Abstract
This article unfolds environmental stories of a plantation house and grounds on the Seychelles archipelago by reclaiming the importance of the minor architectures that support and resist its imperial hold. The Seychelles, first colonised by the French, then ceded to the British, claimed independence in 1976, before a coup d’état brought about a single party state that maintained power for fifteen years. Using feminist autotheory and field philosophy as its primary methodologies, the article draws on oral history interviews with Seychellois cultural workers, family archives, and spatial memories passed down through the generations of a former plantation owning family. Thinking with the scholarship of decolonial feminist scholar and activist Françoise Vérges, a colonial family romance is satirically told of the blind spots and lacunae articulating spatial memories of colonial architectures. How can alternative spatial and environmental narratives be foregrounded that seek emancipation and resist power when it becomes most oppressive?
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