Time-space politics and heritagisation in Africa: understanding where to begin decolonisation

Ugwuanyi, J. Kelechi

doi:10.1080/13527258.2020.1795907

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“…This speaks to dialoguing with literature on the human and nature interactions connected to landscape memory (Harrison, 2015; Ingold, 2005) and particularly in the Igbo society (e.g. Ugwuanyi, 2021). As Ugwuanyi makes us appreciate the Igbo, they live in harmony with Ala (land) and situate all their actions on the land, which establishes human–nature relations that ensure the survival of landscape memories.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Land, Ala (the Mother Earth), has a vital place in the Igbo culture and tradition, signifying the human–nature relations. Ugwuanyi (2021) has indicated that local knowledge systems in Igboland are written on the landscape via human–nature relations and continuity of the knowledge across generations that began with known ancestors. Ugwuanyi (2021) relied on memorized narratives of landscape features among the Igbo of Nigeria to justify his theorizations on ‘territorial communion’.…”

Section: Landscape Memory and Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ugwuanyi (2021) has indicated that local knowledge systems in Igboland are written on the landscape via human–nature relations and continuity of the knowledge across generations that began with known ancestors. Ugwuanyi (2021) relied on memorized narratives of landscape features among the Igbo of Nigeria to justify his theorizations on ‘territorial communion’. In line with this, the continuity of the local knowledge system is enabled by the memories specific landscape’s presence evokes, especially the told histories and traditions of villages.…”

Section: Landscape Memory and Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He noted that one of the distinguishing features of the cultural values of the Nupe people is their tangible and intangible cultural landscape transactions. Ugwuanyi (2021) explores how heritage knowledge is built around time-space discourses in Africa, drawing on the lived experiences of the Igbo of Nigeria. It shows that local knowledge systems are visible on the landscape via human–nature ‘relational ontologies’, and such pictured living holds heritage in a continuum across generations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Landscape memories of land struggles in plateaus of two Nsukka villages in Nigeria

Nwankwo

Ayadiuno

2021

Human Geography

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The memories of landscapes that people hold can stabilize histories and traditions in rural areas, are entwined with everyday lives and have several meanings. The paper explores the memories that people hold about plateaus in two adjoining villages (Alor-Uno and Edem-Ani) in the Nsukka area of Enugu State, Southeastern Nigeria. This area is an exciting and essential area of the world, distinctly underrepresented in landscape memory scholarship. The paper shows that the plateaus separating Alor-Uno and Edem-Ani are landscapes of political memory of the ancient wars between the two communities and more contemporary disputes regarding territorial extent of the communities and use of the land behind the plateaus if you are in Alor-Uno. Alor-Uno claims that wars waged against it by several kingdoms displaced the community, permitting occupation of parts of the community’s land, and they seek to reclaim it from Edem-Ani. However, extant narratives often recognize the disputed area as part of Edem-Ani because of the use of the plateaus as a boundary by colonial administrators. The presence of the plateaus helps the people recollect these ancient wars’ memories, and they use it to seek legitimation of their claim over the land. The paper argues that the memory of past land use reinforces the legitimacy of current land tenure configurations and shapes sensitivity to territoriality leading to exclusion. This can sustain group identities across generations translating into a ground for future fighting. It calls for more attention to the non-human agency and in connection to landscapes’ political memory, which speaks to the current post-human thinking in human geography. It suggests that resource conflicts analysis should take social meanings, memories and identities connected to the physical landscape seriously, as they contain ideological and symbolic elements foregrounding conflict environments.

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Section: Landscape Memory and Conflictmentioning

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Section: Landscape Memory and Conflictmentioning

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Landscape memories of land struggles in plateaus of two Nsukka villages in Nigeria

Nwankwo

Ayadiuno

2021

Human Geography

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“…It is made to 'do' things. So, whether it is put to work for wellbeing, urban development, tourism or other aims, it is (re-)enacting, (re)producing and mobilizing selective past(s) (Davidson 2016;Ugwuanyi 2020;Wong 2013) and often doing many other unplanned and unintended things. Moreover, it resonates with what has been coined the 'affective turn' in heritage studies (Crooke and Maguire 2018;Tolia-Kelly et al 2017), showing how affect and emotions influence our dealings (and doings) with heritage and how heritage is affective and emotive (Buchczyk and Facer 2020).…”

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Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures

Veldpaus¹,

Kisić²,

Stegmeijer³

et al. 2021

A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning

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In this final chapter we address the key questions we consider to lie ahead for heritage planning, when pushing new practice and research frontiers. We build on and take forward the points made in Parts I and II, as well as discussions with authors and other heritage planning experts in academia and practice. We touch on those heritage issues that we believe could contribute to a more just, diverse and sustainable world. With this agenda, we aim to enrich and inspire both practice and research directions by suggesting new, combined, continued and alternative perspectives on doing, studying and reflecting on heritage planning. We focus on conceptual and thematic ways forward, supported by methodological, governance and funding considerations. There are many angles to be explored, numerous ideas to be shared and actions to be undertaken. This agenda is but a small contribution. Heritage planning and contemporary challengesSpatial planning operates in a world full of context: tabula scripta. Developing spatial policies, plans and designs for the future always requires interaction with pre-existing conditions: structures, creations, ideas, uses, values, pollutions and other historic layers. Engaging with them can be seen as a restriction, or as an opportunity to work with the potential of place. We would therefore argue that, conceptually, all spatial planning is a form of heritage planning. Conversely, heritage planning cannot be limited to what is formally designated or listed. As also discussed in the introduction to this book (Chapter 1), formal definitions of heritage, as for example used in European policy contexts, have become much broader over time .

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A socio-anthropological insight on the Agulu-Nanka gully disaster and the dilemma of cultural continuity among the indigenes of Nanka of South East Nigeria

Onah

Okpara

2022

SN Soc Sci

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Time-space politics and heritagisation in Africa: understanding where to begin decolonisation

Cited by 13 publications

References 32 publications

Landscape memories of land struggles in plateaus of two Nsukka villages in Nigeria

Landscape memories of land struggles in plateaus of two Nsukka villages in Nigeria

Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures

A socio-anthropological insight on the Agulu-Nanka gully disaster and the dilemma of cultural continuity among the indigenes of Nanka of South East Nigeria

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