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  • Decolonizing Heritage

    Time to Repair in Senegal

    by Ferdinand De Jong ...
    Series Book 65 - The International African Library
    Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Future of Religious Heritage

    Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

    Edited by Ferdinand de Jong, José Mapril ...
    The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage as both legacy from the past and promise for the future.Drawing on case studies from across Europe, this volume addresses the intersection of three well-defined areas of research: secularism, religious heritage and the question of renewal. Considering the heritagisation of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Heritage

    Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa

    Edited by Ferdinand de Jong, Michael Rowlands ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
    Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories preserved by local communities—markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

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  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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  • Borderlands

    Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition

    by Michel Agier ...
    The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places these liminal zones between countries and continents that have become the focus of so much ... Read more

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  • Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

    Edited by Gaurav Desai, Adeline Masquelier ...
    For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terrain—a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the development of the academic study of Africa. Critical Terms for the Study of Africa considers the legacies that have shaped our understanding of the continent and its ... Read more

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  • Africanizing Knowledge

    African Studies Across the Disciplines

    by Toyin Falola ...
    Nearly four decades ago, Terence Ranger questioned to what extent African history was actually African, and whether methods and concerns derived from Western historiography were really sufficient tools for researching and narrating African history. Despite a blossoming and branching out of Africanist scholarship in the last twenty years, that question is still haunting. The most prestigious ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Austere Histories in European Societies

    Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories

    Edited by Stefan Jonsson, Julia Willén ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    In recent years European states have turned toward more austere political regimes, entailing budget cuts, deregulation of labour markets, restrictions of welfare systems, securitization of borders and new regimes of migration and citizenship. In the wake of such changes, new forms of social inclusion and exclusion appear that are justified through a reactivation of differences of race, class and ... Read more

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  • Whose Middle Ages?

    Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

    by Geraldine Heng ...
    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    "An ethical and accessible introduction to a historical period often implicated in racist narratives of nationalism and imperialism." —Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Rowan UniversityA collection of twenty-two essays, Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Modern African Art

    Edited by Gitti Salami, Monica Blackmun Visona ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Art History
    Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization.A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and ... Read more

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  • Without Roots

    Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam

    by Joseph Ratzinger, Marcello Pera ...
    On May 12, 2004, Pope Benedict XVI - then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger-addressed the Italian Senate on the state of the West; the very same day, Joseph Pera, President of the Italian Senate, spoke before the Lateran College of the Papal University. Together they called upon the West to confront the spiritual, cultural, and political malaise that have afflicted it in the earliest years of the 21st ... Read more

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