Description
Book Synopsis Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.
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Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
David C. Harvey and Ali Mozaffari
Introduction: Heritage and Scale
Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Yujie Zhu and Suzie Thomas
PART I: SCALED CONCEPTUALIZATION OF HERITAGE
Chapter 1. Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China
Yujie Zhu
Chapter 2. The ‘European Significance’ of Heritage: Politics of Scale in EU Heritage Policy Discourse
Tuuli Lähdesmäki and Katja Mäkinen
Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures
Rhiannon Bettivia and Elizabeth Stainforth
PART II: SCALE IN HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES
Chapter 4. Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor
Rowena Butland
Chapter 5. The Politics of Border Heritage: EU’s Cross-Border Cooperation as Scalar Politics in the Spanish-Portuguese Border
María Lois
Chapter 6. Broadening the Scope of Heritage: The Concept of Cultural Environment and Scalar Relations in Finnish Cultural
Environment Policy
Satu Kähkönen and Tuuli Lähdesmäki
PART III: SCALE IN HERITAGE PRACTICES
Chapter 7. Locals, Incomers, Tourists and Gold Diggers: Space, Politics and the ‘Dark Heritage’ Legacy of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
Suzie Thomas
Chapter 8. Becoming Mediterranean: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Klapa Singing in Identity-Building and Nation-Branding
Discourses
Eni Buljubašić and Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Chapter 9. Tuning in to Radio Heritage in Newfoundland
Michael Windover and Hilary Grant
Afterword: The Politics of Scale for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Identification, Ownership and Representation
Kristin Kuutma
Index
