Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1888400
D. Joffe, N. Shepherd
ABSTRACT Cape Town is home to a series of extreme disjunctive arrangements of wealth and poverty. Key to understanding the city is the deep inscription of historical injustice and its expression in contemporary forms of social injustice. In the paper that follows, we report on conversations with four indispensable commentators on the contemporary state of the city: artist Thania Petersen, architect and artist Ilze Wolff, museum practitioner Bonita Bennett, and heritage practitioner Calvyn Gilfellan. These conversations occur at a particular moment in South African life and being: in the aftermath of the Zuma presidency, in the aftermath of #RhodesMustFall, in the context of the perceived failure of the project of non-racialism, in the context of growing frustration over the intractability of historical inequality and the slow pace of change, and amid a heated national debate around the ANC government’s draft land expropriation bill. A common set of themes and preoccupations emerge: questions around race and religion; history, representation, and restitution; memory and forgetting; social justice and the abiding presence of historical injustice. Thinking inside and outside of the disciplines of art, architecture, and museum and heritage practice, these conversations present an accumulated body of wisdom and insight that might also be read as a transcript on the contemporary state of the city.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1898076
Ł. Bukowiecki, J. Wawrzyniak, M. Wróblewska
ABSTRACT This research essay contributes to the special issue “Decolonizing European Colonial Heritage in Urban Spaces” by examining memory activist art projects focused on three heritage sites in Warsaw from the perspective of the “decolonial option” as conceived by Madina Tlostanova. The essay’s theoretical framework draws from memory studies and critical heritage studies by applying the notions of memory activism, heritage repression, reframing and re-emergence, and communities of implication. The empirical cases involve The Józef Rotblat Institute for Disarmament of Culture and Abolition of War (by Krzysztof Wodiczko and Jarosław Kozakiewicz, 2016); The Próżna Project (curated by Krystyna Piotrowska, 2005–12); The Footbridge Was There (by Adam X, 2007); (…) Ellipsis (by Anna Baumgart and Agnieszka Kurant, 2009); A Footbridge of Memory (by Tomasz Lec and Krzysztof Pasternak, 2011); and photographic interventions Palace LX (by Błażej Pindor, 2014) and PKiN (by Jacek Fota, 2015). In all those critical artistic projects the essay identifies a characteristic duality: not only do they address the legacies of foreign dependencies, but in addition, and with an eye on the future, seek to destabilize nation-oriented essentialist interpretations of those dependencies. The essay claims that such a dual decolonial approach constitutes a relevant critical heuristic tool for studying other cases in which the nationalistic framing of heritage and memory is the strongest decolonial response to the fall of empires and to their aftermaths.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1888370
Christoffer Kølvraa, B. T. Knudsen
ABSTRACT The contributions presented here were written in late 2019 and finalized in the early months of 2020. What unfolded on the global stage while the special issue was making its way through the publication process – the murder of George Floyd, the rise of Black Lives Matter as a global agenda and the reenergizing of protests against both material and ideological colonial heritage – seemed at times almost about to overtake it; to render it “preemptively anachronistic” as a consequence of a radical transformation of the stakes, forms and intensities of the decolonial struggle. Ultimately, however, we think that this new context has only further validated the importance and urgency of the work undertaken here: not only is the connection between issues of contemporary racism and the colonial past which those events highlighted here explicitly conceptualized, but also the various forms and content that the decolonial struggle can be invested with are revealed and examined in both European metropoles and their global counterparts.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1915081
M. Chuva, Paulo Peixoto
ABSTRACT This paper explores the ways in which officially sanctioned colonial heritage is being moved, removed, reinvented, reinterpreted and reused by official heritage authorities, by social movements, agents and sectors of civil society, in two historically and culturally entangled cities: Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon. The cities are entangled in a process framed by their imperial – colonial relationship: because of the trafficking of enslaved Africans at their ports, for both cities being national capitals, and until the nineteenth century, the imperial nature of both cities. The inherent tensions in this process reveal the porosity of the authorized heritage discourse concerning local practices that transform meanings, and that act as openings for the reinvention of a heritage that transitions from colonial to decolonial.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1909405
Jan Ifversen, L. Pozzi
ABSTRACT This article investigates various heritage-related practices in the city of Shanghai since the end of colonialism. With the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the dominant approach was to remove the colonial heritage and replace it with a communist narrative of the people and its heroes. The introduction of market socialism in the 1990s led to a revival of the colonial heritage, but in a form that presented the city as a cosmopolitan and consumer-oriented center. The role of the colonial heritage in the dramatic change in the cityscape since the 1990s has often been viewed as nostalgic. This article analyses nostalgia as a reframing of the colonial heritage, in which it reappears as the design of communist extravagance or “conspicuous communism.” Through an analysis of the newly opened Shanghai History Museum, this article demonstrates that the global design strategy imposed on the cityscape is losing momentum and is now being challenged by a more robust narrative of a city formed more by communism than colonialism. The museum clearly reveals a tension between removing and reframing colonial heritage. Colonial heritage re-emerging in a positive way is rare, but may be found in a fascination with the darker and unruly forces of colonial Shanghai, or with objects that tend to disrupt the dominant approaches of removal and reframing.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2020.1782563
N. Silberman
Derow, Peter S. 1989. “Rome, the Fall of Macedon and the Sack of Corinth.” In The Cambridge Ancient History. 2nd ed, edited by A. E. Astin, F. W. Walbank, M. W. Frederiksen, and R. M. Ogilvie, 290–323. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Jolivet, Vincent. 2013. “A Long Twilight: ‘Romanization’ of Etruria.” In The Etruscan World, edited by J. MacIntosh Turfa, 151–179. London: Routledge. Ober, Josiah. 2015. The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Roth, Roman. 2013. “Fragmented Images: The Last Tomb Paintings of Tarquinia.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 32 (2): 187–201. Schwartz, Glenn M. 2006. “From Collapse to Regeneration.” In After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies, edited by G. M. Schwartz, and J. J. Nichols, 3–17. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Tainter, Joseph A. 1988. The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wilson, R. J. 2013. “Hellenistic Sicily, c. 270–100 BC.” In The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by J. R. Prag, and J. C. Quinn, 79–119. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1926178
Joseph Gómez Villar, F. Canessa
ABSTRACT This article addresses the relationship between heritage and ancestry. It aims to understand the manner in which human remains from different periods and cultures become relevant symbols for a community. The territory of Quillagua was studied, an oasis of the Loa River in the Atacama Desert, combining ethnographic, cartographic, and historiographic techniques. Two relevant findings can be pointed out. First, sense of ancestry plays an essential role in heritage formation, even more so than sense of place and sense of belonging. Second, sense of ancestry is not homogenous; rather, it is diverse and contradictory because it is constructed through clashes from interests such as economic and scientific interests, memories of difficult and violent pasts, failures in intercultural recognition, and environmental sacrifice policies with negative social consequences. Despite its contradictory nature, the concept of sense of ancestry can be understood as a heritage emotion that causes affirmation and empowerment, especially for those rural Mestizo and Indigenous communities whose cultural and territorial rights have been violated.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2020.1800214
Matt Smith
Omission from the museum does not simply mean marginalization; it formally classifies certain lives, histories, and practices as insignificant, renders them invisible, marks them as unintelligible,...
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2020.1746066
G. Middleton
The study of collapse has become a major research field within archaeology, as well as a popular subject in wider society, and a topic now often connected with the themes of climate change and envi...
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1934639
Naimeh Rezaei, Gelareh Alborzi, Leila Alilou
ABSTRACT After a long period of decline and deterioration, conservation efforts over the last two decades, influenced by global trends, are revitalizing some of the historic centers in Iranian cities. In a country-wide first, old abandoned houses in the historic core of Kashan have gradually become attractive to private investors and transformed into tourist spaces, generally boutique hotels. This paper investigates the impacts of these private investments on the surrounding neighborhoods by analyzing the attitudes and perceptions of local community members toward these transformations. Data were collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 35 participants including residents, shopkeepers and local visitors, in 2018–2019. The findings of this study illustrate the positive attitude of local people towards conservation and adaptive reuse projects, although some residents noted problems resulting from the implementation of these projects. The results indicated that it is necessary for urban authorities to take measures to mitigate the impacts of the tourism gentrification process and to maintain the neighborhood’s long-term residents.
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