Full Description
'This volume of one of the most comprehensive in the field. Its three themes are critical for the study of culture and globalization with its condensation of space, time and memory. Exploring the intersection between these three processes, the essays are learned, deeply researched and insightful, and the comparative range is impressive. The volume is certain to become a standard reference text for scholars and the general reader alike' - Professor Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, The Open University
Heritage, memory and identity are closely connected keywords of our time, each endowed with considerable rhetorical power. Different human groups define certain objects and practices as 'heritage'; they envision heritage to reflect some form of collective memory, either lived or imagined; and they combine both to construct cultural identities. Today, the three terms raise conjoined issues of practice, policy and politics in an increasingly globalized world.
Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of contestation, and human rights.
Contents
Foreword - Pierre Nora
Introduction - Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Dacia Viejo-Rose and Helmut K. Anheier
PART ONE: CONFIGURATIONS OF HERITAGE, MEMORY, IDENTITY
GLOBAL APPROACHES
The Role of Narratives in Commemoration: Remembering as Mediated Action - James V. Wertsch and Doc M. Billingsley
UNESCO and Heritage: Global Doctrine, Global Practice - Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Destruction and Reconstruction of Heritage: Impacts on Memory and Identity - Dacia Viejo-Rose
The Political Economies of Heritage - Tim Winter
Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora - Ien Ang
Territorialization and the Politics of Autochthony - Jean-Pierre Warnier
Grassroots Memorials as Sites of Heritage Creation - Cristina Sánchez-Carretero and Carmen Ortiz
Sites of Conscience: Heritage of and for Human Rights - Liz Šev?enko
'Not Just a Place': Culture Heritage and the Environment - Benjamin Morris
Regional Realities
Living Sacred Heritage and 'Authenticity' in South Asia - Jagath Weerasinghe
A Contested Site of Memory: The Preah Vihear Temple - Aurel Croissant and Paul W. Chambers
Memory and Identity as Elements of Heritage Tourism in Southern Africa - Susan Keitumetse, Laura McAtackney and Gobopaone Senata
Multiple Heritages, Multiple Identities: The Southwest Indian Ocean - Rosabelle Boswell
Remembering and Forgetting Communist Cultural Production - Dragan Klaic
Post-socialist Recollections: Identity and Memory in Former Yugoslavia - Zala Volcic
Contemporary Creativity and Heritage in Latin America - Lucina Jiménez López
Fields and Issues
The Manipulation of Memory and Heritage in Museums of Migration - Julie Thomas
Heritage, Memory, Debris: Sulukule, Don't Forget - Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins
Knowing the City: Migrants Negotiating Materialities in Istanbul - Yael Navaro-Yashin
Divided Memories, Contested Histories: The Shifting Landscape in Japan - Akiko Hashimoto
Memorialization and the Rwandan Genocide: The Use of Theatre - Ananda Breed
Narrating Shared Identity - Brian Schiff, Carolina Porto de Andrade and Mathilde Toulemonde
Listening Voices: On Actualizing Memories - Esther Shalev-Gerz
Commentaries
Intangibles: Culture, Heritage and Identity - Henrietta L. Moore
From the Tower of Babel to the Ivory Tower - David Lowenthal
PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES
