
The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics
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- English
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The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics
About this book
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 the 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Part I: Introduction
- Part II: Forms of reconciliation, connection, and mobilisation
- Part III: Politics from below: community, local, and oppositional activism
- Part IV: Populist and authoritarian politics
- Part V: Reconfiguring and unsettling heritage symbols
- Part VI: Heritage and the negotiation of place
- Part VII: The politics of urban transformation
- Part VIII: Heritage policy, UNESCO and resistance
- Index