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Julia C. Obert (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming) Dr Julia C. Obert (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Canadian/American/British)

The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities

Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor

Julia C. Obert (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming),  Dr Julia C. Obert (Associate Professor, Department of English, Associate Professor, Department of English, Canadian/American/British)

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Oxford University Press
14 December 2023
Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Literary studies: post-colonial literature
The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of these cities, outlining its history of building and urban planning under colonial rule and linking that history to its contemporary shape and scope. This genealogical information is drawn from primary source documents and archival materials. The chapters then look to local literary texts to better understand the lingering impact of colonial building practices on individuals living in (post-)colonial cities today. These texts often foreground the difficulty of moving through a city that can never feel comfortably one's own; legacies of racial segregation, buildings that disregard indigenous resources, and street names that serve as constant reminders of a history of oppression, for example, can produce feelings of anxiety, even of unbelonging, for native subjects. However, the literature also highlights ways in which the subversive wanderings of particular pedestriansEDtaking shortcuts, trespassing in forbidden places, diverting spaces from their intended usesEDcan contest 'official' topography. Bodies can therefore move against the power of a repressive regime, at least to some degree, even when that power is literally set in stone. Obert argues for the significance of these small gestures of reclamation, suggesting that we must counterpose the potential flexibility of lived space to the prohibitions of the map in order to more fully understand (post-)colonial power relations.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 242mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   490g
ISBN:   9780198881247
ISBN 10:   019888124X
Pages:   224
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr. Julia C. Obert is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming. She works primarily in the fields of postcolonial literature and theory, Irish literature, poetry and poetics, affect theory, and sound studies/acoustic ecology. Her first book, Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2015. Her writing has also appeared in a wide variety of Postcolonial Studies, Irish Studies, and critical theory volumes and journals.

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