African heritage challenges : communities and sustainable development / Britt Baillie, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, editors.
Baillie, Britt, 1982- editor.; Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig. editor.
2021
DT14 .A37 2021
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Title
African heritage challenges : communities and sustainable development / Britt Baillie, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, editors.
ISBN
9789811543661 (electronic bk.)
9811543666 (electronic bk.)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4366-1
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 363 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-15-4366-1 doi
Call Number
DT14 .A37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
960
Summary
The richness of Africas heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political, and societal challenges that the continent faces across variegated contexts. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, explores how heritage can promote, secure, or undermine sustainable development, and in turn, how this affects conceptions of heritage. The chapters identify shared challenges, good practices and failures, and use specific case studies to provide detailed insights into varied forms of heritage and heritage defining processes. By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of heritage, community engagement, and sustainable development it suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socioeconomic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism. Dr. Britt Baillie is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and a founding member of the Centre for Urban Conflict Research, University of Cambridge. Prof. Marie Louise Stig Srensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and the Director of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. .
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 2, 2021).
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Baillie, Britt, 1982- editor.
Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig. editor.
Series
Globalization, urbanization and development in Africa.
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Print version: 9789811543654
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1. Heritage challenges: Perspectives on Contestations and Expectations from Sub-Saharan Africa and Neighbouring Regions.- 2. Needle in a Haystack? Cultural Heritage Resources and the Nature-based Environments of Southern Africa.- 3. African Cultural Heritage and Economic Development: Dancing in the Forests of Time.- 4. Heritage and/or Development
Which Way for Africa?.- 5. Mega Developments in Africa: Lessons from the Meroe Dam.- 6. Heritage and Sustainability: Challenging the Archaic Approaches to Heritage Management in the South African Context.- 7. The Antimonies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop.- 8. Transformation as Development: Southern Africa Perspectives on Capacity Building and Heritage.- 9. The Culture Bank in West Africa: Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development.- 10. Exhibition Making as Aesthetic Justice: A Case of Memorial Production in Uganda.- 11. Modern Nostalgias for Sovereignty and Security: Preserving Cultural Heritage for Development in Eritrea.- 12. Epilogue-Whose Heritage, Whose Development?.

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