Title Global heritage assemblages : development and modern architecture in Africa / Christoph Rausch

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in culture and development ; 3 Contents Machine generated contents note: PART I -- Prologue: A Cult of Heritage -- Introduction: World Heritage as Event -- 1. Global Heritage Assemblages: Toward an Anthropology of the Contemporary -- 2. Diagnosis: Modern Architectural Heritage as an Anthropological Problem -- Crystal Palace -- Tradition against Itself -- Problematizing Modernity -- 3. Pathway -- Conservation versus Stylistic Restoration -- Heritage Preservation versus Architectural Innovation -- Modernization versus Heritage Preservation -- Toward Heritage Preservation for Modernization -- Institutionalization of Modern Architectural Heritage -- Modern Architectural Heritage in Africa as an Anthropological Problem -- 4. Analysis: Global Heritage Assemblages and Modern Architecture in Africa -- Crisis of Coevalness -- Site of Inquiry/Mode of Inquiry -- Form of Inquiry -- Toward a New Form of Inquiry -- On the Frontlines -- PART II -- 5. Modern Nostalgia: Asserting Politics of Sovereignty and Security in Asmara, Washington and Brussels -- Politics of Sovereignty and Security -- Global Heritage Assemblage around the Modern Architecture of Asmara -- Asserting Sovereignty and Security -- Restorative Nostalgia/Reflective Nostalgia -- Conclusion -- 6. Modern Trophy: Contesting Technologies of Authenticity and Value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice -- Technologies of Authenticity and Value -- Global Heritage Assemblage around the Maisons Tropicales -- Contesting Authenticity and Value -- Recontextualization/Remediation -- Conclusion -- 7. Many Words for Modern: Negotiating Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility in Dar es Salaam, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Accra -- Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility -- Global Heritage Assemblage around Modern Architecture in East Africa -- Negotiating Legitimacy and Responsibility -- Laboratory/Collaboratory -- Conclusion -- PART III -- 8. Synthesis: Contemporary Politics, Technologies and Ethics to the Rescue of Modernity -- Spaces of Experience/Horizons of Expectation -- States of Emergence -- Demands of the Day Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Cultural property -- Protection -- International cooperation Cultural property -- Protection -- Africa World Heritage areas -- Africa Architecture and anthropology -- Africa BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Architecture and anthropology Cultural property -- Protection Cultural property -- Protection -- International cooperation World Heritage areas Architektur Entwicklungspolitik Kulturerbe Africa Afrika Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315414966 1315414961 9781315414973 131541497X

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