ABSTRACT
Focusing on Hall’s observations regarding the emphasis on ‘preservation and conservation … as opposed to the production and circulations of new work’, this chapter questions the efficacy (and undesirable dependencies) of strictly materialist approaches to heritage, invoking Hall’s notion of access to a ‘cultural repertoire’ as a means of thinking through a more living engagement. Drawing on African/Diasporic cultural frameworks, part explanation and part provocation, this chapter is intended as inspiration for those interested in transcending established heritage paradigms and, following Fanon, combining ‘our muscles and our brains in a new direction … [to] bring forth the whole human being’.
