Labadi, Sophia;
(2022)
Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN in 2015 have influenced the actions of international and intergovernmental organisations and governments around the world, and have dictated priorities for international aid spending. Culture, including heritage, is often presented as fundamental to addressing the SDGs: since 2010, the United Nations has adopted no fewer than five major policy recommendations that assert its importance as a driver and enabler of development. Yet, heritage is marginalized from the Sustainable Development Goals. Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development constitutes a substantial and original assessment of whether and how heritage has contributed to three key dimensions of sustainable development (namely poverty reduction, gender equality and environmental sustainability) within the context of its marginalisation from the Sustainable Development Goals and from previous international development agendas. Sophia Labadi adopts a novel, inclusive, large-scale and systematic approach, providing the first comprehensive history of the international approaches on culture (including heritage) for development, from 1970 to the present day. This book is also the first to assess the negative and positive impacts of all the international projects implemented in sub-Saharan Africa by a consortium of UN organisations that aimed to provide evidence for the contribution of heritage for development in time for the negotiation of the SDGs. The book’s conclusions provide recommendations for rethinking heritage for development, while reflecting on the major shortcomings of the selected projects.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-80008-192-5 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800081925 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Sophia Labadi, 2022 Images © copyright holders named in captions, 2022 Any third- party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third- party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC 4.0), https://creative comm ons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Labadi, S. 2022. Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800081925 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | heritage, sustainable development, sustainability, Africa, international aid, poverty reduction, Sustainable Development Goals |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148310 |
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