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African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development

African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development

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Series: Globalization, Urbanization and Development in Africa

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9811543682
ISBN13: 9789811543685
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 29 2021
Pages: 363
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
The richness of Africa's heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage can promote, secure, or undermine sustainable development with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and in turn, how this affects conceptions of heritage. The chapters in this volume 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 on the continent. By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of 'heritage', 'community engagement', and 'sustainable development' the volume suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socio-economic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism.

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