Heritage Culture And Politics In The Postcolony
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Author |
: Daniel Herwitz |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2012-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231530729 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231530722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony by : Daniel Herwitz
The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of heritage, Daniel Herwitz reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked. In this absorbing book, he travels to South Africa and unpacks its controversial and robust confrontations with the colonial and apartheid past. He visits India and reads in its modern art the gesture of a newly minted heritage idealizing the precolonial world as the source of Indian modernity. He traverses the United States and finds in its heritage of incessant invention, small town exceptionalism, and settler destiny a key to contemporary American media-driven politics. Showing how destabilizing, ambivalent, and potentially dangerous heritage is as a producer of contemporary social, aesthetic, and political realities, Herwitz captures its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change.
Author |
: Kenneth Usongo |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2022-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527580831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527580830 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism by : Kenneth Usongo
In the time since most African countries achieved independence from European colonial powers, it is unfortunate that these nations are still politically, economically, and culturally reordered by their former colonisers. This book argues that these nations often slavishly emulate Western values to the detriment of indigenous ones. It challenges the postcolony to ground itself in local experience and then nativise external values, which entails delicately sifting through both the domestic and foreign worlds to build a decent and humane society.
Author |
: Aníbal Arregui |
Publisher |
: Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783830987901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3830987900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis DEcolonial Heritage by : Aníbal Arregui
The volume attempts to triangulate three vibrant discourses of our times: It combines postcolonial and decolonial readings of cultural conflicts with assessments of ecological dimensions of those conflicts, as well as their significance within discourses on natural and cultural world heritage. The examples from four continents range from the medieval Middle East - already shaken by a convergence of ecological and social disaster - to modern imaginary constructions of medieval Vikings, the persistence of Indigenous knowledge in the Arctic, literary poetics of patrimony, and the heritage politics of Mediterranean urban architecture. Authors ask which strategies societies in developing countries use to defend their cultural and ecological uniqueness and integrity while being penetrated by environmental hazards and hegemonizing 'Western' forms of heritage culture; or how western societies construct their own past in ways that are sometimes reminiscent of traditional imaginations of a pre-modern past, petrified eternally in an 'ideal' moment of time. Colonial and historical forms of 'heritagization' of human and non-human environments, the essays show, answer to pressing emotional needs for a sense of stability. But the desire for nostalgia, frequently commodified, tends to collide with the similarly pressing need for political and economic survival in a rapidly changing world and in the face of accelerating extraction practices. Without being able to solve this dilemma, the volume makes an interdisciplinary contribution to taking intellectual stake of the asymmetrical politics and poetics of heritage and collective cultural memory.
Author |
: Achille Mbembe |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2001-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520204352 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520204355 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Postcolony by : Achille Mbembe
Refreshing a stale debate about power in the postcolonial state, this book addresses a topic debated across the humanities and social sciences: how to define, discuss, and address power and the subjective experience of ordinary people in the face of power?
Author |
: S. Osha |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2014-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137446930 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137446935 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Postcolonial Modernity by : S. Osha
African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.
Author |
: Jemima Pierre |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226923024 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226923029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Predicament of Blackness by : Jemima Pierre
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? This title tackles the question of race in West Africa through its post-colonial manifestations. Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of 'whiteness' to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African 'heritage tourism'.
Author |
: A. Teverson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2011-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230342514 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230342515 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonial Spaces by : A. Teverson
With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.
Author |
: J. Chalcraft |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2007-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230592162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230592163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony by : J. Chalcraft
This volume offers an unusual, interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars working on the major regions of the global South. The authors probe important episodes of resistance in the colony and postcolony for the light they shed on the vexed notion of counterhegemony, enriching our notion of resistance and pointing to new directions for research.
Author |
: Ilan Kapoor |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2008-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135976798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135976791 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Postcolonial Politics of Development by : Ilan Kapoor
This book uses a postcolonial lens to question development’s dominant cultural representations and institutional practices, investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics. Ilan Kapoor examines recent development policy initiatives in such areas as ‘governance,’ ‘human rights’ and ‘participation’ to better understand and contest the production of knowledge in development - its cultural assumptions, power implications, and hegemonic politics. The volume shows how development practitioners and westernized elites/intellectuals are often complicit in this neo-colonial knowledge production. Noble gestures such as giving foreign aid or promoting participation and democracy frequently mask their institutional biases and economic and geopolitical interests, while silencing the subaltern (marginalized groups), on whose behalf they purportedly work. In response, the book argues for a radical ethical and political self-reflexivity that is vigilant to our reproduction of neo-colonialisms and amenable to public contestation of development priorities. It also underlines subaltern political strategies that can (and do) lead to greater democratic dialogue.
Author |
: Simon Featherstone |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1578067715 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781578067718 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonial Cultures by : Simon Featherstone
An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture