Season 1, Episode 8: Heritage Formation
Season 1, Episode 8: Heritage Formation
In this episode, Dr. Duane Jethro discusses the ways that heritage sites are constructed and re-imagined through the senses with special emphasis on post-apartheid South Africa and Germany.
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Biography
DR. DUANE JETHRO
Dr. Duane Jethro
Dr. Duane Jethro is a post-doctoral research fellow working with the project Making Differences at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. CARMAH was established in the Department for European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in partnership with the Museum of Natural History Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, as part of the research award for Sharon Macdonald’s Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. His research looks at the mobilization of post-colonial and decolonial language in the context of contested street renaming, heritage commodification, as well as heritage aesthetics and social difference in Berlin.
He is a graduate of the University of Utrecht. He is an Associate Research Fellow at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town, where held a post-doctoral research fellowship in 2016. In 2017 he was awarded a Georg Forster Alexander von Humboldt Post Doctoral Research Fellowship. His research focuses on the cultural construction of heritage and contested public cultures. He is a regular contributor to the online blog Africasacountry and has published in Material Religion, African Diaspora and Tourist Studiesand the International Journal of Heritage Studies. His book Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa is published by Bloomsbury Academic. The book references the path-breaking, sensuous work of the historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini. See also his book Native Nostalgia. It also frames South Africa’s fraught memory politics.