Politics of Scale : : New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies / / ed. by Yujie Zhu, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Suzie Thomas.

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Explorations in Heritage Studies ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Figures and Tables --
Foreword --
Introduction. Heritage and Scale --
PART I. SCALED CONCEPTUALIZATION OF HERITAGE --
Chapter 1. Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China --
Chapter 2. The ‘European Significance’ of Heritage: Politics of Scale in EU Heritage Policy Discourse --
Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures --
PART II. SCALE IN HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES --
Chapter 4. Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor --
Chapter 5. The Politics of Border Heritage: EU’s Cross-Border Cooperation as Scalar Politics in the Spanish-Portuguese Border --
Chapter 6. Broadening the Scope of Heritage: The Concept of Cultural Environment and Scalar Relations in Finnish Cultural Environment Policy --
PART III. SCALE IN HERITAGE PRACTICES --
Chapter 7. Locals, Incomers, Tourists and Gold Diggers: Space, Politics and the ‘Dark Heritage’ Legacy of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland --
Chapter 8. Becoming Mediterranean: Th e Intangible Cultural Heritage of Klapa Singing in Identity-Building and Nation-Branding Discourses --
Chapter 9. Tuning in to Radio Heritage in Newfoundland --
Afterword. The Politics of Scale for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Identification, Ownership and Representation --
Index
Summary:Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781789200171
9783110997729
DOI:10.1515/9781789200171?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Yujie Zhu, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Suzie Thomas.