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Vientiane
Transformations of a Lao landscape
Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao...
Published July 30th 2010 by Routledge
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Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights
Intersections in Theory and Practice
Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights. It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity,...
Published November 29th 2009 by Routledge
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Places of Pain and Shame
Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'
Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community’s history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases...
Published December 3rd 2008 by Routledge