Full Description
Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry explores what happens to the heritage and memory of communities that find themselves in contact with the rest of the world when they become UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Written by an interdisciplinary group of emerging scholars and heritage professionals connected to these sites through their own heritage, this volume considers how a community can engage with a site's globalized importance while retaining its own sense of history. Drawing on oral histories, ethnographic methods, film, interviews, and archival research, the book adds to the discourse around Critical Heritage Studies. It does so by putting theories into practice in selected heritage sites in Romania, the UAE/India, Eritrea, China, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Malaysia. The book also contributes toward the dismantlement of the many dichotomies imposed on heritage from the divisions between natural and cultural, or tangible and intangible in the UNESCO Conventions and Eurocentric heritage practices. Looking toward the future of the past, the volume asks whether heritage can be objectively or equitably managed, as it increasingly comes into conflict with issues around nation‑building, climate change, social class, ethnicity, religion, and gender.
Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry will be of great interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, sociology, public history, history, international studies, sociology, and anthropology.
Contents
Introduction. (Re)Emerging Pasts: Cultural Heritage Beyond UNESCO World Heritage Site Definitions; 1. Jingdezhen's Imperial Kiln Archaeological Park as "The Last Home of the Ancient Potters" and Negotiations of Ownership and Belonging by the Contemporary Migrant Artist Community; 2. Where Would I Walk to Decolonize Myself? Film and Heritage between Eritrea and Italy; 3. Endangering Multiculturalism: UNESCO's Impact on Street Food Heritage in George Town, Malaysia; 4. A Future Beyond the Monuments: Social and Climate Changes on the Island of Mozambique; 5. The Golden Hill: Who owns Roșia Montană?; 6. Who Owns the Right to Tell a Story? A Study of Occupational Sex Desegregation of Tour Guiding in Zanzibar; 7. Building Boats and Heritage: Understanding Shipbuilding Knowledge and Techniques in the Western Indian Ocean
