Towards a Spatial Practice of the Postcolonial City

Beswick, Katie; Parmar, Maya; Sil, Esha

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2014.998262

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“…Within the unique conditions of contestation and conflict that post-colonialist spaces characterise, wherein meaning and identity interact and cross over each other, the corporeal experience is also a polyrhythmic one [50]. Donnelly asserts the entrenchment of bounded domination within the polyrhythms of the postcolonial and identifies cultural museums as sites where this relationship is purported to be managed but is also made visible [51]. "Heterogenous sites of spatial production" capture the instances where multiple modes of cultural production inhabit the same site, as is often the case in postcolonial contexts [51] (p. 800), suggesting, perhaps, it is not the prescription of/for place that matters but the facilitation of its capacity to be lived and experienced through bodily emplacement.…”

Section: Flows and Polyrhythmicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brown [64] does not consider it "surprising that urban Māori looked once again to the whare whakairo (carved meeting house) as an architecture that could represent unity, self-determination and cultural identity" (p. 114). Although it was never lost, it could be argued that extreme marginalisation ignited a principal function in thirdspaces to the sovereign claims of Aotearoa's Indigenous people [51]. To this point, Brown [64] asserts that the wharenui (meeting house) has been "re-contextualised for the contemporary period to meet the aspirations of communities and institutions as well as to confront the challenges of social inequity and physical displacement" precisely due to its "accommodation and embodiment of cultural practices" (p. 115).…”

Section: Indigenous Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sense of Place and Belonging in Developing Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Environments: A Review

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The connection the Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa-New Zealand, have to the land is threatened by the effects of colonisation, urbanisation and other factors. In particular, many Māori suffer significant health and wellbeing inequalities compared to the non-Māori population. In an effort to reduce such inequalities, there is a growing consciousness of the need to better understand the cultural and place-specific determinants that affect the health and wellbeing of population groups in different environments. This article explores how environmental and cultural connections to land enable the development of place-specific and culturally-driven principles that promote the health and wellbeing of Māori populations. It argues that concepts of place, belonging, landscape and wellbeing play an important role in linking environment and culture as well as in contributing to creating therapeutic spatial environments that promote both human health and ecosystems. A set of principles is developed that allows for the landscape design of such therapeutic environments while accommodating the socio-cultural and environmental values that promote health and wellbeing of both Māori and non-Māori people.

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Sense of Place and Belonging in Developing Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Environments: A Review

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“…Scholarships of McClintok (2018), Colombijn and Barwegen (2009), and Njoh (2008) investigate the colonial roots of the racialization of space based on social segregation concept. Other scholars, such as Aschroft (2017) and Beswick, et al (2015), are more prefer to highlight the notion of the post-colonial city for exploring the extension colonialism in modern life.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Spatial Political-Economic Review on Urban Growth in Java under Economic Liberalization of Dutch Colonialism During the 19th Century

Setiadi

Yunus²,

Purwanto³

2022

IJG

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This study understands the rise and fall of cities as a result of colonial worldview and practices. Based on spatial political-economic thinking, this study examines the spatial implications of Dutch colonialism on urban growth in Java during the 19th century. The practice of colonialism at that time took place in a relatively stable regional situation. The analysis of textual data from various literature indicates that the economic liberalization of Dutch colonialism in that time was a continuation of the VOC’s mercantilism but with a stronger intention to control the factors of production. Territorial expansion to fertile areas indeed encouraged the emergence of medium-sized cities in the inland, but on the other hand, degenerated several older cities on the coast. Spatially, the ambitions and practices of colonialism had a limited implication on urban growth. The combination of territorial and capital logic triggered political liquidation which was reflected in the spatial pattern of urban growth. The identity and symbol of colonial power were attached as new elements to the cities. This process revealed a locational decision to channel economic benefits to strategic places for sustaining domination of power for the long-term.

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“…More than any cultural expression (with the exception of cinema), literature is unrivalled in rendering the city as a heterotopic space with multiple viewpoints (Beswick et al, 2015: 792). In that spirit, this article seeks to understand Chennai through narratives, which we believe is a productive way of imagining and experiencing its multivocality and open-endedness.…”

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Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of belonging in a postcolonial city

Rajamony

Tripathy

2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Fictional narratives on Chennai, after its official conversion from Madras in 1996, offer an intriguing register for exploring ways of belonging. Using a postcolonial framework, the paper closely scrutinizes T. S. Tirumurti’s Clive Avenue and Chennaivaasi (and some other authors invested in Chennai’s contemporary culture) and subjects them to critique as sites of meaning making. An effort is made to explore how these narratives respond to the new reality of Chennai, to what extent they see the city producing a standardized experience, and how the fictional characters corroborate or contest institutional change. In the process, the texts are brought to converse with the postcolonial desire for cultural autonomy, its mediation by a nativist agenda, as well as the ambivalence and contradictions inherent in such a desire. The texts betray the inadequacies of the new name as a stable container of cultural meanings and propose an idea of the city that is internally incoherent and multi-experiential.

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Towards a Spatial Practice of the Postcolonial City

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Sense of Place and Belonging in Developing Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Environments: A Review

Sense of Place and Belonging in Developing Culturally Appropriate Therapeutic Environments: A Review

A Spatial Political-Economic Review on Urban Growth in Java under Economic Liberalization of Dutch Colonialism During the 19th Century

Between Madras and Chennai: Narratives of belonging in a postcolonial city

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