Call for Abstracts: "Colonial Spatiality in African Sahara Regions," Part of the International Congress "Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures"
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Jacob Mundy
May 21, 2018, 9:10:02 PM5/21/18
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DEADLINE 30.06.2018
Colonial Spatiality in African Sahara Regions
Chaired by Dr. Samia Henni
This session investigates the ways with which European colonial regimes have shaped the design of African Saharan aboveground and underground territories, cities, villages, infrastructures, and societies over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. These Saharan regions comprise Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara. Colonized by different European countries—including Britain, Italy, France, and Spain—these climatically challenging territories served primarily to search, extract, and transport the desert’s multiple natural resources and assets. Yet, in what exactly consisted these designs? What were their impact on Saharan nomadic, sedentary societies and environments? And to what extend did these colonial territorial transformations affect the socio-economic future of the African countries in question? This session aims at addressing these questions and exploring the relationship between spatial planning, architecture, environment, and European colonial practices in African Saharan regions. We seek papers that critically analyze the involvement of European colonial civil servants, military officers, engineers, planners, and architects in shaping the design of one or more African Saharan regions. Of special interest are papers that disclose how particular projects or built environments had obeyed or disobeyed to Saharan or trans-Saharan colonial directives, and expose the multifaceted effects of such programs at national, transnational and international levels. We welcome papers that propose original methods for analyzing Saharan or trans-Saharan colonial spatiality in historical, political, economic, climatic and environmental terms.
This session is part of the International Congress "Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures"
16-18 January 2019
Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
SUBMIT ABSTRACT HERE
https://www.colonialandpostcoloniallandscapes.com/
DEADLINE 30.06.2018
Colonial Spatiality in African Sahara Regions
Chaired by Dr. Samia Henni
This session investigates the ways with which European colonial regimes have shaped the design of African Saharan aboveground and underground territories, cities, villages, infrastructures, and societies over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. These Saharan regions comprise Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara. Colonized by different European countries—including Britain, Italy, France, and Spain—these climatically challenging territories served primarily to search, extract, and transport the desert’s multiple natural resources and assets. Yet, in what exactly consisted these designs? What were their impact on Saharan nomadic, sedentary societies and environments? And to what extend did these colonial territorial transformations affect the socio-economic future of the African countries in question? This session aims at addressing these questions and exploring the relationship between spatial planning, architecture, environment, and European colonial practices in African Saharan regions. We seek papers that critically analyze the involvement of European colonial civil servants, military officers, engineers, planners, and architects in shaping the design of one or more African Saharan regions. Of special interest are papers that disclose how particular projects or built environments had obeyed or disobeyed to Saharan or trans-Saharan colonial directives, and expose the multifaceted effects of such programs at national, transnational and international levels. We welcome papers that propose original methods for analyzing Saharan or trans-Saharan colonial spatiality in historical, political, economic, climatic and environmental terms.
This session is part of the International Congress "Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures"
16-18 January 2019
Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
SUBMIT ABSTRACT HERE
https://www.colonialandpostcoloniallandscapes.com/
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