African heritage challenges: communities and sustainable development
by Baillie, Britt Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig
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 chall…
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- Full title :African heritage challenges : communities and sustainable development / Britt Baillie, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, editors.
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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- Publication Date:©2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Singapore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 363 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789811543654, 9811543658, 9789811543685, 9811543682
- oclc:on1144877136
- LC Classification:HC800
- Dewey Decimal:338.9096
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