ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role cultural heritage can play in nation building and addresses how cultural heritage can be used to lay claim over territory and place and be contained within historic narratives of victimisation or marginalisation. Cultural heritage is then a significant variable in the continual renegotiation of identity and ethnicity within the context of nationalism and nation building. Landscape and the built environment can be reimagined to reflect political and social ideologies, with architecture and landscape design used mediums to convey political messaging and belief systems while cultural heritage sites, centres and museums play an active role in the conveying projected images and promoting the targeted messaging of nationhood.
