Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Africa Asia and Europe

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonialism remain embedded within the urban fabric of many European capitals. Neocolonialism and Built Heritage addresses the sustained presence and influence of historic built environments and processes inherited from colonialism within the contemporary lives of cities in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Novel in their focused consideration of ways in which these built environments reinforce neocolonialist connections among former colonies and colonizers, states and international organizations, the volume’s case studies engage highly relevant issues such as historic preservation, heritage management, tourism, toponymy, and cultural imperialism. Interrogating the life of the past in the present, authors thus challenge readers to consider the roles played by a diversity of historic built environments in the ongoing asymmetrical balance of power and unequal distribution capital around the globe. They present buildings’ maintenance, management, reuse, and (re)interpretation, and in so doing they raise important questions, the ramifications of which transcend the specifics of the individual sites and architectural histories they present.Additional ISBNs1138368377, 1138368385, 0429429282, 9781138368378, 9781138368385, 9780429429286Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe 1st Edition and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Neocolonialism and Built Heritage are 9780429769511, 0429769512 and the print ISBNs are 9781138368385, 1138368385. Additional ISBNs include 1138368377, 1138368385, 0429429282, 9781138368378, 9781138368385, 9780429429286.