The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics

The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource.

PART I Introduction: 1.The Politics of Heritage; 2.We need a new way to talk about heritage and politics; PART II Forms of reconciliation, connection and mobilisation: 3. Heritage and/not hate; 4. The Heritage Politics of Hope; 5. Something Happened in Cowra: Comprehending the Heritage of War Commemoration Sites and Ceremonies through Stanley Cavell's 'Politics of Acknowledgment'; 6. From Intangible Culture Heritage to Political Symbol - A Study of Milk Tea, Emotions, and the Pan-Asian Pro-democratic Movement; 7. The Collective Impact on Heritage: Lessons from the Beirut October Uprising; 8. Cultural Heritage and Symbolic Power in Iraq's Protest Movement; PART III Politics from below: community, local and oppositional activism: 9. Heritage as white public space; 10. The Politics of Heritage Instrumentalisation: A Comparative Study of Two Indigenous Cultural Villages in Malaysia; 11.Local Communities, Counter-Heritage, and Heritage Diversity: Experiences from Zimbabwe; 12. Preah Vihear and the Politics of Indigenous Heritage in Thailand; 13. An anarchist imagination for critical heritage studies: Prefiguring equitable and sustainable futures in crofting and beyond; PART IV Populist and authoritarian politics: 14. 'Are you (or could you be) Indigenous?' A Perspective from Europe; 15. Affect, Belonging and Political Uses of the Past in a Digitally Integrated Public Sphere; 16. Trumpian Populism and Coal mining Heritage in Northeastern Pennsylvania; 17. Heritage and Technocracy: The Polish "digital museum boom" and its impact on heritage practice; 18. Brumbies, settler-colonial heritage, and the Wild Horse Heritage Act (2018): the politics of feral horse management in Australia; 19. Fading Memory and Inexistent Past: the concealed heritage of Stalin's mass repression; PART V Reconfiguring and unsettling heritage symbols: 20. Making Worlds of the Past: the interdependency of heritage representation and geopolitical entities; 21. Queering National Heritage Myths; 22. Must Gandhi also Fall? Reassembling #BlackLivesMatter's Translocal Activism and Urban Fallist Movements; 23. 'Am I doing it well enough?': Roma, racialised heritage, and politics of (self-) representation in postsocialist Bulgaria; 24. Changing Approaches to Turkey's Byzantine Heritage: The Contexts of the 10th and the 24th International Congresses of Byzantine Studies; PART VI Heritage and the negotiation of place: 25. The Heritage Politics of One Man's Living Room; 26. "Don't tell us we're not Cuban!" How political nostalgia makes Miami and Miami makes nostalgia political; 27. Nation-space and the transtemporal woodlands: The politics of the past in the heritagised narratives on forests in 21st century Finland; 28. Representations and resignification of a public monument; 29. Searching for brave spaces through decolonial heritage activism; PART VII The politics of urban transformation: 30. The Gentrification of Working-Class Heritage in Lowell, Massachusetts; 31. Neoliberal times and urban heritage: sustainable preservation in the Monumenta Program in Brazil; 32. Space, Politics, Heritage: Engaging in a Political Geography of Heritagisation; 33. A Four-Hundred-Metre Walk: or how political choices may or may not transform a post-industrial landscape into a highly valuable social and ecological fabric; 34. The Battle for Belgrade's Historic Riverfront: Citizen Resistance to Radical Urban Changes; 35. 'Building a new world in the shell of the old'. Historic building squats and heritage commons. The case of Rosa Nera at Chania, Crete; PART VIII Heritage Policy, UNESCO and resistance: 36. Saving the World: Heritage Politics at UNESCO; 37. Dance, Moving Identities, and The Political Economy of Intangible Cultural Heritage; 38. Diplomatic heritage: The involvement of the World Monuments Fund in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cuzco, Peru; 39. Indigenous peoples heritage and democratisation processes: from monumentalisation to participation in Peruvian cultural policy; 40. The Politics of Space Heritage: Colonising and Exploiting the Final Frontier; Index.