Overview
- Addresses how government policies provoke cultural contestation
- Avoids striking a strict distinction between tangible and intangible heritage while also allowing for the possibility that conflict surrounding objects and practices might differ from each other with a number of case studies in each
- Combines insights from political science to heritage studies, public administration to architecture to underscore the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to the topic
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Governmental Favoring and Repression of Heritage
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Cultural Contestation Between States
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Government Mitigation in Cultural Contestation
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About this book
Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others. In some cases, exclusion from a society’s symbolic landscape can spark controversy, or rouse emotion so much so that they result in cultural contestation. Examples of this abound, but few studies explicitly analyze the role of government in these instances. In this volume, scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds examine the various and often conflicting roles governments play in these processes—and governments do play a role. They act as authors and authorizers of the symbolic landscape, from which societal groups may feel excluded. Yet, they also often attempt to bring parties together and play a mitigating role.
Reviews
“It is really nice to see such interdisciplinary conversation developing between heritage studies and political science. Significantly, this work has a capacity to deliver on the promise of ‘criticality’ within recent research on cultural heritage, through a range of tightly focused case studies that have global appeal.” (David C. Harvey, Professor of Critical Heritage Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jeroen Rodenberg is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He specializes in governance and policy of cultural heritage.
Pieter Wagenaar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He specializes in the history of governance and the governance of history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Contestation
Book Subtitle: Heritage, Identity and the Role of Government
Editors: Jeroen Rodenberg, Pieter Wagenaar
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91914-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91913-3Published: 18 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06326-9Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91914-0Published: 04 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 342
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Cultural Policy and Politics, Governance and Government, Public Administration, Memory Studies