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Book SynopsisContests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that demarcates, constitutes, produces, and polices political and social borders in the present. In its spaces, varied intersections of actors, networks, and scales of governance interact, negotiate and compete, resulting in heritage sites that are cut through by borders of memory. This volume, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, and with contributions from scholars across the humanities, history, social sciences, and Asian studies, interrogates how particular actors and narratives make heritage and how borders of memory shape the sites they produce.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Maps, and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Heritage Sites and Borders of Memory Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings Part 1: Heritage Practices 2 Regional Language as Mnemonic Practice: Stewarding Place through Storytelling in Rural Japan Joshua Solomon 3 The Chineseness of Chinatown in Singapore: Chinese New Year Celebrations in a Multiracial Heritage Site Ying-kit Chan 4 Negotiating War Memories at the Edge of the Former Japanese Empire: Two Japanese Veterans’ Projects in Palau, Micronesia Shingo Iitaka 5 Hidden Christians Made Visible: An Ethnography of Tourism in a World Heritage Property of Japan Raluca Mateoc Part 2: Material Matters 6 Art in Former Military Sites: Spectres of Geopolitics in the South China Sea Gabriel N. Gee 7 Framing Negative Heritage in Disaster Risk Education: School Memorials after 3.11 Julia Gerster and Flavia Fulco 8 Marketing the Semi-Colonial as Cosmopolitan: Treaty Port Heritage and the Remaking of Hakodate Steven Ivings 9 Politics of Heritage: Karatsu’s Takatori-tei as a Meiji Status Symbol, Monument of Modernity, and Symbol of Regional Identity Arisha Livia Satari Part 3: Layered Memories 10 At the Border of Memory and History: Kyoto’s Contested War Heritage Justin Aukema 11 The Legacy of Shinto Shrines at the Borders of Imperial Japan Karli Shimizu 12 Memorials to Korean Migrants in Kyushu: Overlapping Medieval and Modern Experiences in Local Communities Jason Mark Alexander 13 Okinoshima, Universal Heritage and Borders of Memory Edward Boyle 14 Conclusion: Borders, Heritage and What Next? Philip Seaton Index
