"The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power. Including contributions from early-career scholars and more established researchers, the Handbook provides global and interdisciplinary perspectives on the political nature, significance and consequence of heritageand the various practices of management and interpretation. Taking a broad view of heritage, which includes not just tangible and intangible phenomena, but the ways in which people and societies live with, embody, experience, value and use the past, the volume provides a critical survey of political tensions over heritage in diverse social and cultural contexts. Chapters within the book consider topics such as: neoliberal dynamics; terror and mobilisations of fear and hatred; old and new nationalisms; public policy; recognition; denials; migration and refugeeism; crises; colonial and decolonial practice; communities; self-and personhood; as well as international relations, geopolitics, soft power and cooperation to address global problems. The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource. It is essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, museum studies, politics, memory studies, public history, geography, urban studies and tourism"--
The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power.
Including contributions from early-career scholars and more established researchers, the Handbook provides global and interdisciplinary perspectives on the political nature, significance and consequence of heritage and the various practices of management and interpretation. Taking a broad view of heritage, which includes not just tangible and intangible phenomena, but the ways in which people and societies live with, embody, experience, value and use the past, the volume provides a critical survey of political tensions over heritage in diverse social and cultural contexts. Chapters within the book consider topics such as: neoliberal dynamics; terror and mobilisations of fear and hatred; old and new nationalisms; public policy; recognition; denials; migration and refugeeism; crises; colonial and decolonial practice; communities; self-and personhood; as well as international relations, geopolitics, soft power and cooperation to address global problems.
The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource. It is essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, museum studies, politics, memory studies, public history, geography, urban studies and tourism.
The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource.
PART I Introduction: 1.The Politics of Heritage; 2.We need a new way to
talk about heritage and politics; PART II Forms of reconciliation, connection
and mobilisation:
3. Heritage and/not hate;
4. The Heritage Politics of Hope;
5. Something Happened in Cowra: Comprehending the Heritage of War
Commemoration Sites and Ceremonies through Stanley Cavells Politics of
Acknowledgment;
6. From Intangible Culture Heritage to Political Symbol A
Study of Milk Tea, Emotions, and the Pan-Asian Pro-democratic Movement;
7.
The Collective Impact on Heritage: Lessons from the Beirut October Uprising;
8. Cultural Heritage and Symbolic Power in Iraqs Protest Movement; PART III
Politics from below: community, local and oppositional activism:
9. Heritage
as white public space;
10. The Politics of Heritage Instrumentalisation: A
Comparative Study of Two Indigenous Cultural Villages in Malaysia; 11.Local
Communities, Counter-Heritage, and Heritage Diversity: Experiences from
Zimbabwe;
12. Preah Vihear and the Politics of Indigenous Heritage in
Thailand;
13. An anarchist imagination for critical heritage studies:
Prefiguring equitable and sustainable futures in crofting and beyond; PART IV
Populist and authoritarian politics:
14. Are you (or could you be)
Indigenous? A Perspective from Europe;
15. Affect, Belonging and Political
Uses of the Past in a Digitally Integrated Public Sphere;
16. Trumpian
Populism and Coal mining Heritage in Northeastern Pennsylvania;
17. Heritage
and Technocracy: The Polish digital museum boom and its impact on heritage
practice;
18. Brumbies, settler-colonial heritage, and the Wild Horse
Heritage Act (2018): the politics of feral horse management in Australia;
19.
Fading Memory and Inexistent Past: the concealed heritage of Stalins mass
repression; PART V Reconfiguring and unsettling heritage symbols:
20. Making
Worlds of the Past: the interdependency of heritage representation and
geopolitical entities;
21. Queering National Heritage Myths;
22. Must Gandhi
also Fall? Reassembling #BlackLivesMatters Translocal Activism and Urban
Fallist Movements;
23. Am I doing it well enough?: Roma, racialised
heritage, and politics of (self-) representation in postsocialist Bulgaria;
24. Changing Approaches to Turkeys Byzantine Heritage: The Contexts of the
10th and the 24th International Congresses of Byzantine Studies; PART VI
Heritage and the negotiation of place:
25. The Heritage Politics of One Mans
Living Room;
26. Dont tell us were not Cuban! How political nostalgia
makes Miami and Miami makes nostalgia political;
27. Nation-space and the
transtemporal woodlands: The politics of the past in the heritagised
narratives on forests in 21st century Finland;
28. Representations and
resignification of a public monument;
29. Searching for brave spaces through
decolonial heritage activism; PART VII The politics of urban transformation:
30. The Gentrification of Working-Class Heritage in Lowell, Massachusetts;
31. Neoliberal times and urban heritage: sustainable preservation in the
Monumenta Program in Brazil;
32. Space, Politics, Heritage: Engaging in a
Political Geography of Heritagisation;
33. A Four-Hundred-Metre Walk: or how
political choices may or may not transform a post-industrial landscape into a
highly valuable social and ecological fabric;
34. The Battle for Belgrades
Historic Riverfront: Citizen Resistance to Radical Urban Changes;
35.
Building a new world in the shell of the old. Historic building squats and
heritage commons. The case of Rosa Nera at Chania, Crete; PART VIII Heritage
Policy, UNESCO and resistance:
36. Saving the World: Heritage Politics at
UNESCO;
37. Dance, Moving Identities, and The Political Economy of Intangible
Cultural Heritage;
38. Diplomatic heritage: The involvement of the World
Monuments Fund in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cuzco, Peru;
39. Indigenous
peoples heritage and democratisation processes: from monumentalisation to
participation in Peruvian cultural policy;
40. The Politics of Space
Heritage: Colonising and Exploiting the Final Frontier; Index.
Gönül Bozolu is a lecturer in museum and heritage studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Gary Campbell is an Australian-based independent researcher with a primary research interest in industrial heritage, deindustrialization and the politics of memory and nostalgia.
Laurajane Smith is the director of the Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University.
Christopher Whitehead is a professor of museology and dean of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, UK.
