Les reliques royales, regalia des rois sakalava de l’Ouest malgache, au cœur des guerres coloniales (1880-1914)

Ballarin, Marie-Pierre

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“…But this misstep was interpreted as an attempted kidnapping and invoked the rage of royal Sakalava dignitaries (the true authorities of Soazara), costing Ralaimongo dearly in terms of regional support (Ballarin 2000: 288–98; Feeley-Harnik 1984: 15; Randrianja 2001: 300) 33 . In Mahajanga, Ralaimongo's outreach efforts were met with disdain by Sakalava dignitaries who regarded him as an outsider and rejected his ‘foolish’ anti-French campaign (Ballarin 2000: 291; Randrianja 2001: 301) 34 . Ralaimongo's story resonates with the contingent ways in which anti-colonial movements unfolded elsewhere (Cooper 2014).…”

Section: Detritus and Deletions: Imaginings Of Post-independence Mahamentioning

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Neglect as effacement: the multiple lives of the Jardin Ralaimongo, Mahajanga, Madagascar

Rijke-Epstein¹

2018

Africa

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By considering the lifespan of a garden, this article investigates the myriad spatial practices of forgetting and remembering the colonial and postcolonial pasts that people apply to their urban surroundings in Mahajanga, Madagascar. In the heart of an ancient residential and commercial neighbourhood in this multi-ethnic Indian Ocean port city sits the Jardin Ralaimongo. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, I explore the trajectory of the garden to elucidate the ways in which different socio-political groups have drawn on this site to negotiate differences, frame collective memories, and stake their claims to the urban landscape. I show how, as city inhabitants have reworked the spaces of the garden, so too has the park itself – its layout, material artefacts and location within the city – constrained the possibilities of what can be remembered and silenced, and who can be bound to one another, in contemporary times. Over its hundred-year history, this site has been founded, forgotten and reincarnated as a memorial to a succession of revered leaders, thus serving as a kind of spatial register of the historical socio-political changes that have given rise to the city. This article suggests that the deterioration of colonial-era architectural forms through long-standing neglect and abandonment may be understood as an active spatial practice of effacing some dimensions of the past, while the subsequent recuperation of deserted public spaces by certain groups is an effort to position themselves as legitimate residents and express their attachment to the city.

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Section: Detritus and Deletions: Imaginings Of Post-independence Mahamentioning

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Neglect as effacement: the multiple lives of the Jardin Ralaimongo, Mahajanga, Madagascar

Rijke-Epstein¹

2018

Africa

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“…This desire is expressed in a multitude of practices concerning the building and renewal of tombs and the care of corpses, including, in some regions, festive practices of reburial or rewrapping of corpses, and in others of maintaining relics from important ancestors (see e.g. Bloch 1971;Feeley-Harnik 1991;Middleton 1999;Ballarin 2000;Baré 1980;Lambek 2002). The tomb is the portal to the hereafter, the world of the ancestors, serving as the passage through which the deceased undergo 'ancestralization'.…”

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Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar

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Lambek³

2013

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Les reliques royales, regalia des rois sakalava de l’Ouest malgache, au cœur des guerres coloniales (1880-1914)

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Neglect as effacement: the multiple lives of the Jardin Ralaimongo, Mahajanga, Madagascar

Neglect as effacement: the multiple lives of the Jardin Ralaimongo, Mahajanga, Madagascar

Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar

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