Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures

ISBN-13: 9780815347927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 244 str.

Thomas Carter; David Charles Harvey; Roy Jones

Opis

This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Bygones, survivals and ‘all the old rubbish’: curatorial discernment and the failure to create an English folk museum; 3. Disruptive forms, persistent values: negotiating digital heritage and ‘The Memory of the World’; 4. 'Tracking' working class heritage; 5. Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: conflicting realms of heritage; 6. Hidden heritage and secret coves: analysing a discourse used to communicate about heritage and reflecting on its ontological politics; 7. A geomorphic paradox: performing histories of change as the land-slips away; 8. Ancestral tourism and heritage work on a Hebridean island; 9. Remembering animals of the past and creating new sculptures of animal relationships with humans; 10. From imperialism to inclusion: the evolving representations of heritage in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia; 11. Are all forgotten friends worthy of memory? The public history of biotechnology in Canada; 12. The heritage of agricultural innovation and technical change in post-war Britain: heroic narratives, hidden histories and stories from below; 13. Heritage and sustainable development: the case of tobacco agriculture in eastern Taiwan; 14. Afterword; Index