Vawda, Shahid;
Denison, Edward;
(2022)
Towards the Cape Town Document.
Curator: The Museum Journal
, 65
(3)
pp. 485-497.
10.1111/cura.12516.
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Abstract
The Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) initiative was conceived at a critical confluence of existential planetary conditions and rising global inequality, exacerbated and accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine -Russia war, and a resurgence of racism and extreme nationalism. These phenomena share a common root in being products of the modern age and yet, paradoxically, endanger its legacy through the pursuit of inequitable and unsustainable practices. It is one of the key questions and concerns for MoHoA. MoHoA seeks to decentre, reframe and reconceptualise the legacies of the recent past in light of these existential crises, and to acknowledge the inequitable ways in which this past has been researched and recorded, and consequently valorised and protected. This article addesses these issues in the context of African cultural heritage and the long duree of its global connections
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Towards the Cape Town Document |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cura.12516 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12516 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Curator: The Museum Journal published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169112 |
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