Full Description
This collection brings together leading writers and thinkers to examine the ways in which ingrained assumptions about heritage are being challenged today. It explores key questions that surround heritage as a pressing political issue: what happens when the concept of culture is uncoupled from the nation? What meanings does heritage have in the context of the new societies and within the so-called new "politics of difference"? How does history become heritage? What history should we preserve as heritage? The contributors draw upon visual, literary and documentary evidence to examine heritage's contested histories. The result is an anthology of critical writing which should be indispensable reading for those with an interest in cultural history, politics and European studies.
Contents
Introduction: The Politics of Heritage and Public Culture
Robert Shannan Peckham
Part 1: Heritage and the Politics of Difference
1 Representing Empire at the National Maritime Museum
James Duncan
2 The Crusader Heritage: Portugal and Islam from Colonial to Post-colonial Identities
Abdool Karim Vakil
3 The Translation of Heritage: Multiculturalism in the 'New'Europe
Stephanos Stephanides
Part II: Heritage and European Identities
4 A European Cultural Heritage? Reflections on a Concept and a Programme
Peter Bugge
5 European Identity and the Heritage of National Cultures
Thomas Risse
6 The Chansonde Roland andt he Invention of France
Simon Gaunt
7 Contested Heritage and Identity Politics: The Industrial Museum of Schleswig
Thorkild Kjærgaard
Part III: Placing Heritage
1 Heritage and History: A Venetian Geography Lesson
Denis Cosgrove
2 The Heritage of the Bismarck National Monument in the Weave of Historicity
Karen Lang
3 'Teutonic' Landscape Heritage: The Search for National Identity in Early-twentieth-century German Landscape Design
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
4 A Garden of Returns: Bernard Lassus and the Historical Composition of Place
Stephen Bann
Part IV: The Disinheritance of Heritage
5 The Museum of What You Shall Have Been
Donald Preziosi
6 Heritage and Inheritors: The Literary Canon in Totalitarian Bulgaria
Alexander Kiossev
7 Disinheritance Politics: Spatializing Abject Histories of World War IIS weden
Michael Landzelius
8 Mourning Heritage: Memory, Trauma and Restitution
Robert Shannan Peckham
