Multivocality in World Heritage - Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, Norway

This book examines multivocality in 21st-century World Heritage management through an in-depth interdisciplinary exploration of the complexity and plurality of voices on the ground at a specific World Heritage site. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of heritage.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Challenges of Multivocality, 2. Fertilising Heritage: Multivocality, Memory Politics, and Semiotic Control in a World Heritage Site, 3. Multivocal Negotiations: Developers, Bureaucracy and Affordances of a Heritage Building, 4. Awestruck: Multivocality and Place-based Learning in a World Heritage Setting, 5. Rallar Voices: Marginality and Intertextuality in Navvy Songs from Rjukan and Notodden, 6. Silver Reflections: Entangled Experiences of Silver, People and Land, 7. Multivocality of Space in Heavy Water Tourism, 8. Photo Essay: Lines through Time, 9. Water as a Zone of Conflicting Interests, 10. Towards a Geological Heritage, 11. The Multivocality of Rjukanfossen: What is to be Sustained in World Heritage, 12. Concluding Thoughts in a Dialogic Mode

About the author

Inger Birkeland is Professor of Human Geography at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN).
Steffen F. Johannessen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN).
Guro Nordby (Ph.D.) is employed as a researcher at the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Norway.
Benjamin Richards (Ph.D.) is employed at Hardanger and Voss Museum, Norway.

Product details

• Authors: Inger (University College of Southeast Birkeland
• Assisted by: Birkeland Inger (Editor), Steffen F. Johannessen (Editor), Guro Nordby (Editor), Benjamin Richards (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032804170
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3280417-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Telemark, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Humanities, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, Retail and wholesale industries