Heritage Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Fighting Discrimination in Europe

   The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach

   Edited by Mathias Möschel, Costanza Hermanin, Michele Grigolo

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   The member states of the EU have only very recently begun to consider race and racism in the framework of equality legislation and policies. As opposed to an established Anglo-Saxon tradition of naming races and using racial categorisation to fight racism, most continental European countries resist...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Public and Popular History

   Edited by Jerome De Groot

   This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses. Grounded in particular local and national situations, the book addresses the issues...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. New Horizons in Arts, Heritage, Nonprofit and Social Marketing

   Edited by Roger Bennett, Finola Kerrigan, Daragh O'Reilly

   Series: Key Issues in Marketing Management

   Arts, heritage, non-profit and social marketing today comprise key components of the contemporary marketing management scene. Governments, charities and voluntary sector organisations throughout the world are increasingly involved in the development of marketing campaigns, and more and more of...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Museums, Equality and Social Justice

   Edited by Richard Sandell, Eithne Nightingale

   Series: Museum Meanings

   The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Carnival Art, Culture and Politics

    Performing Life

    Edited by Michaeline Crichlow

    Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge