LEADER 03678oam 2200553I 450 001 9910969761603321 005 20251117085454.0 010 $a1-315-41497-X 010 $a1-315-41495-3 010 $a1-315-41496-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315414973 035 $a(CKB)3710000000960715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4748543 035 $a(OCoLC)967739211 035 $a(BIP)56234618 035 $a(BIP)56234911 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000960715 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGlobal heritage assemblages $edevelopment and modern architecture in Africa /$fChristoph Rausch 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. ;$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (238 pages) 225 0 $aRoutledge Studies in Culture and Development ;$v3 311 08$a1-138-21947-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Global heritage assemblages : toward an anthropology of the contemporary -- 2. Diagnosis : modern architectural heritage as an anthropological problem -- 3. A pathway -- 4. Analysis : global heritage assemblages and modern architecture in Africa -- 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. Synthesis : contemporary politics, technologies and ethics to the rescue of modernity. 330 $aUNESCO aims to tackle Africa's under-representation on its World Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and twentieth-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. This book, a new title in Routledge's Studies in Culture and Development series, introduces the concept of 'global heritage assemblages' to analyse that problem. Based on extensive 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. Rausch argues that the global heritage assemblages emerging from those examples produce problematizations of the modern', which ultimately indicate a contemporary need to rescue modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing, epochal, and spatial culture. 606 $aCultural property$xProtection$xInternational cooperation 606 $aCultural property$xProtection$zAfrica 606 $aWorld Heritage areas$zAfrica 606 $aArchitecture and anthropology$zAfrica 615 0$aCultural property$xProtection$xInternational cooperation. 615 0$aCultural property$xProtection 615 0$aWorld Heritage areas 615 0$aArchitecture and anthropology 676 $a363.6/9096 700 $aRausch$b Christoph.$0976307 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969761603321 996 $aGlobal heritage assemblages$94469226 997 $aUNINA