Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa

Heritage

Solange Macamo¹  Paul Lane²  Stephanie Wynne-Jones³  Luciana Esteves⁴  Garry Marvin⁵  Colin Breen⁶  Jon Henderson⁷  Annamaria La Chimia⁸ 

[1] Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Eduardo Mondlane University, Avenida Julius Nyerere, 3453 Maputo, Mozambique;Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK;Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO1 7EP, UK;Department of Life & Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Poole BH12 5BB, UK;Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London SW15 5PJ, UK;School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK;School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK;School of Law, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK;

关键词: Africa;    Kenya;    Tanzania;    Mozambique;    Madagascar;    sustainable development;   

DOI  :  10.3390/heritage4030057

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Rising from the Depths (RftD) network aims to identify the ways in which Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) can contribute to the sustainable development of coastal communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. Although the coastal and marine heritage of eastern Africa is a valuable cultural and environmental resource, it remains largely unstudied and undervalued and is subject to significant threat from natural and anthropogenic processes of change. This paper outlines the aims of the RftD network and describes the co-creation of a challenge-led research and sustainability programme for the study of MCH in eastern Africa. Through funding 29 challenge-led research projects across these four Global South countries, the network is demonstrating how MCH can directly benefit East African communities and local economies through building identity and place-making, stimulating resource-centred alternative sources of income and livelihoods, and enhancing the value and impact of overseas aid in the marine sector. Overall, Rising from the Depths aims to illustrate that an integrated consideration of cultural heritage, rather than being a barrier to development, should be positioned as a central facet of the transformative development process if that development is to be ethical, inclusive and sustainable.

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