13.05.2025
18:45
Weimar
Dr. phil. Jochen Kibel: Resistant dwelling in colonial spaces (DE)
Subjectivation, space and the subjects of rights of colonial urbanism Kenya’s colonial legacy consists in colonial spatial planning and the establishment of a plantation economy that made millions of Kenyans landless, as well as in the residential architecture of colonial urbanism. In Nairobi, architecture was used during colonialism to spatially segregate, fixate, control and the attempt to mould colonial subjects. At the same time, these spatial policies were constantly undermined in Kenya, not only by the Mau Mau resistance movement, but also in the everyday practices of the inhabitants of colonial architecture.
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