Towards Decolonising Development: A Role for Heritage

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Abstract

This epilogue considers the contribution that rethinking heritage in development can make to the wider project of decoloniality. Specifically, it explores how understandings of heritage can enable the field of development to move beyond its complicity with imperialism. One of the most high-profile manifestations of recent global campaigns challenges the contemporary practices of retaining public statues that reflect slavery and colonialism. This chapter focuses on another controversy that relates to restoring appropriated artefacts to their original people and locations from the museums that now house them. In so doing, it reflects on how development can forge decolonial solidarities through the repatriation of these stolen objects.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCritical Approaches to Heritage for Development
EditorsCharlotte Cross, John D. Giblin
Place of PublicationAbingdon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter16
Pages270-274
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781003107361
ISBN (Print)9780367619756, 9780367619787
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameRethinking Development
PublisherRoutledge

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