Book chapter
Global modernism and the postcolonial
Rethinking Global Modernism, pp 3-26
2022
Abstract
This introductory chapter establishes the theoretical foundations for the edited volume and explores what a postcolonized and decolonized history of global modern architecture might begin to look like. Outlining the editorial team’s framework for the collection, it provides brief introductions to global history, historical conceptions of modernism, as well as postcolonial studies in terms of their relationship to the historiography of modern architecture. It concludes with brief notes on the “post-postcolonial.” The chapter advocates for the development of a postcolonial global architectural history that emphasizes transnational entanglements and agencies while elevating marginalized voices and traditionally overlooked sites. Such a historiographical approach would produce an ever-changing narrative that would be beset by uncertainty, precarity, and incompletion.
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- Title
- Global modernism and the postcolonial
- Creators
- Vikramaditya PrakashMaristella CasciatoDaniel E. Coslett
- Contributors
- Vikramaditya Prakash (Editor)Maristella Casciato (Editor)Daniel E. Coslett (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Rethinking Global Modernism, pp 3-26
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Architecture, Design, and Urbanism
- Other Identifier
- 991021879762104721