Making Heritage in Malaysia (eBook)

Sites, Histories, Identities

Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XXVI, 318 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-15-1494-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of 'museumising' heritage, the book then addresses a broad range of issues involving multicultural and folklore heritage, the small town, nostalgia and the environment, and transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. In so doing it delivers an intervention in received ways of talking about and 'doing' heritage in academic as well as state and public discourse in Malaysia, which are largely dominated by perspectives that do not sufficiently engage with the cultural complexities and sociopolitical implications of heritage. The book also critically explores the politics and dynamics of heritage production in Malaysia to contest 'Malaysian heritage' as a stable narrative, exploring both its cogency and contingency, and builds on a deep engagement with a non-western society in the service of 'provincialising' critical heritage studies, with the broader goal of contributing to Malaysian studies.?

Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

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This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of "e;museumising"e; heritage, the book then addresses a broad range of issues involving multicultural and folklore heritage, the small town, nostalgia and the environment, and transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. In so doing it delivers an intervention in received ways of talking about and "e;doing"e; heritage in academic as well as state and public discourse in Malaysia, which are largely dominated by perspectives that do not sufficiently engage with the cultural complexities and sociopolitical implications of heritage. The book also critically explores the politics and dynamics of heritage production in Malaysia to contest "e;Malaysian heritage"e; as a stable narrative, exploring both its cogency and contingency, and builds on a deep engagement with a non-western society in the service of "e;provincialising"e; critical heritage studies, with the broader goal of contributing to Malaysian studies.?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.2.2020
• Zusatzinfo: XXVI, 318 p. 10 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Contestation between State and Non-state Representations • Heritage and Living Practices in Malaysia • Heritage and Modern Identity • Heritage as a Cultural Process • Heritage, Globalization and Modernization • Ideological Value of Heritage • Politicised Heritage in Asia
• ISBN-10: 981-15-1494-1 / 9811514941
• ISBN-13: 978-981-15-1494-4 / 9789811514944