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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.
List 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 BuljubaSic 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
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.
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.
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“…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
