1st Edition
Heritage and Identity Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World
Part 1: Place and Identity 1. What role can digital heritage play in the re--imagining of national identities? England and its Icons, Rhiannon Mason and Zelda Baveystock 2. Locating art: the display and construction of place identity in art galleries, Chris Whitehead 3. Place, local distinctiveness and local identity: ecomuseum approaches in Europe and Asia, Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis and Donatella Murtas 4. Representing identities at local municipal museums: cultural forums or identity bunkers? Marta Anico 5. Heritage according to scale, Llorenç Prats Part 2: Remembering and Forgetting 6.Unsettling memories: intervention and controversy over difficult public heritage, Sharon Macdonald 7. Public silences, private voices: memory games in a maritime heritage complex, Elsa Peralta 8. The banalization and the contestation of memory in postcommunist Poland, Barbara Misztal 9. A landscape of memories: layers of meaning in a Dublin park, Kate Moles Part 3: Domination and Contestation 10. Labor and leisure at Monticello: or repr.esenting race instead of class at an inadvertent white identity shrine, Eric Gable 11. The ancient city walls of Great Benin: colonialism, urban heritage and cultural identity in contemporary Nigeria, Flora Kaplan 12. The past in the present: towards a politics of care at the National Trust of Australia –WA, Andrea Witcomb 13. Yoruba identity and western museums: ethnic pride and artistic representations, Anna Catalini
Biography
Marta Anico, Elsa Peralta
