World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia
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World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia

A Cityscape below the Winds

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eBook - ePub

World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia

A Cityscape below the Winds

About this book

Already celebrated as a busy entrepĂ´t and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with George Town) since 2008 on the strength of its multi-ethnic and multi-religious urban fabric. Yet, contrary to the expectations of heritage experts and aficionados, the global mission of safeguarding cultural heritages has become a tumultuous issue on the ground. In World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds how the World Heritage 'label' has been, and continue to be used by different actors, such as international organizations, nation states, and society at large, to generate new economic revenues as well as to attract tourists and investments for large-scale real estate development projects is analyzed, revealing the complex and often contradictory stories behind heritage designations in urban milieus.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040787335
Topic
History
Subtopic
City Planning & Urban Development
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Starter: Into a World Heritage City
  9. Note on Language(s)
  10. 1 A Cityscape below the Winds
  11. World Heritage on the Ground
  12. On Melaka
  13. Fieldwork in and beyond Melaka
  14. Outline of the Chapters
  15. 2 Heritage Affairs: Mouse-Deer, White Elephants, and Watchdogs
  16. Antiquities: The Beginning
  17. Museumification and Replication
  18. Projects of a Developmentalist State
  19. ‘Where There Is Sugar, There Are Ants’
  20. Restructuring National Heritage
  21. Society and Heritage Affairs
  22. A Multilayered Heritage Haze
  23. 3 UNESCO and the City
  24. Tentative Steps: World Heritage Ambitions
  25. The Hybrid State of Nomination
  26. The State Party of Inscription
  27. The Negeri of Conservation
  28. Learning in the World Heritage Arena
  29. 4 Melakan Row Houses from the Ground Up
  30. Row Houses of Old Melaka: A Background
  31. Forsaken Buildings: The Post-war Period
  32. Revaluation: From RUMAH Kedai to Rumah KEDAI
  33. Housing Heritage: Some Approaches to Conservation
  34. Modellers of Conservation
  35. Mr. Chwee: A Lifelong Resident
  36. Mr. Billy: A Returnee 168
  37. Façadomy of Private World Heritage Properties
  38. The Malleability of Conservation Rules
  39. What Is the State of Conservation for the Row Houses?
  40. 5 Divide and Brand: Public Space, Politics, and Tourism
  41. ‘To Visit Historic Melaka Means to Visit Malaysia’
  42. Branding Streets in the Consociational Way
  43. From Jonker Street to Jonker Walk
  44. A Walk for Cari Makan
  45. ‘We Do Not Need a “Harmony Street” – We Are the City of Harmony!’
  46. A Political Tsunami in Jonker Street
  47. Politicized Heritage
  48. 6 A Melakan Ancestral Village beyond World Heritage
  49. The Chetti Community: A Background
  50. The Properties of the Ancestors
  51. The Making of a Kampung Warisan
  52. ‘We Are Sitting on a Gold Mine!’
  53. The Kampungscape and the High-rise
  54. ‘See You on the Thirteenth Floor!’
  55. What World Heritage Thresholds Do
  56. 7 Epilogue of a Blessing and a Curse
  57. Ethnographies of World Heritage Cities
  58. A Transnational Mis(s-)understanding
  59. World Heritage Topographies of Exclusion
  60. Postscript: Inheriting the Cityscape
  61. Bibliography
  62. Index