City, Country, Agency

Abstract

Abstract:Postcolonial philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak delivered the little-known “City, Country, Agency” as the keynote presen tation at the Theatres of Decolonization: [Architecture] Agency [Urbanism] Conference held at Chandigarh, India, in 1995. Republished after twenty-five years as a historical document in this issue of Future Anterior with contemporary commentary by the author, this keynote points to a past for decolonization as a paradigm within architecture and preservation that also has critical lessons for the present.