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1. Heritage challenges: Perspectives on Contestations and Expectations from Sub-Saharan Africa and Neighbouring Regions -- 2. Needle in a Haystack? Cultural Heritage Resources and the Nature-based Environments of Southern Africa -- 3. African Cultural Heritage and Economic Development: Dancing in the Forests of Time -- 4. Heritage and/or Development - Which Way for Africa? -- 5. Mega Developments in Africa: Lessons from the Meroe Dam -- 6. Heritage and Sustainability: Challenging the Archaic Approaches to Heritage Management in the South African Context -- 7. The Antimonies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop -- 8. Transformation as Development: Southern Africa Perspectives on Capacity Building and Heritage -- 9. The Culture Bank in West Africa: Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development -- 10. Exhibition Making as Aesthetic Justice: A Case of Memorial Production in Uganda -- 11. Modern Nostalgias for Sovereignty and Security: Preserving Cultural Heritage for Development in Eritrea -- 12. Epilogue-Whose Heritage, Whose Development?.

"The reconstruction of society after conflict is complex and multifaceted. This book investigates this theme as it relates to cultural heritage through a number of case studies relating to European wars since 1864. The case studies show in detail how buildings, landscapes, and monuments become important agents in postconflict reconstruction, as well as how their meanings change and how they become sites of competition over historical narratives and claims. Looking at iconic and lesser-known sites, this book connects broad theoretical discussions of reconstruction and memorialization to specific physical places, and in the process it traces shifts in their meanings over time. This book identifies common threads and investigates their wider implications. It explores the relationship between cultural heritage and international conflict, paying close attention to the long aftermaths of acts of destruction and reconstruction and making important contributions through the use of new empirical evidence and critical theory. Marie Louise Stig Sorensen is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Bronze Age Studies at Leiden University. She coordinates the University of Cambridge's postgraduate degree program in archaeological heritage and museums, one of the first degree courses in this field"--Provided by publisher

1. Introduction. Memorials and memorialisation – history, forms and affects; Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Dacia Viejo Rose -- 2. Commemorations of the Madrid train bombings of 11 March 2004: Grassroots Memorials, Official Memorials and Conflictive Performances; Cristina Sánchez-Carretero and Gérôme Truc -- 3. Myths of Salvation and Struggle: Contesting a Secular Pilgrimage in Cyprus; Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay -- 4. Heritagization of the Gulag: A Case Study from the Solovetsky Islands; Margaret Comer -- 5. Srebrenica Memorial Centre and Commemorative Practices; Dzenan Sahovic -- 6. Conflicted memorials and the need to look forward. The interplay between remembering and forgetting in Mostar and on the Kosovo Field; Gustav Wollentz -- 7. The Dudik Memorial Complex: Commemoration and Changing Regimes in the Contested City of Vukovar; Britt Baillie -- 8. From'memorial combine' to a 'place of learning'. The Heide¬friedhof cemetery in Dresden as an arena for competing cultures of memory; Matthias Neutzner -- 9. The Isted Lion – from memorial of war to monument of friendship; Inge Adriansen.