Spain's African Colonial Legacies

Morocco and Equatorial Guinea Compared
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50406-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 127, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

The African cities of Bata and Al-Hoceima were created during the Spanish colonial rule of Equatorial Guinea and Morocco. This book constructs their local history to analyse how Spanish colonialism worked, what its legacies were and the imprints it left on their national histories. The work explains the revision of collective memories of the past in the present as a form of decolonisation that seeks to build different foundations for the future in a transnational and glocal framework. The result is an exciting puzzle of individual and collective memories in which Africans contest their colonial cultural heritage and shape their identities at a global level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aixelà-Cabré, Yolanda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Cities at the decolonial margins

1. Al-Hoceima and Bata: Local histories, glocal impacts

2. Colonial imprints in African city formation

3. Cities after colonial independence: The search for collective affirmation and decolonial contestation

4. Conclusions: African cities asserting themselves in a global world

5. Primary and secondary sources consulted

List of tables

List of photographs

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré, Ph. D (1967), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, is Tenured Scientist of Anthropology at Barcelona (IMF). She has published monographs, edited books and articles on Morocco, Equatorial Guinea and Europe, including In the Footsteps of Spanish Colonialism in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea (2018).