Description
Book Synopsis In 1979 Dubrovnik was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, which had consequences for the city's broader cultural heritage. Walls and Gateways explores how this status intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city’s post-war context. It analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik’s heritage are embedded in particular cultural practices, materiality and place. In Dubrovnik’s post-war context, different uses of cultural memory and heritage provoke both dissonance and unity, shape practices and mobilize cultural and political activism.
Trade Review “This is a comprehensive and insightful study of a globally significant and socio-politically complex example of heritage and tourism contestation and management.” • Roy Jones, Curtin University
“The multiple ambivalences and contradictions surrounding the Balkan War experience and the destructions, present-day tourism, heritage policies, the marginal position in the contemporary nation state and the appropriation of public space come out in a lively way, as also do a number of informants' personalities and views.” • Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on the Croatian Language
Introduction: Heritage at the Margins
Chapter 1. Dubrovnik’s World Heritage: Between the Universal and the Particular
Chapter 2. The Past in the Present
Chapter 3. Postwar Identities
Chapter 4. Place for Some or Places for All
Chapter 5. The Overheated City: Tourism and its Discontents
Chapter 6. Contested Places
Conclusion: From a Material-Based to a Value-Based Heritage
Epilogue: Sustainability and Tourism Resilience in the Light of Global Crisis
Appendix: World Heritage Committee’s 40th Session, Istanbul, July 2016: Decision on the State of Dubrovnik World Heritage Site’s Outstanding Universal Value
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