The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics

PART I Introduction

1.The Politics of Heritage

Laurajane Smith, Christopher Whitehead, Gary Campbell and Gönül Bozoğlu

2.We need a new way to talk about heritage and politics

Rhiannon Mason

PART II Forms of reconciliation, connection and mobilisation

3. Heritage and/not hate

Mads Daugbjerg

4. The Heritage Politics of Hope

Linda Norris and Braden Paynter

5. Something Happened in Cowra: Comprehending the Heritage of War Commemoration Sites and Ceremonies through Stanley Cavell’s ‘Politics of Acknowledgment’.

Darren Mitchell and Alison Starr

6. From Intangible Culture Heritage to Political Symbol – A Study of Milk Tea, Emotions, and the Pan-Asian Pro-democratic Movement

Veronica Sau-Wa Mak

7. The Collective Impact on Heritage: Lessons from the Beirut October Uprising

Nelly P. Abboud and Sarah Mady

8. Cultural Heritage and Symbolic Power in Iraq’s Protest Movement

Mehiyar Kathem

PART III Politics from below: community, local and oppositional activism

9. Heritage as white public space

Denis Byrne

10. The Politics of Heritage Instrumentalisation: A Comparative Study of Two Indigenous Cultural Villages in Malaysia 

Yunci Cai

11.Local Communities, Counter-Heritage, and Heritage Diversity: Experiences from Zimbabwe.

Jesmael Mataga

12. Preah Vihear and the Politics of Indigenous Heritage in Thailand

Alisa Santikarn

13. An anarchist imagination for critical heritage studies: Prefiguring equitable and sustainable futures in crofting and beyond

Zoe Russell

PART IV Populist and authoritarian politics

14. ‘Are you (or could you be) Indigenous?’ A Perspective from Europe

Ullrich Kockel

15. Affect, Belonging and Political Uses of the Past in a Digitally Integrated Public Sphere

David Farrell-Banks

16. Trumpian Populism and Coal mining Heritage in Northeastern Pennsylvania

V. Camille Westmont

17. Heritage and Technocracy: The Polish “digital museum boom” and its impact on heritage practice

Monika Stobiecka

18. Brumbies, settler-colonial heritage, and the Wild Horse Heritage Act (2018): the politics of feral horse management in Australia

Isa Menzies

19. Fading Memory and Inexistent Past: the concealed heritage of Stalin’s mass repression.

Anna Gaynutidnova

PART V Reconfiguring and unsettling heritage symbols

20. Making Worlds of the Past: the interdependency of heritage representation and geopolitical entities

Christopher Whitehead

21. Queering National Heritage Myths

Kris Reid

22. Must Gandhi also Fall? Reassembling #BlackLivesMatter’s Translocal Activism and Urban Fallist Movements.

Sarah John von Zydowitz and Helena Cermeño

23. ‘Am I doing it well enough?’: Roma, racialised heritage, and politics of (self-) representation in postsocialist Bulgaria

Ivo Strahilov

24. Changing Approaches to Turkey’s Byzantine Heritage: The Contexts of the 10th and the 24th International Congresses of Byzantine Studies

Barış Altan

PART VI Heritage and the negotiation of place

25. The Heritage Politics of One Man’s Living Room

Gönül Bozoğlu

26. “Don’t tell us we’re not Cuban!” How political nostalgia makes Miami and Miami makes nostalgia political.

Sjamme van de Voort

27. Nation-space and the transtemporal woodlands: The politics of the past in the heritagised narratives on forests in 21st century Finland

Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä and Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä & Hannu Linkola

28. Representations and resignification of a public monument.
The social struggles over monuments after the Social Outbreak in Santiago de Chile.

Isabel Donetch

29. Searching for brave spaces through decolonial heritage activism 

Johanna Turunen

PART VII The politics of urban transformation

30. The Gentrification of Working-Class Heritage in Lowell, Massachusetts

Kevin Coffee

31. Neoliberal times and urban heritage: sustainable preservation in the Monumenta Program in Brazil

Ana Clara Giannecchini and Elane Ribeiro Peixoto

32. Space, Politics, Heritage: Engaging in a Political Geography of Heritagisation

M. Lois, H. Cairo, S. González-García and S. González-Iturraspe

33. A Four-Hundred-Metre Walk: or how political choices may or may not transform a post-industrial landscape into a highly valuable social and ecological fabric.

Gisèle Gantois

34. The Battle for Belgrade’s Historic Riverfront: Citizen Resistance to Radical Urban Changes 

Sanja Iguman and Neil Galway

35. ‘Building a new world in the shell of the old’. Historic building squats and heritage commons. The case of Rosa Nera at Chania, Crete

Stelios Lekakis

PART VIII Heritage Policy, UNESCO and resistance

36. Saving the World: Heritage Politics at UNESCO

Lynn Meskell

37. Dance, Moving Identities, and The Political Economy of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Filip Petkovski

38. Diplomatic heritage: The involvement of the World Monuments Fund in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cuzco, Peru.

Pablo García

39. Indigenous peoples heritage and democratisation processes: from monumentalisation to participation in Peruvian cultural policy.

Marta Kania

40. The Politics of Space Heritage: Colonising and Exploiting the Final Frontier

Lauren O’Kill and Bryony Onciul

Index

Biography

Gönül Bozoğlu is a lecturer in museum and heritage studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Gary Campbell is an Australian-based independent researcher with a primary research interest in industrial heritage, deindustrialization and the politics of memory and nostalgia.

Laurajane Smith is the director of the Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University.

Christopher Whitehead is a professor of museology and dean of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, UK.