Dr Charlotte Joy

Charlotte’s fieldwork in Djenné, Mali and at UNESCO in Paris was published as ‘The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali: from UNESCO to Djenné” (Routledge). The book argues for a critical re-examination of the uses of the material past in the present. It examines the distance between heritage policy and everyday lives, the creation of ‘heritage elites’ and the unintended consequences of heritage logics.

Her on-going research is concerned with the destruction and displacement of cultural heritage and the responses of bodies such as UNESCO, museums and the International Criminal Court.

Watch a video highlighting her research.

Media Coverage

Book

Joy, Charlotte. 2020. Heritage Justice. Cambridge University Press.

Joy, Charlotte. 2012. The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali From UNESCO to Djenné. California: Left Coast Press. ISBN 978-1-61132-094-7

Book Section

Joy, Charlotte. 2016. 'UNESCO is What? World Heritage, Militant Islam and the Search for a Common Humanity in Mali'. In: Christoph Brumann and David Berliner, eds. World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives. 28 London: Berghahn, pp. 60-77. ISBN 978-1-78533-091-9

Joy, Charlotte. 2016. Cultural Landscapes in Mali: Historical Antecedents and Future Trajectories. In: John Beardsley, ed. Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa. 37 Harvard: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, pp. 63-89. ISBN 978-0-88402-410-1

Joy, Charlotte. 2015. Community and Ethics in Heritage Debates. In: Lynn Meskell, ed. Global Heritage: A Reader. New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 112-130. ISBN 978-1-118-76886-0

Joy, Charlotte. 2010. ‘Heritage and Tourism: contested discourses in Djenné, a World Heritage Site’. In: D Macleod and J Carrier, eds. Tourism, Power and Culture: Anthropological Insights. Channel View Publications, pp. 47-63. ISBN 978-1845411251

Joy, Charlotte. 2009. ‘Enchanting Town of Mud: Djenné, a World Heritage Site in Mali’. In: Ferdinand De Jong and M Rowlands, eds. Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa. London: UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications: Left Coast Press, pp. 145-160. ISBN 978-1598743081

Article

Joy, Charlotte. 2019. African art in Western museums: it's patrimony, not heritage. Aeon,

Joy, Charlotte. 2018. Protecting Vernacular Cultural Heritage in Mali. Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, 2nd Edition,

Joy, Charlotte. 2018. The International Criminal Court and Crimes Against Cultural Heritage in Timbuktu. Anthropology Today, ISSN 0268-540X

Joy, Charlotte. 2017. What next for UNESCO? Apollo Magazine,

Joy, Charlotte. 2017. Book Review of UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015,. Journal of Anthropological Research, 73(2), pp. 304-305. ISSN 0091-7710

Joy, Charlotte. 2016. The Mali cultural destruction trial at the ICC poses a moral dilemma. Apollo,

Joy, Charlotte. 2011. ‘Negotiating Material Identities: Young men and Modernity in Djenné’. Journal of Material Culture, 16(4), pp. 389-400. ISSN 1359-1835