Whose Heritage? : : challenging race and identity in Stuart Hall's post-nation Britain / / edited by Susan L. T. Ashley, Degna Stone.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ashley, Susan L. T. ,; Degna Stone,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages)

"This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is 'heritage' in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan 'post-nation'. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work of public intellectual Stuart Hall (1932-2014). Hall was instrumental in calling out embedded elitist conceptions of 'The Heritage' of Britain. The book's authors challenge us to reconsider what is valued about Britain's past, its culture and its citizens. Populist discourses around the world, including Brexit and 'culture war' declarations in the UK, demonstrate how heritage and ideas of the past are mobilised in racist politics. The multidisciplinary chapters of this book offer critical inspections of these politics, and dig deeply into the problems of theory, policy and practice in today's academia, society and heritage sector. The volume challenges the lack of action since Hall rebuked 'The Heritage' twenty years ago. The authors featured here are predominantly Black Britons, academics and practitioners engaged in culture and heritage, spurred by the killing of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement to contest racist practices and structures that support them. This fact alone makes the volume a unique addition to the Routledge Museum & Heritage Studies repertoire. The primary audience will be academics, but it will also attract culture sector practitioners and heritage institutions. However, the book is particularly aimed at scholars and community members who identify as Black, who are centrally concerned with questions of identity and race in British society. Its Open Access status will facilitate access to the book by all groups in society"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : on Stuart Hall and the imagining of heritage / Susan Ashley and Degna Stone -- Whose heritage? Un-settling 'the heritage' re-imagining the post-nation / Stuart Hall -- 'The way in which we learn to sing' : the heritage of ideas behind 'whose heritage?' / Matt Martin -- Race equality in the cultural heritage sector : perceptions of progress over the last twenty years and actions for the next decade / Clara Arokiasamy -- Mothers milk or regurgitated fish? : Resisting nostalgia and embracing dissension in British heritage / Don P. O'Meara -- Beyond our system of objects : heritage collecting, hoarding and ephemeral objects / Errol Francis -- Historical methods implicated in the making of 'the heritage' / Leonie Wieser -- Whose heritage? Deconstructing and reconstructing counter narratives in heritage / Sandra Shakespeare, Qanitah Malik And Edinam Edem-Jordjie -- In the shadow of Stuart Hall / Dawn Walton -- The Black British presence on television in Barrie Keeffe's Play for today (BBC1) dramas and beyond / Tom May -- Narrative cannibals : who speaks for whom? Heritage, documentary practice and the strategies of power / Tina Gharavi -- Searching for new perspectives on heritage : the Transatlantic trade in Enslaved Africans / Beverley Prevatt Goldstein -- Brand new, second hand : production, preservation and 'new' diasporic forms / Etienne Joseph -- Crisis of authority : Rebuilding the heritage narrative in Stuart Hall's post-nation state / Rosie Lewis -- The power to represent / Degna Stone.