HERITAGE, MUSEUMS AND MEMORIALISATION IN KENYA
Exploring the past in the present
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HERITAGE, MUSEUMS AND MEMORIALISATION IN KENYA Exploring the past in the present |
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Welcome to our site. It celebrates research on contemporary heritage developments in Kenya, with some comparative reference to South Africa. Our research is about to enter a new phase, following the award of a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to Principal Investigator Dr Lotte Hughes. This three-year interdisciplinary and collaborative project is called ‘Managing Heritage, Building Peace: Museums, memorialisation and the uses of memory in Kenya’. It will build upon the earlier pilot phase, and continue to involve scholars, museums and civil society groups in Kenya. We are also pleased to welcome to the team Prof. Annie Coombes of Birkbeck College, University of London, and Dr Anna Bohlin of Göteborg University, Sweden. Through multi-sited fieldwork and other means the project will investigate and document the many ways in which Kenyans engage with heritage and memory, and use culture to foster peace and reconciliation. It will study both state-led national heritage management and community-driven heritage initiatives, which include community peace museums, community ecological governance of sacred forests, and other activities around sites of memory. • THIS SITE IS IN PROGRESS – Please note the
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Website updated: 25 November 2008 This project is grateful for the support of:
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