Recycling Recognition

The Monument as Objet Trouvé of the Postcolony

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2390910
AutoresFerdinand De Jong (0000-0001-9499-2546, University of East Anglia, UK, f.jong @uea.ac.uk, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas195-214
Fecha de publicación2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183508090897
OpenAlexW2135617019
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas25

This article examines the recycling of a colonial memorial to African veterans in Dakar, Senegal. This act of appropriation by the Senegalese government radically transformed the significance of the memorial and reconfigured the city's memoryscape. Whilst the Senegalese government thus reclaimed colonial history as constitutive for the postcolony, it simultaneously underwrote a postcolonial claim for recognition. The article examines this case as indicative for a wider trend to claims for recognition for which recyclia seem to lend themselves par excellence. As objects of mimetic appropriation, colonial memorials can be seen as the objets trouvés of the postcolony

Appropriation · Archaeology · Colonialism · Epistemology · Excellence · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy