Cultures and Globalization : Heritage, Memory and Identity

by Helmut K Anheier

• ISBN13: 9780857023902
• ISBN10: 085702390X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-19
• 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.

Author Biography

Helmut Anheier is Dean of the Hertie School of Governance and holds a chair of Sociology at Heidelberg University. From 2001 to 2009 he was Professor of Public Policy at UCLA's School of Public Affairs and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Yudhishthir Raj Isar is Jean Monnet Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American University of Paris. He is a former President of Culture Action Europe.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Contributors	p. xv
List of boxes, figures, photos and tables	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
Configurations of Heritage, Memory, Identity	p. 21
Global Approaches	p. 23
The Role of Narratives in Commemoration: Remembering as Mediated Action	p. 25
UNESCO and Heritage: Global Doctrine, Global Practice	p. 39
Destruction and Reconstruction of Heritage: Impacts on Memory and Identity	p. 53
The Political Economies of Heritage	p. 70
Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora	p. 82
Territorialization and the Politics of Autochthony	p. 95
Grassroots Memorials as Sites of Heritage Creation	p. 106
Sites of Conscience: Heritage of and for Human Rights	p. 114
'Not Just a Place': Culture Heritage and the Environment	p. 124
Regional Realities	p. 137
Living Sacred Heritage and 'Authenticity' in South Asia	p. 139
A Contested Site of Memory: The Preah Vihear Temple	p. 148
Memory and Identity as Elements of Heritage Tourism in Southern Africa	p. 157
Multiple Heritages, Multiple Identities: The Southwest Indian Ocean	p. 169
Remembering and Forgetting Communist Cultural Production	p. 177
Post-socialist Recollections: Identity and Memory in Former Yugoslavia	p. 187
Contemporary Creativity and Heritage in Latin America	p. 199
Fields and Issues	p. 211
The Manipulation of Memory and Heritage in Museums of Migration	p. 213
Heritage, Memory, Debris: Sulukule, Don't Forget	p. 222
Knowing the City: Migrants Negotiating Materialities in Istanbul	p. 231
Divided Memories, Contested Histories: The Shifting Landscape in Japan	p. 239
Memorialization and the Rwandan Genocide: The Use of Theatre	p. 245
Narrating Shared Identity	p. 252
Listening Voices: On Actualizing Memories	p. 262
Commentaries	p. 271
Intangibles: Culture, Heritage and Identity	p. 273
From the Tower of Babel to the Ivory Tower	p. 281
Indicator Suites	p. 285
Indicator Suites for Heritage, Memory, Identity	p. 287
Heritage	p. 297
World Heritage Sites	p. 298
Legal and Political Frameworks	p. 304
Museums	p. 310
Intangible Heritage	p. 314
Tourism	p. 318
Sustainability	p. 322
Memory	p. 331
Memoralization	p. 332
Contested memories	p. 336
Global Collective Memories	p. 340
Places	p. 346
Media	p. 350
Migration and Diaspora	p. 354
Education	p. 358
Identity	p. 363
Geographical identities	p. 364
Internet Identities	p. 370
Multiple Citizenship and Naturalization	p. 374
Popular Culture	p. 378
Identities in the Economy	p. 382
Religion	p. 386
References & Source Materials	p. 392
Index	p. 409
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