While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural
heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the
relationship between museums, heritage and development has received
little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation
between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage
studies and development studies to explore this under-researched
sphere of development intervention. In an agenda-setting
introduction, the editors explore the seemingly oppositional
temporalities and values represented by these "past-making" and
"future-making" projects, arguing that these provide a framework
for mutual critique. Contributors to the volume bring insights from
a wide range of academic and practitioner perspectives on a series
of international case studies, which each raise challenging
questions that reach beyond merely cultural concerns and fully
engage with both the legacies of colonial power inequalities and
the shifting geopolitical dynamics of contemporary international
relations. Cultural heritage embodies different values and can be
instrumentalized to serve different economic, social and political
objectives within development contexts, but the past is also
intrinsic to the present and is foundational to people s
aspirations for the future. Museums, Heritage and International
Development explores the problematics as well as potentials, the
politics as well as possibilities, in this fascinating nexus. "
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