African Cultures Memory And Space

Author : Munyaradzi Mawere,R. Mubaya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956792153

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African Cultures, Memory and Space by Munyaradzi Mawere,R. Mubaya Pdf

African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational text to the study of culture in ever-changing environments, makes an important argument that the dynamism of culture in highly globalised societies such as that of Zimbabwe can be studied from any perspective, but most importantly through careful examination of cultural elements such as memory, oral history and space, among others. While the book makes special reference to Zimbabwe, it profoundly and audaciously dissect and cut across different geographical and cultural spaces through its penetrating interrogation and scrutiny of different issues commonplace in many African contexts and even beyond. The book, written by scholars from different backgrounds and orientations, should appeal to scholars, researchers and students from various disciplines which include but not limited to Cultural Heritage Studies, Policy Studies, Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies and African Studies.

Author : Veysel Apaydin i
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787354845

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Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage by Veysel Apaydin i Pdf

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.

Author : Peter Meusburger,Michael Heffernan,Edgar Wunder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048189458

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Cultural Memories by Peter Meusburger,Michael Heffernan,Edgar Wunder Pdf

The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, places, and landscapes of memory have acquired a special significance. The essays in this volume, written by leading anthropologists, geographers, historians, and psychologists, open a range of new interpretations of the formation and development of cultural memories from ancient times to the present day. The volume is divided into five interconnected sections. The first section outlines the theoretical considerations that have shaped recent debates about cultural memory. The second section provides detailed case studies of three key themes: the founding myths of the nation-state, the contestation of national collective memories during periods of civil war, and the oral traditions that move beyond national narrative. The third section examines the role of World War II as a pivotal episode in an emerging European cultural memory. The fourth section focuses on cultural memories in postcolonial contexts beyond Europe. The fifth and final section extends the study of cultural memory back into premodern tribal and nomadic societies.

Author : Ferdinand de Jong,Michael Rowlands
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315421124

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Reclaiming Heritage by Ferdinand de Jong,Michael Rowlands Pdf

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. Yet, as the contributors to this volume note, questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled. In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. Settings range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana.

Author : Abebe Zegeye,Maurice Vambe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136659898

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Close to the Sources by Abebe Zegeye,Maurice Vambe Pdf

European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa’s indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to elaborate conflicting politics of self-affirmations. It both acknowledges and steps outside the protocols of analysis informed by nationalism, differentiating the forms that postcolonial theories have taken, and arguing for a selective appropriation of theory that emerges from Africa’s lived experiences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112618439

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Places of Cultural Memory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1580461395

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The Power of African Cultures by Toyin Falola Pdf

An analysis of the ties between culture and every aspect of African life, using Africa's past to explain present situations.

Author : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110655315

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The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes Pdf

Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness and the production of public memory. In particular, how and why societies remember and forget, what should serve as symbols of collective memory, and whether there exists space for multiple memory cultures are questions being vigorously debated once again. These discussions present particular challenges not only to official memory bound to ideological constructions of nationhood but also to the teaching of history and its links to social justice movements. The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics of historical memory in Africa will have relevance for contemporary politics globally and for understanding how memories can be mobilised for political ends.

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762507

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Harnessing Cultural Capital for Sustainability by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel Pdf

This book argues that the basic component of any society's social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. However, with regard to African societies, since the dawn of racial slavery and colonialism, cultural capital ñ indigenous knowledge in particular ñ has iniquitously and acrimoniously suffered marginalisation and pejorative ragtags. Increasingly since the 1990s, cultural capital informed by African knowledge systems has taken central stage in discussions of sustainability and development. This is not unrelated with the recognition by America and Europe in particular of the central role that cultural capital could and should assume in the logic of development and sustainability at a global level. Unfortunately, action has often failed to match words with regard to the situation in Africa. The current book seeks to make a difference by exploring the role that African cultural capital could and should assume to guarantee development and sustainability on the continent and globally. It argues that lofty pan-African ideals of collective self-reliance, self-sustaining development and economic growth would come to naught unless determined and decisive steps are taken towards full recognition of indigenous cultural capital on the continent.

Author : Gönül Bozoğlu,Gary Campbell,Laurajane Smith,Christopher Whitehead
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040003725

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The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics by Gönül Bozoğlu,Gary Campbell,Laurajane Smith,Christopher Whitehead Pdf

The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power. Including contributions from early-career scholars and more established researchers, the Handbook provides global and interdisciplinary perspectives on the political nature, significance and consequence of heritage and the various practices of management and interpretation. Taking a broad view of heritage, which includes not just tangible and intangible phenomena, but the ways in which people and societies live with, embody, experience, value and use the past, the volume provides a critical survey of political tensions over heritage in diverse social and cultural contexts. Chapters within the book consider topics such as: neoliberal dynamics; terror and mobilisations of fear and hatred; old and new nationalisms; public policy; recognition; denials; migration and refugeeism; crises; colonial and decolonial practice; communities; self- and personhood; as well as international relations, geopolitics, soft power and cooperation to address global problems. The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into the theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource. It is essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, museum studies, politics, memory studies, public history, geography, urban studies and tourism.

Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza,Ezekiel Kalipeni
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0865437076

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Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza,Ezekiel Kalipeni Pdf

How do Africans conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, constructions, imaginings of spaces and places affect, and in turn are affected by, social, economic and political change. These are some of the questions answered in this, the first book of its kind to address systematically the themes of of space and spatiality.

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956764440

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The African Conundrum by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R. Pdf

The African conundrum... is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardisation, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to address, though with varying degrees of success, since the 1960s. Lamentably, this African conundrum is rarely examined in a systematic manner that takes into account the geopolitical milieu of the continent, past and present. This volume seeks to interrogate and examine the extent of the impact of the geopolitical seesaw which seems poised to tip in favour of the Global North. The book grapples with the question on how Africa can wake up from its cavernous intellectual slumber to break away from both material and psychological dependency and achieve a transformative political and socio-economic self-reinvention and self-assertion. While the African conundrum is largely a result of historic oppression and a resilient colonial legacy, this book urges Africans to rethink their condition in a manner that makes Africa responsible and accountable for its own destiny. The book argues that it is through this rethinking that Africa can successfully transcend the logic of post-imperial dependency.

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas,Fabrizio Ricciardelli
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13T00:00:00+02:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788867289349

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Regional History as Cultural Identity by Kenneth J. Bindas,Fabrizio Ricciardelli Pdf

This book brings together scholars to reflect upon the significance and meaning of local and regional history, focusing on how these histories impact people’s cultural identity through traditions, culture, language, and politics. Scholars from all over the world analyze the process of communal identity construction ‒ the feeling of belonging to one state or nation regardless of one’s legal citizenship status ‒ by focusing on case studies from North America, South America, Africa, and Europe. By analyzing the cultural and social aspects of community formation through language, religion, symbols, politics, race, and blood ties, these papers reveal that national identity, rather than being an inborn trait, is more often a result of the presence of common elements in the daily lives of individuals.

Author : Munyaradzi Mawere,R. Mubaya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956763573

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African Studies in the Academy by Munyaradzi Mawere,R. Mubaya Pdf

For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be legitimately accepted as an epistemological discipline seeking objectivity and truth about Africa and the African peoples or a discipline meant to perpetuate the Norths hegemonic socio-economic, political and epistemic control over Africa. The compound question that immediately arises is: Who should produce what and which space should African Studies occupy in the academy both of the North and of the South? Confronted by such a question, one wonders whether the existence of African Studies Centres in the Global North academies open opportunities for critical thinking on Africa or it opens possibilities for the emergence of the same discipline in Africa as a fertile space for trans-disciplinary debate. While approaches critical for the development of African Studies are pervasive in African universities through fields such as cultural studies, social anthropology, history, sociology, indigenous knowledge studies and African philosophy, the discipline of African Studies though critical to Africa is rarely practised as such in the African academy and its future on the continent remains bleak. African Studies in the Academy.is a testimony that if honestly and objectively practised, the crossroads position of African Studies as a discipline makes it a fertile ground for generating and testing new approaches critical for researching and understanding Africa. It also challenges Africa to seriously consider assuming its legitimate position to champion African Studies from within. These issues are at the heart of the present volume.

Author : Artwell Nhemachena,Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762576

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Africa at the Crossroads by Artwell Nhemachena,Munyaradzi Mawere Pdf

This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars and activists on matters of decoloniality and transformation. By meticulously and painstakingly unpacking pertinent issues, the book provides unparalleled intellectual milestones and platforms for the oncoming revolution and quest for justice in the form of decoloniality and transformation. Drawing from several disciplinary domains such as Development Studies, Security Studies, Political Anthropology and Sociology, Economic Anthropology and Social studies, English Studies, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and drawing from scholars from across different universities in the Southern African region, the book provides multiple lenses from which to understand the complex goings on in a continent that can no longer afford to simply fold hands and watch while its citizens suffer multiple forms of coloniality, fetishisms and fundamentalisms.