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Decolonizing Benjamin in the Tropics: The long history of Guayaquil's arcades
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography ( IF 2.000 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 , DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12333
Robert Priessman Fenton 1, 2
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This essay interrogates the long historical development of Guayaquil's arcades, or soportales, by analysing their historical development and relation to global commerce through littoral Ecuador's experience of cacao capitalism (1700–1925). I do so by employing and referencing Walter Benjamin's now paradigmatic texts concerning commodity culture and modernity in Paris' arcades. My work critically and synthetically examines archival and historical sources that catalogue Guayaquil's urban and architectural development in that tropical city‐region. I explore how environmental factors, indigenous architectural techniques, globalizing commercial culture, cacao exports, and liberal ideologies form historical constellations expressing the multi‐layered influences contributing to the growth and modification of Guayaquil's arcades. This transnational history of the particular attempts to recast understandings of urban space, architecture, and the tropical as dynamic edges of capitalist cultural modernity. This essay both deepens and decolonizes Benjamin's work by analysing the importance of the ‘coloniality of power’ on the formation of Guayaquil's arcades and their afterlives as aura. Whereas the arcades of Benjamin's Paris presented him with the primary form of capitalism's cultural modernity, I argue that Guayaquil's soportales serve as constellations for reading an alternative (tropical) modernity predicated on plantation agriculture, Eurocentrism, and cultural hybridization as an expression of political economy.

中文翻译:

在热带地区使本杰明非殖民化:瓜亚基尔拱廊的悠久历史

本文通过厄瓜多尔沿海沿岸可可资本主义的经历(1700–1925年)分析瓜亚基尔拱廊或体育馆的历史发展及其与全球贸易的关系,以此来质疑瓜纳基尔拱廊的长期历史发展。为此,我采用并参考了沃尔特·本杰明(Walter Benjamin)现在有关巴黎拱廊中的商品文化和现代性的范式文本。我的作品从批判性和综合性角度考察了档案和历史资料,这些资料对瓜亚基尔在该热带城市地区的城市和建筑发展进行了分类。我探索环境因素,本土建筑技术,全球化的商业文化,可可出口和自由主义意识形态如何形成历史星座,这些星座表达了影响瓜亚基尔拱廊发展和改造的多层影响。这种跨国历史的特殊尝试试图重新诠释对城市空间,建筑和热带的理解,将其作为资本主义文化现代性的动态边缘。本文通过分析“权力殖民”对瓜亚基尔拱廊及其后世形成光环的重要性,加深了本杰明的工作并将其殖民化。尽管本杰明·巴黎的拱廊向他展示了资本主义文化现代性的主要形式,但我认为瓜亚基尔的《社会宣言》是一个星座,旨在读懂种植园农业,欧洲中心主义和文化杂交作为政治经济学的一种替代性(热带)现代性。以及热带作为资本主义文化现代性的活跃边缘。本文通过分析“权力殖民”对瓜亚基尔拱廊及其后世形成光环的重要性,加深了本杰明的工作并将其殖民化。尽管本杰明·巴黎的拱廊向他展示了资本主义文化现代性的主要形式,但我认为瓜亚基尔的《社会宣言》是一个星座,旨在读懂种植园农业,欧洲中心主义和文化杂交作为政治经济学的一种替代性(热带)现代性。以及热带作为资本主义文化现代性的活跃边缘。本文通过分析“权力殖民”对瓜亚基尔拱廊及其后世形成光环的重要性,加深了本杰明的工作并将其殖民化。尽管本杰明·巴黎的拱廊向他展示了资本主义文化现代性的主要形式,但我认为瓜亚基尔的《社会宣言》是一个星座,旨在读懂种植园农业,欧洲中心主义和文化杂交作为政治经济学的一种替代性(热带)现代性。
更新日期:2020-08-05
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