Heritage Movements in Asia

Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-634-4 (ISBN)

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Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts.

Ali Mozaffari is a Fellow of the Australian Research Council (DECRA) with the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Melbourne. Through his research, Mozaffari seeks to understand the uses of the past in contemporary discourses of heritage and built environment in Iran and West Asia. His publications include Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place (IB Tauris 2014) and World Heritage in Iran; Perspectives on Pasargadae (Routledge 2016)

List of illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Negotiation, Strategic Action and the Production of Heritage

Ali Mozaffari and Tod Jones

Chapter 1. Understanding Heritage Activism: Learning from Social Movement Studies

Tod Jones, Ali Mozaffari, and James M. Jasper

Chapter 2. ‘The Past is Always New’: A Framework for Understanding the Centrality of Social Media to Contemporary Heritage Movements

Tod Jones, Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus Salim

Chapter 3. The Exemplary Foreigner: Cultural Heritage Activism in Regional China

Gary Sigley

Chapter 4. Heritage Activism in Singapore

Terence Chong

Chapter 5. Riverscape as Biocultural Heritage: A Local Indigenous Social Movement Contests a National Park in Nepal

Sudeep Jana Thing

Chapter 6. Heritage for Whom? Caste and Contestation Among Sri Lanka’s Dumbara Rata Weavers

Aimée Douglas

Chapter 7. Heritage Activism and the Media (Framing) in Iran

Ali Mozaffari

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Heritage Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-634-7 / 1800736347
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-634-4 / 9781800736344
Zustand	Neuware