scholarly journals Placing automobility in postcolonial cities: Towards an ontology of a displaced past

2022 ◽  
pp. 002252662110702
Author(s):  
Govind Gopakumar
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
Usable Past ◽  
The City

The mobility turn offers a rich terrain for research to investigate the exercise of politics and power in movement through attention to associated meanings and practices. Despite this, the ontologies that can anchor this research within a historical imagination remains largely uncharted. Happily for us, coming from the opposite direction history, and especially the field of transport history, has grappled with mobilizing history in the face of the mobility turn. Several scholars have offered “usable past” as a mode of mobilizing mobility cultures of the past to inform policy actors about future choices. But is the ontology of a usable past appropriate for countries enmeshed within pre/post/colonial histories of displacement in their society and culture? Employing a case of automobilization in the city of Bengaluru in India, this paper sketches an exposition of the “displaced past” in sedimented residues that continues to live and contest the enterprise of automobility.

scholarly journals Liturgy and non-colonial thinking: Speaking to and about God beyond ideology, religion and identity politics – Towards non-religion and a unbearable freedom in Christ

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Voice

It has been argued that most countries that had been exposed to European colonialism have inherited a Western Christianity thanks to the mission societies from Europe and North America. In such colonial and post-colonial (countries where the political administration is no longer in European hands, but the effects of colonialism are still in place) contexts, together with Western contexts facing the ever-growing impact of migrants coming from the previous colonies, there is a need to reflect on the possibility of what a non-colonial liturgy, rather than a decolonial or postcolonial liturgy, would look like. For many, postcolonial or decolonial liturgies are those that specifically create spaces for the voice of a particular identified other. The other is identified and categorised as a particular voice from the margins, or a specific voice from the borders, or the voices of particular identified previously silenced voices from, for example, the indigenous backyards. A question that this context raises is as follows: Is consciously creating such social justice spaces – that is determined spaces by identifying particular voices that someone or a specific group decides to need to be heard and even making these particular voiceless (previously voiceless) voices central to any worship experience – really that different to the colonial liturgies of the past? To give voice to another voice, is maybe only a change of voice, which certainly has tremendous historical value, but is it truly a transformation? Such a determined ethical space is certainly a step towards greater multiculturalism and can therefore be interpreted as a celebration of greater diversity and inclusivity in the dominant ontology. Yet, this ontology remains policed, either by the state-maintaining police or by the moral (social justice) police.Contribution: In this article, a non-colonial liturgy will be sought that goes beyond the binary of the dominant voice and the voice of the other, as the voice of the other too often becomes the voice of a particular identified and thus determined victim – in other words, beyond the binary of master and slave, perpetrator and victim, good and evil, and justice and injustice, as these binaries hardly ever bring about transformation, but only a change in the face of master and the face of the slave, yet remaining in the same policed ontology.

scholarly journals Adaptive reuse process of the Historic Urban Landscape post-Covid-19. The potential of the inner areas for a “new normal”

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Pinto ◽  
Serena Viola ◽  
Katia Fabbricatti ◽  
Maria Giovanna Pacifico
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Settlement Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City ◽  
New Framework

<p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIOCxSpFirst">Often in the past, the great disasters (environmental calamities, earthquakes, epidemics) activated unexpressed energies, triggering transformations of the built environment, able to give rise unexpected conditions of economic, cultural and social development. The fragility of settlement systems in the face of unexpected threats brings out the need for a new planning, changing our gaze on the city.</p><p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIOCxSpMiddle">The new framework of needs drawn by the pandemic and the renewed sensitivity towards the combination of health – sustainability, rekindle the spotlight on inner areas. These emerged as "reservoirs of resilience", areas to look at, in order to reach an eco-systemic balance.</p><p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIOCxSpMiddle">The aim of the paper is to return an experience of adaptive reuse of the Historical Urban Landscape in an inner area of Southern Italy, where the needs of health and safety of the community are integrated with the transmission of the built heritage to future generations. The goal is the promotion of inclusive prosperity scenarios, towards the so-called "new normality".</p><p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIOCxSpLast">Starting from an in-depth literature review on the cases of pandemics in history and the strategies implemented, the research identifies health security requirements at the scale of the Historical Urban Landscape and design solutions aimed at reactivating lost synergies between communities and places.</p>

scholarly journals Recalling the Past in Postcolonial Drama: From Counter-History to Sociopolitical Redress

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Imad M. Khawaldeh ◽  
Baker Bani-Khair ◽  
Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Colonial Histories

Through examining the texts of Ama Ata Aidoo's  play Anowa (1970), Jack Davis's play Kullark (or Home)(1979), and Dennis Scott's play An Echo in the Bone (1974); this paper  shows how postcolonial drama functions as an effective means for exploring occluded pre-colonial and colonial periods through constructing alternative histories that both refract the official accounts of the colonialist history and redress or treat contemporary societal and political exclusions. To this end, the researchers argue that the counter-discursive/ counter-historical task of many historical postcolonial dramas is to reconstruct their histories in a way that confirms the essential socio-political function of such plays. In this sense, a conscious linkage is being made between contemporary post-colonial communities and their past pre-colonial and colonial histories. 

scholarly journals Image of the Samara Volga region in the second half of the XIX – early XX century (based on the guidebooks and travel notes)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Ya. M. Tsyganova
Keyword(s):  
Volga Region ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reform Period ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Face ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
The City

The article examines the problem of the image of Samara and the Samara region in the second half of the XIX early XX century, the face of Samara of that era, the brands of the city and the province. The author shows aspects of the sides of the image of the Samara Volga region, which were reflected and broadcast to the Russian reading public on the pages of guidebooks and essays of those times, but have not yet been covered by historians and local historians. Disclosure of these issues will allow us to judge what images of the past of the Samara Volga region existed in the Russian public consciousness of the post-reform period, what new brands of the region appeared by the beginning of the XX century. In the course of the study, the author revealed that, firstly, the images of the past region are associated mainly with the Volga freemen and the names of the famous Cossack atamans; secondly, a significant part of the brands of the Samara Volga region appeared already in the second half of the XIX early XX century: kumis therapy, large grain piers, etc. In this regard, the second suggests that the Samara Volga region in the post-reform era was only gaining its place on the mental map of Russian society.

scholarly journals PRAEITIES SUPREKINIMAS URBANISTINĖSE ERDVĖSE

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Čepaitienė
Keyword(s):  
Global Culture ◽  
Cultural Globalization ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
Communist Countries

The article deals with several problematical units concerned with commercialization of the past in the postindustrial, postmodern consumer societies. Primarily, the process of the commercialization of urban centres – especially old historical cities and their images – is analysed in the context of contemporary global culture economics; also, questions regarding forms and shapes this process assumes are raised. Secondly, the consideration regarding the meaning of this process is given, in other words, what is it telling about the condition of our society and attitudes towards the past? Undoubtedly, an adequate assessment of the knowledge of socio-economic tendencies, which have to cope with cities influenced by neoliberalism, is very important and relevant to post-colonial and post-communist countries, which, like Lithuania, are still seeking for their identity in the face of economical and cultural globalization challenges. Santrauka Straipsnyje siekiama panagrinėti keletą su praeities suprekinimu susijusių probleminių blokų postindustrinėse, postmoderniose vartotojiškose visuomenėse. Pirma, analizuojama, kaip šiuolaikinės globaliosios kultūros ekonomikos kontekste vyksta urbanistinių centrų ir ypač senųjų istorinių miestų bei jų įvaizdžių komercializacijos procesas, kokias formas bei pavidalus jis įgauna. Ir, antra, svarstoma, ką tai galėtų reikšti, kitaip tariant, ką tai sako apie pačią mūsų visuomenės būklę ir požiūrį į praeitį. Neabejojama, kad adekvatus socioekonominių tendencijų, su kuriomis susiduria neoliberalizmo veikiami miestai, pažinimas yra itin aktualus pokolonijinių ir pokomunistinių šalių visuomenėms, kurios, kaip kad Lietuva, vis dar ieško savojo tapatumo susidurdamos su ekonominės ir kultūrinės globalizacijos iššūkiais.

Conclusions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Covey ◽  
Sonia Alconini
Keyword(s):  
Sole Source ◽  
The Past ◽  
Inca Empire ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
The City ◽  
Source Of Information

This chapter is an editorial conclusion to Part 1, addressing the themes of Inca origins that emerged in chapters on colonial chronicles, Andean prehistory, and the material remains of the Inca transformation of the city of Cuzco and its surrounding region. The concluding chapter focuses on the interplay between documentary and archaeological reconstructions of Inca origins, which begin at different points in the past and offer distinct narrative scales. Although colonial histories provided the sole source of information on Inca origins for centuries, archaeology has introduced important new questions about the relationships between the Inca Empire and earlier Andean states.

History, the Peasantry, and the Polish Nation in the Thought of Michal Bobrzyński

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Pajakowski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
National Community ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face

The most important historical works of today are those that take the past of a single nation and state as their subject, for the nation and the state are the highest natural, independently developing organism that humanity has yet achieved.Like most nineteenth-century historians, Michal Bobrzyński directed his research to the study of his nation's past and especially to the development of political institutions. History, for him, served to enhance a sense of nationhood among his readers by deriving lessons from the experience of the national community and providing a basis for present political activity. As a politically engaged historian, Bobrzyński faced serious issues of the need to reorient Polish national identity and to refashion the historical imagination to meet the needs of his people in the face of the political situation in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.

Furia urbana a Istanbul. Dai ‘Progetti di trasformazione urbana' ai movimenti di contestazione

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
Lea Nocera
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Over the past few years, a series of ‘urban transformation proj¬ects' has been radically changing the face of the city of Istan¬bul. In line with the political project begun in the early 1980s, aimed at reintroducing the old capital of the Ottoman Empire onto the international scene and transforming it into a global city, the hub of a network of financial services and international tourism, today radical interventions have been made in the old neighbourhoods of Gecekondu and peripheral enclaves in the city centre, provoking the removal and further marginalization of large parts of the population. The reaction of the individual inhabitants has joined with the activism of neighbourhood as¬sociations and the interests of professional groups, and become translated into many forms of opposition to the projects and the politicisation, though controversial, of these urban protests.

scholarly journals The Identity of Language and the Language of Erasure

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-199
Author(s):  
Sanober Umar
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Written Materials ◽  
The City

Perhaps it is best to summarize what this article is not about, and then highlight what it seeks to do instead, finally surmising those strands together cohesively. This article is not on Urdu as a medium for self-fashioning elite Ashrafi Muslims in Lucknow who lamented the “death of the city” in shahr-i-adab (the city of high culture and noble manners) kind of literatures, instead it is about how Ashrafis came to be normatively portrayed by prominent leaders of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh as “foreigners.” This article is not exclusively about caste politics,  but rather how the trope of the foreigner was used as a way to otherize and prevent some of the most downtrodden Muslims from availing affirmative action policies and how lower caste and Dalit Muslims themselves tried to find liberation away from their stigmatized caste histories, unfortunately without success as conversion did not eclipse casteist tropes against them. This article is not just about the institutional history of the fall of Urdu in Uttar Pradesh, but it focusses on how Urdu was used to shape the minority citizen status of Muslims, and how it impacted their political economy and caste histoies in Lucknow by using both written materials documenting these issues and oral testimonies of Ashrafi and Pasmanda Muslims in Lucknow. In the process, this article is about the contours that defined the production of Muslim minoritysm in India, externally by Post Colonial governmentality of the 1950s and internally by Muslims themselves who were compelled to “self homogenize” despite political and social fractures within the community in the face of demonizing and ahistoric stereotypes of the Muslim community as “backward Musalmaans” that ignored their multiple layers of institutionally created marginalization.

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