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RĂ©my Ollier And Imperial Citizenship
This essay discusses Rémy Ollier’s (1816–45) journalism. As an early claimant
of citizenship through (rather than against) the British Empire during the
1840s, Ollier attempted to redress a gap that he perceived between the
institutionalization of rights in Britain and Mauritius. Established accounts
of Ollier’s political intervention provide a rich narrative of how his efforts
are implicated in the development of rights in Mauritius and broader
postcolonial nationalisms. However, I argue that facets of his expression of
imperial citizenship reside apart from this genealogy. To explore how Ollier
uniquely created imperial citizenship, an “acts”-influenced approach to
citizenship is adopted. By analyzing his writings in La Sentinelle de Maurice,
I reveal how imperial citizenship is generated through a subversive loyalism
to Britain and an orientalist portrayal of indentured labourers. I conclude by
mobilizing Ollier’s struggle as a challenge to the notion that citizenship
realizes itself in teleological fashion
Latin American urban development into the twenty-first century: towards a renewed perspective on the city
This article argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending that it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the fractured cities perspective that has widely come to epitomize the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an overview of regional urban development trends, before exploring how the underlying imaginary of the city has critically shifted over the past half century. Focusing in particular on the way that slums and shantytowns have been conceived, it traces how the predominant conception of the Latin American city moved from a notion of unity to a perception of fragmentation, highlighting how this had critically negative ramifications for urban development agendas, and concludes with a call for a renewed vision of Latin American urban life