Nation-Building and the Development Case for Cultural Heritage: Solomon Islands

dc.contributor.authorBarbara, Julien
dc.contributor.editorReeves, K.
dc.contributor.editorBird, G.R.
dc.contributor.editorJames, L.
dc.contributor.editorStichelbaut, B.
dc.contributor.editorBourgeois, J.
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-21T23:05:03Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2020-12-13T07:31:36Z
dc.description.abstractIntroduction This chapter considers cultural heritage from a development perspective. What is the case for donors to support cultural heritage activities more explicitly and systematically as part of their aid programmes? How might advocates for cultural heritage support as a development programme overcome donor reluctance to fund such programmes as a more important part of development programmes? To date, advocates for cultural heritage support have tended to base their case on a narrow range of arguments centred on the worthiness of cultural heritage activities (UNESCO 2011)1 and/or their economic potential as a source of tourism revenue and jobs.2 While these are important reasons to support cultural heritage, arguments based on the normative and economic potential of cultural heritage can be easily marginalised as worthy yet unaffordable in the context of scarce donor funding. This chapter argues that a different case needs to be made for why scarce donor resources should be diverted away from core donor priorities such as basic service delivery (i.e. health and education) towards cultural heritage programmes. Such a case can be made but requires a more sophisticated understanding of the political economy of development and why donor support for cultural heritage activities might be an effective aid investment. This requires an understanding of the challenge of development as a collective action problem - how societies might overcome social differences to better collaborate to support national development through growth-enhancing investments.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9781138900592en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/261295
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofBattlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritageen_AU
dc.rights© 2016 Keir Reeves, Geoffrey R. Bird, Laura James, Birger Stichelbaut and Jean Bourgeois. Individual chapters: the contributors.en_AU
dc.titleNation-Building and the Development Case for Cultural Heritage: Solomon Islandsen_AU
dc.typeBook chapteren_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage247en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationAbingdon
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage235en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBarbara, Julien, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu5445958@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBarbara, Julien, u5445958en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160606 - Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacificen_AU
local.identifier.absseo940299 - Government and Politics not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5727300xPUB137en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315707150en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84960196847
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5727300en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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