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Global Heritage Assemblages: Development and Modern Architecture in Africa book cover

1st Edition

Global Heritage Assemblages Development and Modern Architecture in Africa

By Christoph Rausch Copyright 2017
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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UNESCO aims to tackle Africa’s under-representation on its World Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there. But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development for which these buildings and sites stand? After all, concern for ‘modern heritage’ invariably—and paradoxically it seems—has to reckon with... Read more

Part I.

Prologue: A Cult of Heritage

Introduction: World Heritage as Event

1. Global Heritage Assemblages: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary

2. Modern Architectural Heritage as an Anthropological Problem

3. A Pathway

4. Global Heritage Assemblages and Modern Architecture in Africa

Part II.

5. Modern Nostalgia: Asserting Politics of Sovereignty and Security in Asmara, Washington and Brussels

6. Modern Trophy: Contesting Technologies of Authenticity and Value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice

7. Many Words for Modern: Negotiating Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility in Dar es Salaam, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Accra

8. Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility

Part III.

9. Conclusion: Contemporary Politics, Technologies and Ethics to the Rescue of Modernity

 

Biography

Christoph Rausch is an assistant professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University College Maastricht, the Netherlands

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