Global Heritage Assemblages : Development and Modern Architecture in Africa.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- The Crystal Palace -- A Tradition against Itself -- Problematizing Modernity -- 3 A Pathway -- Conservation versus Stylistic Restoration -- Heritage Preservation versus Architectural Innovation -- Modernization versus Heritage Preservation -- Toward Heritage Preservation for Modernization -- The Institutionalization of Modern Architectural Heritage -- Modern Architectural Heritage in Africa as an Anthropological Problem -- 4 Analysis: Global Heritage Assemblages and Modern Architecture in Africa -- A 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 -- A 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 -- A 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 -- A 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 -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

Based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork, this book 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, showing how this engagement produces problematizations of 'the modern', which ultimately indicate a need to rescue modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing, epochal and spatial culture.

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