TY - JOUR

T1 - Drawing the “color line”: Race, ethnicity and religion in Diu

AU - Grancho, Nuno

N1 - Nuno Grancho is an architectural historian and theorist who works at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, material culture and colonial practices and its relationship with the transatlantic world and (post)colonial Asia. His research examines how architectures and cities of struggle have shaped the modernity of South Asia. He is interested in how architecture and urbanism are conceived as a medium, and how this conception informs the legitimation of architecture and urbanism as social and cultural practices. Since 2021, he has been a Visiting Researcher at the Royal Danish Academy - School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen. Since 2021, he has been a Postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. Grancho’s research project entitled “Privacy on the move: two-way Processes, Data and Legacy of Danish metropolitan and colonial Architecture and Urbanism” (https://teol.ku.dk/privacy/indiabridge/ ) is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020.

PY - 2022/10/31

Y1 - 2022/10/31

N2 - This article explores how the ideas of race, ethnicity and religionshifted with modernity in Diu. While it concentrates on findingsabout Diu, the arguments it develops are more wide-ranging andhave a series of architectural, urbanistic, and anthropological implications.It addresses the construction of identity by exploring the multiplicitiesand slippages of colonial imagery, social histories, and spatialproduction in the management of populations and colonial cities. Weargue that the Portuguese shared ideologies rooted in race, ethnicityand religion that provide a consistent, detectable structure fora specific interpretation of spatial-morphological arrangements inDiu (the city’s buildings, architecture, urban layout, and spatial structure)in the context of the European colonial city in South Asia. Weanalyze the discourse with which the Portuguese created knowledgethrough cartography, tracing how ideologies linked to race, ethnicityand religion were historically internalized, and how they worked inconjunction with social structures and practices to produce the colonialcity of Diu.

AB - This article explores how the ideas of race, ethnicity and religionshifted with modernity in Diu. While it concentrates on findingsabout Diu, the arguments it develops are more wide-ranging andhave a series of architectural, urbanistic, and anthropological implications.It addresses the construction of identity by exploring the multiplicitiesand slippages of colonial imagery, social histories, and spatialproduction in the management of populations and colonial cities. Weargue that the Portuguese shared ideologies rooted in race, ethnicityand religion that provide a consistent, detectable structure fora specific interpretation of spatial-morphological arrangements inDiu (the city’s buildings, architecture, urban layout, and spatial structure)in the context of the European colonial city in South Asia. Weanalyze the discourse with which the Portuguese created knowledgethrough cartography, tracing how ideologies linked to race, ethnicityand religion were historically internalized, and how they worked inconjunction with social structures and practices to produce the colonialcity of Diu.

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/26884674.2022.2117110

DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/26884674.2022.2117110

M3 - Journal article

JO - Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

JF - Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

IS - 3

ER -