Cultural Heritage Politics in China

Cultural Heritage Politics in China

Author: Tami Blumenfield

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1461468744

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​This volume explores China’s cultural heritage ideology and policies from three interrelated perspectives: the State and World Heritage tourism; cultural heritage tourism at undesignated sites, and the cultural politics of museums and collections. Something of a cultural heritage designation craze is happening in China. This is new within even the last five to ten years. Officials at many levels now see heritage preservation as a means for commoditizing their regions. They are devoting new resources and attention to national and international heritage designations. Thus, addressing cultural heritage politics in a nation dedicated to designation is an important project, particularly in the context of a rapidly growing economy. This volume is also important because it addresses a very wide range of cultural heritage, providing an excellent sample of case studies: historic vernacular urban environments, ethnic tourism, scenic tourism, pilgrimage as tourism, tourism and economic development, museums, border heritage, underwater remains, and the actual governance and management of the sites. This volume is an outstanding introduction to cultural heritage issues in China while contributing to Chinese studies for those with greater knowledge of the area.


The Politics of World Heritage

The Politics of World Heritage

Author: David Harrison

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781845410094

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This collection of papers discuss World Trade Law and focus on the contested nature of World Heritage at sites as diverse as The Netherlands, Ellis Island (USA), post-colonial Mesoamerica, Cambodia, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. In addition, eight research notes explore heritage interpretation in the USA, Lebanon, Peru, Indonesia, Singapore, Tasmania and India.


Politics of Scale

Politics of Scale

Author: Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-01-02

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1789200172

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Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.


World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melakka, Malaysia

World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melakka, Malaysia

Author: Pierpaolo De Giosa

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9789463725026

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This book presents a tale of heritage politics in the Malaysian historical city par excellence. Already celebrated as the first Malay sultanate and an important colonial trading port, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List 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 heritage has become a tumultuous issue on the ground in Melaka. World Heritage and Urban Politics in Malaysia analyses how the World Heritage 'label' is being used by different actors- such as international organizations, nation states, and society at large- to generate new economic revenues and to attract investment for large-scale real estate development projects. In doing so, it reveals the complex and often contradictory stories behind heritage designations in urban milieus.


The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali

The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali

Author: Charlotte L Joy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1315417529

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This critical investigation highlights the politics of cultural heritage management, including authenticity and conservation, and its effects on the everyday lives of the peoples it claim to be representing through the example of Djenné in Mali.


The Politics of Heritage in Africa

The Politics of Heritage in Africa

Author: Derek R. Peterson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-03-02

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1107094852

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This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency.


Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony

Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony

Author: Daniel Herwitz

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0231530722

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The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of heritage, Daniel Herwitz reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked. In this absorbing book, he travels to South Africa and unpacks its controversial and robust confrontations with the colonial and apartheid past. He visits India and reads in its modern art the gesture of a newly minted heritage idealizing the precolonial world as the source of Indian modernity. He traverses the United States and finds in its heritage of incessant invention, small town exceptionalism, and settler destiny a key to contemporary American media-driven politics. Showing how destabilizing, ambivalent, and potentially dangerous heritage is as a producer of contemporary social, aesthetic, and political realities, Herwitz captures its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change.


The Politics of Memory

The Politics of Memory

Author: Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781538148136

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This book explores how a site can turn into a mummification of the past, displaying long-gone splendour, or a living, breathing treasure offering dynamic cultural and educational opportunities.


A Future in Ruins

A Future in Ruins

Author: Lynn Meskell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0190648341

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Utopia -- Internationalism -- Technocracy -- Conservation -- Inscription -- Conflict -- Danger -- Dystopia


Understanding the Politics of Heritage

Understanding the Politics of Heritage

Author: Rodney Harrison

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780719081521

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Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text presents an engaging narrative of the way politics features in heritage conservation and management. New international case studies illustrate how notions of identity, social class and nationhood may be woven into the provision of official heritage, and how heritage may be seen to be less about upholding truth or authenticity and more about delivering political objectives. Aimed primarily at students in heritage studies and professionals in heritage industries, this is book three of three in the Understanding Global Heritage series.