ABSTRACT
Chapter 12 develops the argument that heritage is implicated in the politics of recognition (defined in Chapter 2). The interrelationship between heritage and identity intersects with struggles over recognition and redistribution, and heritage is understood as a resource of power and justification in such struggles. The chapter outlines how different approaches or claims to recognition are played out at museums/heritage sites. In particular, the idea of ‘self-recognition’, as either the inheritor of privilege or inequity, is argued to be foundational to the initiation and negotiation of claims and counterclaims for recognition and redistribution.
