Cultural Contestation Heritage, Identity and the Role of Government /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rodenberg, Jeroen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wagenaar, Pieter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Subjects: Cultural heritage.; Cultural policy.; Political science.; Public administration.; Historiography.; Cultural Heritage.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Governance and Government.; Public Administration.; Memory Studies.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Cultural Contestation: Identity, Heritage and the Role of Government (Jeroen Rodenberg and Pieter Wagenaar)
• 2. Cultural Contestation in China: Ethnicity, Identity and the State (Christina Maags)
• 3. Ethnicity, Heritage and Human Rights in the Union of Myanmar (William Logan)
• 4. The Obliteration of Heritage of the Jumma People and the Role of Government: The Story of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Rumana Hashem)
• 5. Impediment or Resource?: Contextualisation of the Shared Built Heritage in Turkey (Deniz Ikiz Kaya and Mehmet Calhan)
• 6. From Underworld to Museum Showcase: Afro-Cuban Religions, Heritage Production and Cuban Cultural Policy (Michelle A. Tisdel)
• 7. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Contesting Canada's National Park Narrative (Desiree Valadares)
• 8. Famagusta, Cyprus: Cultural Heritage at the Center of Political and Cultural Contestation (Carlos Jaramillo)
• 9. The War over Nagorno-Karabakh and Its Lasting Effects on Cultural Heritage (Marja van Heese)
• 10. Dealing with a Difficult Past: Japan, South Korea and the UNESCO World Heritage List (Ioan Trifu)
• 11. Lost Temporalities and Imagined Histories: The Symbolic Violence in the Greek-Macedonian Naming Dispute (Biljana Volchevska)
• 12. Of, by and for Which People? Government and Contested Heritage in the American Midwest (Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Larry J. Zimmerman)
• 13. Ethno-Nationalism Revisited?: A Journey through the New Estonian National Museum (Eesti Rahva Muuseum) (Emilia Pawłusz)
• 14. Acting in a National Play: Governmental Roles during the Zwarte Piet Contestation (Pieter Wagenaar and Jeroen Rodenberg)
• 15. Conclusion: Roles Governments Play in Shaping the Symbolic Landscape (Jeroen Rodenberg and Pieter Wagenaar).