The idea of decolonization has come to the fore in recent years’ scholarship on cultural heritage. Not that the concept is a new one: but with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall protests roiling the (haltingly) postcolonial world, it is entirely expected that heritage studies publications on the topic would grow. Not, either, that heritage scholars who are interested in the question of the past in the present had utterly failed to consider decolonization, but like pop culture, academia has its trends. The problem, for researchers, is often the mismatch between the speed with which trends flow and ebb, and the relentlessly glacial pace of funding applications, fieldwork, and publication. Some scholars have answered this eternal, and eternally shifting, need for applicability with tendentious conclusions about how their work responds to this decolonial focus. Others, more fortunate, have been able to draw upon years of preexisting research that legitimately...
Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong
Annalisa Bolin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University (Denmark) and a research associate at the Social Science Research Council (USA). She holds a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University. She can be reached at [email protected], @bolinresearch, and annalisabolin.com.
Annalisa Bolin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University (Denmark) and a research associate at the Social Science Research Council (USA). She holds a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University. She can be reached at [email protected], @bolinresearch, and annalisabolin.com.
Annalisa Bolin; Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong. African Arts 2023; 56 (4): 93–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00735
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