Politics Of Scale: New Directions In Critical Heritage Stud

Description: 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, and discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.



Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction: Heritage and Scale Tuuli Lahdesmaki, Yujie Zhu and Suzie Thomas SECTION 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 DiscourseTuuli Lahdesmaki and Katja Makinen Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures Rhiannon Bettivia and Elizabeth Stainforth SECTION 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 Maria Lois Chapter 6. Broadening the Scope of Heritage: The Concept of Cultural Environment and Scalar Relations in Finnish Cultural Environment Policy Satu Kahkonen and Tuuli Lahdesmaki SECTION 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 Buljubasic and Tuuli Lahdesmaki Chapter 9. Tuning in to Radio Heritage in Newfoundland Michael Windover and Hilary Grant Conclusion: The Politics of Scale for Intangible Cultural Heritage - Identification, Ownership and Representation Kristin Kuutma Bibliography Index



Author Biography: Tuuli Lahdesmaki is an Academy Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyvaskyla (JYU), Finland.Suzie Thomas is Professor of Cultural Heritage Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Yujie Zhu is a Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University.