Full Description
Resilience as Heritage in Asia analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communities in Asia (Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand). Persistent resistance to communal erasure taking place through repressive policies and commercialized, multinational urban development insensitive to local communities and values often presents an uphill battle. Some of these collective efforts to survive through persistent everyday actions, encounters, and constant struggles have successful outcomes, while others are ephemeral at best. The authors argue that persisting vernacular spaces located between resistance and co-optation are themselves a form of local cultural heritage in the rapidly urbanizing region. Recognizing these nonconformist forms of resilience as heritage acknowledges the creativity involved in challenging social and political inequalities. Supporting the cultural autonomy of local communities by acknowledging resilience as heritage contributes to social justice in the region.
Contents
Chapter 1: Vernacular Heritage, Vernacular Resilience: Introducing Asian Experiences and Perspectives - Michael Herzfeld and Rita Padawangi
Chapter 2: When Resilience Becomes Tangible: The Social and Political Challenges to Local Self-Expression in Thailand and Elsewhere - Michael Herzfeld
Chapter 3: Social Resilience of the Vernacular Cosmopolitan Heritage of Melaka - Kim Nørgaard Helmersen
Chapter 4: "Like the Story of the Camel and His Master!": A Melakan Village between Vernacular Heritage and Urban Transformation - Pierpaolo De Giosa
Chapter 5: Heritage and a Community of Belonging in Singapore - Steve Ferzacca
Chapter 6: The Liberation of Individual Cultural Vernacularity: Emancipating Citizens' Subjectivity through Art - Motohiro Koizumi
Chapter 7: Making it Back Home: Displacement and Strategies of Resilience through Art - Tessa Maria Guazon
Chapter 8: Muddied Memories as Vernacular Heritage of an Unnatural Disaster - Anton Novenanto and I Wayan Suyadnya
Chapter 9: Threatened Flood-Prone Alleyway Neighbourhoods of Ho Chi Minh City: What "Tactics" for Vernacular Heritage? - Marie Gibert-Flutre
