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Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures book cover

1st Edition

Creating Heritage Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures

Edited By Thomas Carter, David Harvey, Roy Jones, Iain Robertson Copyright 2020
258 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are. Some aspects of our pasts are venerated and memorialised for a variety of reasons, while others are... Read more

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction
    Thomas Carter, David C. Harvey, Roy Jones and Iain J.M. Robertson

  2. Bygones, survivals and ‘all the old rubbish’: curatorial discernment and the failure to create an English folk museum
    Thomas Carter

  3. Disruptive forms, persistent values: negotiating digital heritage and ‘The Memory of the World’
    Elizabeth Stainforth
  4. ‘Tracking’ working class heritage
    Iain J.M. Robertson

  5. Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: conflicting realms of heritage
    Dagmar Zadrazilova

  6. Hidden heritage and secret coves: analysing a discourse used to communicate about heritage and reflecting on its ontological politics
    Timothy J. Wilkinson

  7. A geomorphic paradox: performing histories of change as the land-slips away
    Frances Ryfield

  8. Ancestral tourism and heritage work on a Hebridean island
    Joanna Rodgers

  9. Remembering animals of the past and creating new sculptures of animal relationships with humans
    Hilda Kean

  10. From imperialism to inclusion: the evolving representations of heritage in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia
    Roy Jones

  11. Are all forgotten friends worthy of memory? The public history of biotechnology in Canada
    Peter Anderson

  12. The heritage of agricultural innovation and technical change in post-war Britain: heroic narratives, hidden histories and stories from below
    David C. Harvey, Paul Brassley, Matthew Lobley and Michael Winter

  13. Heritage and sustainable development: the case of tobacco agriculture in eastern Taiwan
    Han-Hsiu Chen

  14. Afterword
    Thomas Carter, David C. Harvey, Roy Jones and Iain J.M. Robertson

Index

Biography

Thomas Carter is the Heritage and Volunteer Coordinator for the University of Northampton Students’ Union. His work focuses on research and engagement projects connected to the restored Grade II listed Midland Railway Engine Shed which is now the Students Union’s home.



David C. Harvey is an Associate Professor in Critical Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and an Honorary Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. His work focuses on the geographies of heritage, landscape and commemoration.



Roy Jones is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He is a historical geographer with research interests in heritage, tourism and regional change.





Iain J.M. Robertson is Reader in History at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK, and an Adjunct Professor of Historical Geography at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. His work focuses on entanglements of heritage and power.

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