intellectuals from the social sciences and humanities to speak to theoretical debates around the questions of suffering in art and suffering and art.
A Companion to Modern African Art
Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art
Colonial Legacies
In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video art, these artists rework existent images and redress archival absences, making visible people and events occluded from dominant narratives. Their artworks are shown to offer a re-reading of the colonial and immediate post-independence past, blurring the lines of historical and speculative knowledge, documentary and fiction. Nugent demonstrates how their practices create a new type of visual record for the future, one that attests to the ramifications of colonialism across time.
Snake Dance
In this unique journey across continents and centuries, award-winning author Patrick Marnham explores the ruthless dictators, dangerous minds and prehistoric precedents behind the development of nuclear power. The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in the age of mass destruction. Yet it was also the climax of a story that extends beyond Japan and Washington: the culmination of decades of scientific achievement and centuries of colonial exploitation. "Snake Dance" is the account of a journey that turned into a quest to discover how humanit...
L’esclavage en Haïti. Entrecroisement des mémoires et enjeux de la patrimonialisation
Les mémoires de l’esclavage sont présentes et continuellement réactualisées en Haïti. Elles sont caractérisées par l’invisibilité des lieux qui les supportent, l’invisibilité de la résistance culturelle et l’invisibilité des conséquences sociales de l’esclavage (la pauvreté, les inégalités). Leur patrimonialisation dépasse le cadre normatif de mise en valeur dans les musées, de création de parcs et de construction de mémorial. Elle dépend des expériences historiques, sociales et culturelles qui sont transmises. Cet ouvrage met à nu la distorsion entre la mémoire élaborée sur le plan étatique et le travail de mémoire non élaboré réalisé par la population. Après plus de deux siècles d’indépendance d’Haïti, il convient de chercher à comprendre ce qui a marqué, ce qui a été transmis, conservé, rejeté, refoulé, ce qui est mobilisable et mobilisé, dans quelles circonstances et avec quels objectifs. Aujourd’hui, où se situent le souvenir de la souffrance de l’esclavage et l’orgueil d’en avoir triomphé?
