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Dr Lotte Hughes

The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom
Participates in 2 items
Lotte Hughes is an historian of Africa, empire and postcolonial issues, who specialises in Kenya. She is currently the Principal Investigator of an ESRC funded collaborative project, ‘Cultural Rights and Kenya’s New Constitution’, based at The Open University (UK).   Lotte previously led the AHRC-funded research project ‘Managing Heritage, Building Peace: Museums, memorialisation and the uses of memory in Kenya’ (2008-11). This resulted in the book Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya, co-authored with Annie E. Coombes and Karega-Munene (I.B. Tauris, 2014). Her earlier books include Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Environment and Empire, co-authored with William Beinart (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Sessions in which Dr Lotte Hughes participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
3 hours 30 minutes, 9:00 - 12:30

Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435

Regular session

Dr Zoe Cormack, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Moderator)

Dr Harriet Deacon, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK (Participant)

Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Moderator)

This session will address the potential and limitations of heritage as a tool for leverage, empowerment and dissent in Africa. It is widely a...

Paper

Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Participant)

The practice of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/FGC) does not tend to be seen and analyzed through a heritage lens, but from a range o...