Rausch, Christoph, author

Rescuing modernity : global heritage assemblages & modern achitecture in Africa / Christoph Rausch.

2013.

229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"UNESCO aims to tackle Africa's underrepresentation on its World Heritage List by inscribing instances of 19th and 20th century modern architecture and urban planning there. But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development for which these buildings and sites stand? After all, concern for 'modern heritage' invariably - and paradoxically it seems - has to reckon with those utopias as problematic futures of the past, a circumstance complicating intentions to preserve a recent 'culture' of modernization on the African continent. The present dissertation introduces the concept of global heritage assemblages to analyze this problem. Based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork, it 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. It claims that the global heritage assemblages emerging from those examples produce problematizations of 'the modern', which ultimately indicate a need to rescue modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompasing, epochal and spatial culture."-- Page 4 of cover.

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Cultural property Protection International cooperation.
Cultural property Protection Africa.
World Heritage areas Africa.
Architecture and anthropology Africa.
Sites du patrimoine mondial Afrique.
Architecture et anthropologie Afrique.
Architecture and anthropology
Cultural property Protection
World Heritage areas
Africa

dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.

Kuipers, M.C., degree supervisor.
Universiteit Maastricht, degree granting institution.

Rescuing modernity : global heritage assemblages and modern achitecture in Africa

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