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Cross, Charlotte and Giblin, John D.
(2024).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348-17
Abstract
The role of heritage in development is gaining greater attention within heritage and development sectors, evident in support for formalised heritage interventions and institutions, as well as more general attempts to capitalise upon practices and meanings derived from the past. Attempts to instrumentalise heritage for development often fail to take sufficient account of contestation over what constitutes a valued past and a desired future, and formalised interventions that aim to mobilise heritage for development risk reproducing unequal power relations between ‘experts’ and ‘beneficiaries’, and within and between ‘communities’. However, outside of formalised development or heritage interventions, people frequently draw on elements of the past in responding to challenges and opportunities, or imagining a better society. Thus, we conclude by arguing we should ask not whether heritage can contribute to development, but instead consider how the past is selectively used to pursue ‘progress’ and who benefits and who does not.
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