Can anyone help this student?
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From: Naomi Roux [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Mon 9/29/2008 7:27 PM
To: Marika Sherwood
Subject: query
Dear Marika,
I am a South African student, currently based in Johannesburg where I am
completing my MA in Heritage Studies. I am putting together a proposal for a
PhD and wondered if you knew of any organizations in the UK who could help
me with some information. Essentially I am interested in researching the
ways in which communities who are disempowered or marginalized use cultural
and intellectual heritage as a tool of political activism. Plenty of
research has been done into heritage and activism as it relates to First
Peoples such as the South African Khoisan and Australian Aboriginal people -
my interest is more in looking at communities who are marginalized through
class structure and economic disempowerment. Over the last year I have
worked closely with a community in South Africa who have used their history
as a place with important links to the liberation struggle as a platform to
agitate for service delivery, basic facilities, and a sense of recognition
and political voice. I wondered if you knew of any diasporic communities in
Britain where something similar has occured - ie where people have used
collective history or heritage as a means to agitate for political
recognition - and if you knew of anyone I could get in touch with regarding
this?
Regards,
Naomi
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