ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|26 pages
Introduction
part II|68 pages
Forms of reconciliation, connection, and mobilisation
chapter 5|17 pages
37Something happened in Cowra
chapter 6|17 pages
From intangible culture heritage to political symbol
part III|75 pages
Politics from below: community, local, and oppositional activism
chapter 10|16 pages
The politics of heritage instrumentalisation
chapter 11|19 pages
Local communities, counter-heritage, and heritage diversity
chapter 13|17 pages
An anarchist imagination for critical heritage studies
part IV|95 pages
Populist and authoritarian politics
chapter 17|18 pages
Heritage and technocracy
chapter 18|15 pages
Brumbies, settler-colonial heritage and anxieties of belonging
chapter 19|18 pages
Fading memory and the inexistent past
part V|78 pages
Reconfiguring and unsettling heritage symbols
chapter 20|6 pages
Making worlds of the past
chapter 23|17 pages
‘Am I doing it well enough?’
chapter 24|19 pages
Changing approaches to Turkey's Byzantine heritage
part VI|65 pages
Heritage and the negotiation of place
chapter 26|12 pages
“Don't tell us we're not Cuban!”
chapter 27|18 pages
Nation-space and the transtemporal woodlands
chapter 28|18 pages
Representations and resignification of a public monument
part VII|117 pages
The politics of urban transformation
chapter 31|16 pages
Neoliberal times and urban heritage
chapter 33|21 pages
A four-hundred-metre walk
chapter 34|16 pages
The battle for Belgrade's historic riverfront
chapter 35|23 pages
‘Building a new world in the shell of the old’
part VIII|77 pages
Heritage Policy, UNESCO and resistance