An un-inherited past: preserving the Khami world heritage site, Zimbabwe

 National narratives are not collective memory. They are socially engineered processes that requires forgetting. The thesis analyses the social dynamics of heritage in postcolonial Africa using Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe. It traces how Khami was uninherited through changing identities, population movement, processes of remembering and forgetting in nation-building processes

Decolonizing the Tropics: Part One

This special issue is a collection of papers that addresses and enacts the theme of decolonizing the tropics. Each article provides a sense of how we can untangle ourselves from entrenched colonial epistemologies and ontologies through detailed articulations of research practice. Drawing together humanities and social sciences, the papers collectively address questions of whose voices are heard or silenced, what positions we write from, how we are allowed to articulate our ideas, and through which mediums we present our research. In doing so, the contributions foreground the critical importance of these and other questions in any move towards decolonizing the tropics

Decolonizing the Tropics : Part One

This special issue is a collection of papers that addresses and enacts the theme of decolonizing the tropics. Each article provides a sense of how we can untangle ourselves from entrenched colonial epistemologies and ontologies through detailed articulations of research practice. Drawing together humanities and social sciences, the papers collectively address questions of whose voices are heard or silenced, what positions we write from, how we are allowed to articulate our ideas, and through which mediums we present our research. In doing so, the contributions foreground the critical importance of these and other questions in any move towards decolonizing the tropics

Decolonizing the Tropics: Part One

This special issue is a collection of papers that addresses and enacts the theme of decolonizing the tropics. Each article provides a sense of how we can untangle ourselves from entrenched colonial epistemologies and ontologies through detailed articulations of research practice. Drawing together humanities and social sciences, the papers collectively address questions of whose voices are heard or silenced, what positions we write from, how we are allowed to articulate our ideas, and through which mediums we present our research. In doing so, the contributions foreground the critical importance of these and other questions in any move towards decolonizing the tropics

Decoloniality and Tropicality: Part Two

The papers collected together in this special issue on the theme ‘decoloniality and tropicality’ discuss and demonstrate how we can move towards disentangling ourselves from persistent colonial epistemologies and ontologies. Engaging theories of decoloniality and postcolonialism with tropicality, the articles explore the material poetics of philosophical reverie; the 'tropical natureculture' imaginaries of sex tourism, ecotourism, and militourism; deep readings of an anthropophagic movement, ecocritical literature, and the ecoGothic; the spaces of a tropical flâneuse and diasporic vernacular architecture; and in the decoloniality of education, a historical analysis of colonial female education and a film analysis for contemporary educational praxis

Projets situés: 10 ans d'expérience de terrain / 10 years of field experience

Ouvrage bilingue: français / anglaisCet ouvrage retrace la mise en œuvre du programme Africa 2009, initié par le Centre du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, à travers des projets dits situés visant à améliorer les conditions de la conservation du patrimoine immobilier dans la région de l'Afrique subsaharienne tout en se positionnant dans le cadre plus large du développement durable. Cette publication illustre le dynamisme d'un réseau de professionnels aux capacités renforcées et se veut également être un instrument incitatif pour les professionnels du patrimoine africain et leurs partenaires locaux, nationaux, régionaux et internationaux, vers la poursuite et la multiplication d'actions concrètes en faveur de ce riche patrimoine

Projets situés: 10 ans d'expérience de terrain / 10 years of field experience

Ouvrage bilingue: français / anglaisCet ouvrage retrace la mise en œuvre du programme Africa 2009, initié par le Centre du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, à travers des projets dits situés visant à améliorer les conditions de la conservation du patrimoine immobilier dans la région de l'Afrique subsaharienne tout en se positionnant dans le cadre plus large du développement durable. Cette publication illustre le dynamisme d'un réseau de professionnels aux capacités renforcées et se veut également être un instrument incitatif pour les professionnels du patrimoine africain et leurs partenaires locaux, nationaux, régionaux et internationaux, vers la poursuite et la multiplication d'actions concrètes en faveur de ce riche patrimoine

Conservation of archaeological daga (adobe) structures, Domboshaba National Monument, Botswana

Domboshaba is a Zimbabwe culture site in eastern Botswana. It had been suffering from neglect until an Africa 2009 documentation workshop was held there. This workshop recommended remedial conservation to arrest the deterioration of the dry stone walls and daga (abode) structures at the site. This paper presents some of the accomplishments of the workshop and the methods used to preserve the daga structures at Domboshaba. It also offers recommendations for others managing these types of sites in southern Africa