UNESCO missions in lusophone Africa:

forging heritage, forging territories

Authors

  • Dirceu Cadena de Melo Filho Departamento de Geografia, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC); Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Política e Território (GEOPPOL), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-3646

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis23942

Abstract

The present text aims to analyze the ways in which the heritage and territory of the countries of Lusophone Africa have been produced by the UNESCO’s World Heritage missions. Performed from the 1980s in the newly independent territories of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, the heritages mission’s articulate visions and concepts about the countries, producing at the same time the heritage and the territories. The results shows how different types of missions have played an important role in structuring the territories of these countries, strengthening the different imagined communities, serving as a basis for international recognition and for identifying objects of heritage value.

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2021-12-22

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Cadena de Melo Filho, D. (2021). UNESCO missions in lusophone Africa:: forging heritage, forging territories. Finisterra, 56(118), 241–252. https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis23942

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Vol. 56 No. 118 (2021)

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