David O’kane
Biographic Data
| ID | 169639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David O’kane |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | O’kane |
| SIGNATURE | O’KANE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
To introduce this special issue of Modern Africa, the editors review Eritrea’s current condition and consider its historical roots: they place this Horn of Africa state in a broader historical context, one where neither relevant comparative cases nor past precedents are limited to its region. Hopes that were once invested in Eritrea as a model developmental state have now, thirty years since its independence, been thoroughly disappointed. The hum…
Heritage’ and ‘cultural practice’ in a globalized disaster
The Ebola crisis of 2013–2015 highlighted the relationship between cultural heritage, neoliberal globalization and public health. It also raised the problem of cultural compatibility between organizations within the global ‘epidemic space’, which intruded on the pre-existing ‘heritage space’. In this paper, we discuss the differences and disjunctures between ‘heritage’ as it was explicitly and implicitly defined by two organizations positioned ve…
Eritrea
Limits to State‐Led Nation‐Building? An Eritrean Village Responds Selectively to the Plans of the Eritrean Government
Since independence in the early 1990s, the east A frican state of E ritrea has been ruled by a self‐consciously nationalist and modernising authoritarian regime, which seeks to build an Eritrean national consciousness among the country's 3.5 million people via top‐down strategies of intervention in rural communities. These are not limited to the use of cultural interventions intended to revise people's identities. They also take the form of state…
Introduction
This thematic issue on postcolonial heritage management and tourism in Africa offers a selection of case studies that reveal the significance of heritage to the construction of identity in postcolonial and post-apartheid African states. Drawing insights from the critical literature on heritage, as well as from the discussion on identity as discursive and continually rejuvenated, the authors reveal the complexities of heritage management on the co…
Heritage’ and ‘cultural practice’ in a globalized disaster
The Ebola crisis of 2013–2015 highlighted the relationship between cultural heritage, neoliberal globalization and public health. It also raised the problem of cultural compatibility between organizations within the global ‘epidemic space’, which intruded on the pre-existing ‘heritage space’. In this paper, we discuss the differences and disjunctures between ‘heritage’ as it was explicitly and implicitly defined by two organizations positioned ve…
Limits to State‐Led Nation‐Building? An Eritrean Village Responds Selectively to the Plans of the Eritrean Government
Since independence in the early 1990s, the east A frican state of E ritrea has been ruled by a self‐consciously nationalist and modernising authoritarian regime, which seeks to build an Eritrean national consciousness among the country's 3.5 million people via top‐down strategies of intervention in rural communities. These are not limited to the use of cultural interventions intended to revise people's identities. They also take the form of state…
Introduction
This thematic issue on postcolonial heritage management and tourism in Africa offers a selection of case studies that reveal the significance of heritage to the construction of identity in postcolonial and post-apartheid African states. Drawing insights from the critical literature on heritage, as well as from the discussion on identity as discursive and continually rejuvenated, the authors reveal the complexities of heritage management on the co…
Introduction
This thematic issue on postcolonial heritage management and tourism in Africa offers a selection of case studies that reveal the significance of heritage to the construction of identity in postcolonial and post-apartheid African states. Drawing insights from the critical literature on heritage, as well as from the discussion on identity as discursive and continually rejuvenated, the authors reveal the complexities of heritage management on the co…
Limits to State‐Led Nation‐Building? An Eritrean Village Responds Selectively to the Plans of the Eritrean Government
Since independence in the early 1990s, the east A frican state of E ritrea has been ruled by a self‐consciously nationalist and modernising authoritarian regime, which seeks to build an Eritrean national consciousness among the country's 3.5 million people via top‐down strategies of intervention in rural communities. These are not limited to the use of cultural interventions intended to revise people's identities. They also take the form of state…
Eritrea
Heritage’ and ‘cultural practice’ in a globalized disaster
The Ebola crisis of 2013–2015 highlighted the relationship between cultural heritage, neoliberal globalization and public health. It also raised the problem of cultural compatibility between organizations within the global ‘epidemic space’, which intruded on the pre-existing ‘heritage space’. In this paper, we discuss the differences and disjunctures between ‘heritage’ as it was explicitly and implicitly defined by two organizations positioned ve…
Introduction
To introduce this special issue of Modern Africa, the editors review Eritrea’s current condition and consider its historical roots: they place this Horn of Africa state in a broader historical context, one where neither relevant comparative cases nor past precedents are limited to its region. Hopes that were once invested in Eritrea as a model developmental state have now, thirty years since its independence, been thoroughly disappointed. The hum…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cultural heritage (2 works) · Cultural heritage management (2 works)