Charlotte L Joy - The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali: From UNESCO to Djenné

The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali

The Politics of Heritage
Management in Mali

From UNESCO to Djenn

Charlotte Joy

First published 2012 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Joy, Charlotte, 1977-

The politics of heritage management in Mali : from UNESCO to Djenn / Charlotte Joy.

p. cm.(Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61132-094-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-61132-096-1 (eBook)

1. Djenn (Mali)History. 2. Djenn (Mali)Buildings, structures, etc. 3. Djenn (Mali)Social conditions. 4. Cultural propertyConservation and restorationMali. 5. World Heritage areasMali. I. Title. II. Series: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

DT551.9.D35J69 2011

363.69096623dc23

2011036202

ISBN 978-1-61132-094-7 hardcover

The aim of this Critical Perspectives on Cultural Heritages series is to define a new area of research and to produce a set of volumes that make a radical break with routinised accounts and definitions of cultural heritage and with the existing or established canon of cultural heritage texts. In a fundamental shift of perspective, the French intellectual Jacques Derridas rallying call to restore heritage to dignity is to be taken as an alternative guiding metaphor by which this series critically revisits the core questionwhat constitutes cultural heritage?and engages with the concerns (notably the moral-ethical issues) that shape and define the possible futures of cultural heritage studies. A key objective is that this series be of transformative value in the sense of outlining and creating new and future agendas within cultural heritage discourse using individual texts as building blocks.

This series of publications is therefore intended to provide the intellectual impetus and critical framework by which cultural heritage discourse can undergo a process of radical reflection, fundamental reconceptualisation, and engage in a subsequent reconstruction of its core heritage values, practices, and ethics. Central to this project is an alignment with a wider scholarship committed to disrupting the Eurocentrism that continues to underpin cultural heritage theory/practice and also with a contemporary politics of recognition that is bound up in articulating new, alternative, or parallel characterisations of heritage value. This commitment to produce a set of publications directed toward reconceptualising cultural heritage studies within these alternative intellectual, moral-ethical, and also grounded concerns is ultimately rooted in calls for the centring of cultural heritage discourse within a wider concern for the preservation of human dignity and human justice and to use these alternative discourses as a resource for future action in terms of creating a proactive (rather than reactive), responsive, and just future for a new critical cultural heritage studies.