Yigit Turan, Burcu
- Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
When considering the question of coloniality in the landscape, places outside of Europe frequently come to mind. Sweden, in particular, remains an exception, having gained a popular image with its welfare state policies, generous modernist housing and landscapes for the working class, democratic social life, 1970s anti-colonial and anti-racist discourses, and a strong connection to nature. Against this backdrop, this chapter investigates the “dark side” of modernity, namely the origins and features of coloniality that imposed race on the epistemologies that underpin landscape and spatial imagination. It argues that such perspectives are critical to understanding the normalization of white privilege and the subjugating, dispossessing, and extractive ideological constructions in public discourse and market-oriented urban development that target modernist welfare housing areas where non-white communities live today. It underlines the importance of historicizing racialized imaginations in order to identify what needs to be dismantled for truly sustainable, democratic, anti-racist, and egalitarian planetary welfare futures.
Published in
Title: Landscape Is...! : Essays on the Meaning of Landscape
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Landscape Architecture
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003148142-4
- ISBN: 9780367708245
- eISBN: 9781003148142
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/142900