Christoph Rausch

Global Heritage Assemblages

Development and Modern Architecture in Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork, this book describes how various governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger and the Republic of the Congo, showing how this engagement produces problematizations of 'the modern', which ultimately indicate a need to rescue modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing, epochal and spatial culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138219472
• ISBN-10: 1138219479
• Artikelnr.: 47222267

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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