Cultures and Globalization : Heritage, Memory and Identity

by Helmut K Anheier

• ISBN13: 9780857023896
• ISBN10: 0857023896
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-09
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Heritage, memory and identity are closely connected keywords of our time, each endowed with considerable rhetorical power. Different human groups define certain objects and practices as 'heritage'; they envision heritage to reflect some form of collective memory, either lived or imagined; and they combine both to construct cultural identities. Today, the three terms raise conjoined issues of practice, policy and politics in an increasingly globalized world.Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of contestation, and human rights.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Configurations of Heritage, Memory, Identity

Global Approaches

The Role of Narratives in Commemoration: Remembering as Mediated Action

Unesco and Heritage: Global Doctrine, Global Practice

Destruction and Reconstruction of Heritage: Impacts on Memory and Identity

The Political Economies of Heritage

Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora

Territorialization and the Politics of Autochthony

Grassroots Memorials as Sites of Heritage Creation

Sites of Conscience: Heritage of and for Human Rights

'Not Just a Place': Culture Heritage and the Environment

Regional Realities

Living Sacred Heritage and 'Authenticity' in South Asia

a Contested Site of Memory: The Preah Vihear Temple

Memory and Identity as Elements of Heritage Tourism in Southern Africa

Multiple Heritages, Multiple Identities: The Southwest Indian Ocean

Remembering and Forgetting Communist Cultural Production

Post-socialist Recollections: Identity and Memory in Former Yugoslavia

Contemporary Creativity and Heritage in Latin America

Fields and Issues

The Manipulation of Memory and Heritage in Museums of Migration

Heritage, Memory, Debris: Sulukule, Don't Forget

Knowing the City: Migrants Negotiating Materialities in Istanbul

Divided Memories, Contested Histories: The Shifting Landscape in Japan

Memorialization and the Rwandan Genocide: The Use of Theatre

Narrating Shared Identity

Listening Voices: On Actualizing Memories

Commentaries

Intangibles: Culture, Heritage and Identity

From the Tower of Babel to the Ivory Tower

Indicator Suites

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