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Cultures of decolonisation
Transnational productions and practices, 1945–70
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2016
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Cultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the ‘end of empire’ as a process. Where other accounts focus on high politics and constitutional reform, this volume reveals the diverse ways in which cultures contributed to wider political, economic and social change.
This book demonstrates the transnational character of decolonisation, thereby illustrating the value of comparison – between different cultural forms and diverse places – in understanding the nature of this wide-reaching geopolitical change. Individual chapters focus on architecture, theatre, museums, heritage sites, fine art and interior design, alongside institutions such as artists’ groups, language agencies and the Royal Mint, across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. Offering a range of disciplinary perspectives, these contributions provide revealing case studies for those researching decolonisation across the humanities and social sciences.
This book demonstrates the transnational character of decolonisation, thereby illustrating the value of comparison – between different cultural forms and diverse places – in understanding the nature of this wide-reaching geopolitical change. Individual chapters focus on architecture, theatre, museums, heritage sites, fine art and interior design, alongside institutions such as artists’ groups, language agencies and the Royal Mint, across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. Offering a range of disciplinary perspectives, these contributions provide revealing case studies for those researching decolonisation across the humanities and social sciences.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Ruth Craggs
Ruth Craggs is a Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography at King's College, London
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Contributor: Claire Wintle
Claire Wintle is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton
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Front matter
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Contents
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List of illustrations
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
1 - Part I Decolonising metropolitan cultures?
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1 Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order
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2 Humanist modernism
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3 Henry Swanzy, Sartre’s zombie?
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4 Anxiety abroad
86 - Part II Performing decolonisation
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5 The peasant armed
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6 Cultural heritage as performance
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7 ‘I still don’t have a country’
156 - Part III Decolonising expertise
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8 Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana
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9 More than tropical? Modern housing,expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana
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10 Designing change
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11 What colonial legacy?
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 13, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781784996864
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781784996864
Keywords for this book
Decolonisation; Culture; Transnationalism; Visual Culture; Material Culture; Literary Culture; Twentieth Century
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
