Full Description
Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the 'work' of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the reductive economies of colonial capitalism.
In a global context of cultural financialisation and ecological crisis, where sustainable, anti-colonial and creative approaches are required to solve urgent problems, this volume provides readers with an enriched understanding of heritage as a transforming and multidisciplinary domain, which continues to question what is valued, discarded or shared with future generations. Bringing together researchers from the academy and industry, and from varied international contexts, this volume asks how does 'heritage' - as a complex intersection of contemporary practices with their own diverse histories - recognise and circulate cultural value between generations and communities? This volume brings together critical and creative perspectives from 29 authors, showcasing diverse, coexisting heritage economies across six continents that offer new horizons for cultural inheritance. It also platforms perspectives from professional and grassroots community-based heritage practitioners, which may be of interest to non-academic readers from not-for-profit and public sectors.
Readers of Alternative Economies of Heritage may include students and scholars of heritage and museum studies, contemporary art, urbanism, environmental humanities, archaeology, anthropology, digital humanities and Indigenous studies, among other disciplines.
Contents
1. Transformative Heritage Economies: Reimagining Cultural Value, Exchange and Inheritance; Part 1 - Transforming Heritage Subjects; 2. Ancestors, Not Objects; 3. The Currency of Heritage Citizenship in Urban Indonesia; 4. Pencilled Calculations; 5. Connecting our Stories: Writing an Indigenous Studies Textbook; 6. Re-imagining heritage economies at Cape Town's Adderley Street flower market; 7. Valuing Personal Narratives as Common Heritage: Memory Practices of Museum of the Person; Part 2 - Rethinking Heritage Resources; 8. It's the Economy, Stupid! Connecting Heritage Value, Economics and the Everyday; 9. Making Heritage through Seed Stories; 10. Refiguring Digitization: Experiments in Heritage for a Shared Future; 11. Heritage Entrepreneurship: Empowering the 'Forgotten Generation'; 12. Nurturing Heritage in Community Gardens: Cultivating Tastes for the Future; 13. The Value of Post-apartheid Archives: Heritage Economies of South African Archives in the Wake of apartheid; Part 3 - Processes of Possibility; 14. Do-It-Yourself Heritage: Collective vacant house renovation in Japan; 15. Taxila's Cultural Legacy: Transactions between Ancient Civilizations and Modern Communities in a Gandhara City in Pakistan; 16. Diverse Mapuche Landscapes: Co-creating Coastal and Mountain Economies of Digital Heritage; 17. Mapping community economies as a living heritage practice; 18. Thinking With Shells: Digital Culturescapes Decolonising Digital Heritage;19. Loving Work: Surviving, Gathering and Dreaming for Indigenous Futures; 20. The Economy of the Night: Fragments of Darlinghurst's Queer Heritage
