King, Rachel;
(2023)
The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa.
African Archaeological Review
10.1007/s10437-023-09559-0.
(In press).
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Abstract
In essays like these, it is tempting to write from a turning point: to describe how, going forward, things will be different from what came before. We study the past, so we know that is not how it works. The trajectory of heritage management in Africa illustrates this exceptionally well. The right to govern national patrimony has been affected by regime changes and structural adjustments that have transformed or eliminated huge swathes of state functions. I am not a pessimist, but I am familiar with the recalcitrant entanglements of heritage value, governance, and development. I am also always left wanting more historical evidence behind the claims that heritage is doing something novel in the world today. And I know that over the last few decades, our field has benefited from innovations in heritage management led by colleagues working at the interface of local needs, national and sub-national politics, and various commercial industries whose ebbs and flows affect the security of the heritage sector. With all this in mind, I take this opportunity to consider a future for heritage management, specifically as it relates to labor and knowledge-making, paying attention to areas where I believe we are seeing the beginnings of real transformation—or at least opportunities to actualize changes that colleagues have been urging for some time. I will start by looking globally and then turn inward to archaeology as a discipline and its associated fieldwork.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Future of Heritage Management and Development in Africa |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10437-023-09559-0 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09559-0 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181277 |
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