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Faire avec ou défaire les espaces de l’héritage colonial ?

Making or Breaking Colonial Heritage Spaces
Edited by Céline Barrère , Muriel Girard and Barbara Morovich
Escalier du palais du gouverneur à Basse-Terre (Ali Tur, 1932-1934)
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Credits: Charles-Chulem Rousseau pour la DAC Guadeloupe

This issue aims to unravel architectural and spatial legacies produced in “colonial situations,” exploring the contact, friction and tension between ideology, cultural exchange, ideas of modernity and related social impacts. Through in-depth fieldwork, this situated analysis allows for greater complexity in thinking about spatial production and heritage in multi-situated colonial and post-colonial contexts. Reflecting on the myriad of situated knowledge with other epistemological roots, this approach thus reveals “emergence” and “absence,” as expressed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. It also highlights “colonial, postcolonial and decolonial imprints” as legacies that must be contended with whether chosen or imposed. Focusing on processes, it adopts an evolving, diachronic, non-deterministic cultural approach. What do the remnants of these spatial production methods generate in terms of relationships with the past and the present, as well as memory and the creation of collective narratives, in which mechanisms of repression, removal, reformulation and reemergence play a role?

The issue is organized into three sections. The first addresses museum systems as reflections of continuity and power relations. The second deals more specifically with inherited architectural and urban forms in post-colonial contexts. The final section examines more acute situations involving armed conflict today.

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