ABSTRACT
This introduction brings together the examinations led by the authors in this part of the volume to discuss how the law relates to heritage through conflicts and how it enables stakeholders through different forms of authority. It underlines the mechanisms that convert heritage into power and gives an overview of how these mechanisms are embodied in various heritage practices. It also comes back to the question about how heritage could change the law (in return for the law changing heritage) and opens a discussion on the means of acting on heritage as a form of empowerment. It then goes on to present briefly each of the ten chapters of this part.
