Heritage Books

New and Published Books

1. National Myths

   Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

   Edited by Gérard Bouchard

   National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. International Life Writing

   Memory and Identity in Global Context

   Edited by Paul Longley Arthur

   Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

   Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Asian Heritage Management

   Contexts, Concerns, and Prospects

   Edited by Kapila Silva, Neel Kamal Chapagain

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   The prevalent global heritage discourse has been primarily Euro-centric in its origin, premise, and praxis. Diverse cultural, historical, and geographical contexts, such as that of Asia, call for more context-specific approaches to heritage management. This book explores this complexity of managing...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. Heritage in the Digital Era

   Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

   By Rodanthi Tzanelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to...

   Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. East Asia Beyond the History Wars

   Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

   By Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies

   Edited by Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Landscape is a vital, synergistic concept which opens up ways of thinking about many of the problems which beset our contemporary world, such as climate change, social alienation, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and destruction of heritage. As a concept, landscape does not respect...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

   Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. New Directions in Museum Ethics

   Edited by Janet C. Marstine, Alexander Bauer, Chelsea Haines

   This book considers key ethical questions in museum policy and practice, particularly those related to issues of collection and display. What does a collection signify in the twenty-first century museum? How does an engagement with immateriality challenge museums’ concept of ownership, and how does...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran

    Edited by Pedram Khosronejad

    Today, almost a generation has passed since the Iran–Iraq war and the memory of it is set to diminish with each passing generation. The following questions emerge. Can we say that the gradual disappearance of war’s memory means that, increasingly, Iranians will see the Iran–Iraq war solely as an...

    Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge