Post‐colonial projects of a national culture
Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12580287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beng‐lan Goh (0000-0002-7634-8025, University Hospital of Umeå, corresponding author), David Liauw (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-79 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-4813 • E-ISSN: 1470-3629 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13604810902726210 |
| OpenAlex | W2137885892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The search for alternative architectural expressions in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, has seen a shift from regionalistic and Malay revivalist architectural models to a trend labeled as Middle Eastern eclecticism, best exemplified by the new city of Putrajaya. This paper delineates and analyses these architectural shifts in these two ‘capital’ cities from the Independence to contemporary eras in terms of shifting contestations over what is ‘national’ in modern Malaysian history. Highlighting changing material and imaginative drives behind attempts to manifest power of the nation and their consequences on the architecture of these two cities, this paper shows how Malaysian architecture has moved from expansive imaginations in the Independence era to narrow albeit spectral imaginations of Islamic exclusivity characterized by the turn to Middle Eastern symbolisms toward the new millennium. This evolutionary architecture, we argue, must be understood in terms of the growing enmeshment of Malaysian nationalism within global political Islam which has led to the preeminence of Islamic over Malay identifications. The Malaysian case throws up post‐colonial predicaments of national architectural pursuits as nationalist politics become entangled with global identity politics complicating and, ironically, undermining original nationalistic desires to construct alternative modernist models rooted in local sensibilities
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Capital (architecture · Colonialism · Eclecticism · Independence (probability theory · Irish nationalism · Islam · Islamic Architecture · Malay · National identity · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Architecture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2012 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |