Heritage in action : making the past in the present /: making the past in the present. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helaine Silverman, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson editors.
• Editors: Silverman, Helaine; Waterton, Emma; Watson, Steve
• Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. An Introduction to Heritage in Action (Emma Waterton, Steve Watson and Helaine Silverman) -- Part II: Making and Remaking Heritage -- 2. The Case for Ethical Guidelines: Preventing Conflict in the Selection of World Heritage Sites (Michael Angelo Liwanag) -- 3. Restoring a Nyingma Buddhist Monastery, Nepal (Hayley Saul and Emma Waterton) -- 4. Reconnections (Steve Watson and Emma Waterton) -- Part III: Stakeholder Challenges -- 5. The Formation of Heritage Elites: Talking Rights and Practicing Privileges in an Afro-Colombian Community (Maria Fernanda Escallon) -- 6. Ethical or Empty Gestures?: World Heritage Nominations in Conflictual Contexts (Helen Human) -- 7. Encountering Migration Heritage in a National Park (Denis Byrne) -- Part IV: Memories of War -- 8. Critical Heritage Debates and the Commemoration of the First World War: Productive Nostalgia and Discourses of Respectful Reverence during the Centenary (David C. Harvey) -- 9. Lapland's Dark Heritage: Responses to the Legacy of World War II (Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto and Suzie Thomas) -- Part V: Urban Contexts -- 10. Heritage Activism and Cultural Rights: The Case of the New Acropolis Museum (Kalliopi Fouseki and Maria Shehade) -- 11. Public Perception and Conservation: The Case of Alexandria's Built Heritage (Lama Said and Yomna Borg) -- Part VI: New Mobilities -- 12. What of Heritage in a Mobile World? Negotiating Heritage/Tourism/Community in Luang Prabang, Laos (Russell Staiff and Robyn Bushell) -- 13. Heritage on the Go: Abbreviated Heritage in a Mobile World (Helaine Silverman) -- 14. Moveable Feasts: Food as Revitalizing Cultural Heritage (Michael A. Di Giovine, Jonathan B. Mabry, and Teresita Majewski) -- 15. Technologies, Technocracy and the Promise of 'Alternative' Heritage Values (Trinidad Rico). .
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages), 51 illustrations, 46 illustrations in color
• Subjects: 930.1; Social sciences; Cultural property -- Protection; Historic preservation; Historic sites; World Heritage areas; Cultural property -- Protection; Historic preservation; Historic sites; World Heritage areas; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Cultural studies; Archaeology; Cultural heritage; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319428703; 3319428705
• Related ISBNs: 9783319428680
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.