Politics of Scale: New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies

by Tuuli Lähdesmäki (Editor), Suzie Thomas (Editor), Yujie Zhu (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789200171
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/02/2019
Series:	Explorations in Heritage Studies , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	190
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Tuuli Lähdesmäki is Associate Professor of Art History at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Lähdesmäki specializes in heritage, culture, and identity politics particularly in the context of the European Union.

Suzie Thomas is Professor of Heritage Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Yujie Zhu is Associate Professor at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword
David C. Harvey and Ali Mozaffari

Introduction: Heritage and Scale
Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Yujie Zhu and Suzie Thomas

PART I: SCALED CONCEPTUALIZATION OF HERITAGE

Chapter 1. Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China
Yujie Zhu

Chapter 2. The ‘European Significance’ of Heritage: Politics of Scale in EU Heritage Policy Discourse
Tuuli Lähdesmäki and Katja Mäkinen

Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures
Rhiannon Bettivia and Elizabeth Stainforth

PART II: SCALE IN HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES

Chapter 4. Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor
Rowena Butland

Chapter 5. The Politics of Border Heritage: EU’s Cross-Border Cooperation as Scalar Politics in the Spanish-Portuguese Border
María Lois

Chapter 6. Broadening the Scope of Heritage: The Concept of Cultural Environment and Scalar Relations in Finnish Cultural
Environment Policy
Satu Kähkönen and Tuuli Lähdesmäki

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
Suzie Thomas

Chapter 8. Becoming Mediterranean: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Klapa Singing in Identity-Building and Nation-Branding
Discourses
Eni Buljubašić and Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Chapter 9. Tuning in to Radio Heritage in Newfoundland
Michael Windover and Hilary Grant

Afterword: The Politics of Scale for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Identification, Ownership and Representation
Kristin Kuutma
Index

Editorial Reviews

“…the book is a magnificent contribution to the field of critical heritage and a must read for those interested in the subject matter.”  • Archäologische Informationen

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