Denise Bertschi, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Nitin Bathla

Unearthing Traces

Dismantling imperialist entanglements of archives, landscapes, and the built environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the forces that shape postcolonial landscapes and built environments. Archival power, silences, and absences profoundly shape and structure postcolonial landscapes, spaces, and urban environments by controlling bodies, histories, and interactions. This book explores how to dismantle these imperial entanglements by developing an interdisciplinary dialogue that brings together history, memory politics, critical theory, and archival practice along with the built environment, landscape, urban studies, architecture, and the arts. Unearthing Traces catalyzes critical discussions that not only challenge the objectivity and dismantle the neutrality surrounding current archival practices and archival institutions but also question what constitutes the archive itself. The book unearths potential histories and minor narratives buried by the imperial production of pasts and silences. It provides a critical resource for scholars, architects, artists, activists, and archivists who want to engage with landscapes and built environments using a critical and postcolonial perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 268mm x 194mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9782889155507
• ISBN-10: 2889155501
• Artikelnr.: 68464734

Autorenporträt

Julien Lafontaine Carboni is an architect who has published in several journals such as Architecture and Culture, Charrette, GTA Papers, and Tabula Rasa. Artist-researcher Denise Bertschi works at the art, architecture, and history. Nitin Bathla is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, where he coordinates the Doctoral Programme at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies.