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Concrete Time: Material Temporalities and Contemporary Mobilities in the Vernacular Architecture of Northern Vanuatu, Melanesia
Fabrications Pub Date : 2020-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2020.1721089
Marie Durand 1
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ABSTRACT In the Melanesian archipelago of Vanuatu, the development of the Recognised Seasonal Employers schemes signed with New Zealand and Australia has recently increased people’s mobilities. While, previously, migrations occurred mainly between rural islands and the archipelago’s urban centres, Ni-Vanuatu people now frequently spend several months of the year working abroad. On the other hand, asserting a continuous presence on one’s land is also crucial in terms of social and spatial senses of belonging. On some rural islands, like Mere Lava in the northern part of the archipelago, this is largely negotiated through architecture. Material and social investments concerning place are then a matter of choice as much as of the resources available to people: should they invest in semi-permanent concrete and corrugated iron houses or rather rely upon local materials and customary technical processes? These questions are entangled with complex ideological understandings of the different buildings and grounded in the socio-histories of the places concerned. This paper explores these issues through a comparative analysis of various choices made by people with respect to both imported and local materials such as concrete, leaves, vines and wood. The aim is to contribute to an analysis of the role of vernacular architecture in the way people deal with the multiple and sometimes conflicting temporalities of contemporary lives and mobilities in Vanuatu.

中文翻译:

具体时间:美拉尼西亚瓦努阿图北部乡土建筑中的物质时间性和当代流动性

摘要 在瓦努阿图的美拉尼西亚群岛,与新西兰和澳大利亚签署的公认季节性雇主计划的发展最近增加了人们的流动性。以前,移民主要发生在农村岛屿和群岛的城市中心之间,但现在尼瓦努阿图人经常在一年中的几个月里在国外工作。另一方面,在社会和空间归属感方面,坚持在自己的土地上持续存在也是至关重要的。在一些乡村岛屿上,例如群岛北部的 Mere Lava,这主要是通过建筑协商解决的。因此,与地方有关的物质和社会投资与人们可用的资源一样是一个选择问题:他们应该投资于半永久性混凝土和波纹铁房,还是应该依赖当地材料和惯用的技术流程?这些问题与对不同建筑的复杂意识形态理解纠缠在一起,并植根于相关地方的社会历史。本文通过比较分析人们对进口和本地材料(如混凝土、树叶、藤蔓和木材)所做的各种选择来探讨这些问题。目的是有助于分析乡土建筑在人们处理瓦努阿图当代生活和流动的多重且有时相互冲突的时间性的方式中的作用。
更新日期:2020-01-02
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