COLOMBO: LAYERED HISTORIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

科伦坡：全球南方的分层历史

• 批准号: EP/Y032144/1
• 负责人: Sujit Sivasundaram
• 金额: $ 269.69万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY032144%2F1
• 关键词: COLOMBO; LAYERED; HISTORIES; GLOBAL; SOUTH

A Chinese-financed $15 billion dollar port city project is dramatically restructuring today's Colombo. Yet, Colombo has a deeply layered imperial past: it was initially a Muslim settlement, before it came under a succession of European empires, Portuguese (first trading post in 1518), Dutch (1656-1796) and British (1796-1948). This project interrogates how these outsiders made a city in an unstable environment at the centre of the Indian Ocean, in which arose a diverse society, generating an abundance of cultural production and a sequence of violent politics. The four pathways of research: 1) In environmental terms, this multiply- colonised and repeatedly-engineered city is built in a wetland without a significant natural harbour; 2) In social terms, in a heavily nationalised state, the city has resisted indigeneity, as it is inhabited by many minority communities with long narrations of origin; 3) As for culture, Colombo was represented in keeping with recurrent motifs, as a site of transit across the Indian Ocean, including for enslaved and indentured labour as well as settlers; 4) And on politics, the heavy work needed, at the bridge of sea and land, gave rise to urban violence between communities in the midst of civil war; sustained strikes and new political movements, even in the months prior to this submission. For all these reasons, Colombo's past is a mirror to the legacies of enslavement, empires, postcolonial conflict and inequality; the long history of global Islam; the rise of China at the doorstep of India; and the environmental crisis. To critique these relations of pasts and presents, the project will bring artists together with historians and develop an open- access platform which works towards a more inclusive future. By decentring global North narratives of diffusion, global South narratives forged out of nationalism, and narrow accounts of empire, port cities or bonded labour, this will be a transformative exemplar of research on and for cities.

一项中国资助的150亿美元港口城市项目正在大幅度重组当今的科伦坡。然而，科伦坡有一个深厚的帝国过去：最初是穆斯林定居点，在欧洲帝国，葡萄牙人（1518年的第一个交易哨所），荷兰人（1656-1796）和英国（1796-1948）之后。该项目询问了这些局外人如何在印度洋中心不稳定的环境中建立一个城市，在印度洋中心，在该环境中建立了多元化的社会，产生了丰富的文化生产和一系列暴力政治。研究的四个途径：1）在环境方面，这个多重殖民和反复设计的城市是在没有重要天然港口的湿地建造的； 2）从社会角度来看，在一个重度国有化的国家中，这座城市抵制了本土性，因为它被许多具有长期叙述的少数民族社区所居住； 3）至于文化，科伦坡以反复的图案为代表，是整个印度洋的过境场所，包括被奴役和契约的劳动和定居者； 4）在政治上，在海洋和土地桥上需要的重大工作引起了内战中社区之间的城市暴力；即使在此提交之前的几个月中，持续的罢工和新的政治运动也是如此。由于所有这些原因，科伦坡的过去是奴役，帝国，后殖民冲突和不平等的遗产的镜子。全球伊斯兰教的悠久历史；中国在印度家门口的崛起；和环境危机。为了批评过去和礼物的这些关系，该项目将将艺术家与历史学家融合在一起，并开发一个开放式访问平台，该平台致力于更具包容的未来。通过体面的扩散北部叙事，全球南方叙事源自民族主义，对帝国，港口城市或债务劳动的狭窄叙述，这将是对城市和城市的研究的变革典范。