Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape (Heritage, Culture & Identity) (Heritage, Culture and Identity)

the Cultural Landscape Is Often Viewed As An Emblematic Site, And Thus A Key Player In The Heritage Process. This Book Explores The Overlapping And Often Complex Relationships Between Identity, Memory, Heritage And The Cultural Landscape. It Provides An Overview Of New Approaches In The Study Of These Relationships, Combined With Evidence From Ireland, England, Scotland And The United States. the Study Of The Cultural Landscape Has Gained Momentum In Recent Years, Revealing New Insights To Geographers, Archaeologists, Sociologists And Architects. The Cultural Landscape Is Often Viewed As An Emblematic Site And Thus A Key Player In The Heritage Process. This Book Explores The Overlapping And Often Complex Relationships Between Identity, Memory, Heritage And The Cultural Landscape. It Provides An Overview Of New Approaches In The Study Of These Relationships, Combined With Evidence From Ireland, England, Scotland And The United States. These Case Studies Demonstrate The Significance Of The Past In The Contemporary Construction Of Identity Narratives And Draw Attention To The Powerful Role Of Monuments And Parades As Sites Of Cultural Heritage. The Focus Then Shifts To The Way In Which Heritage Has Become Politicized For Various Ends, Demonstrating The Changing Perception Of Particular Heritage Sites And Buildings, And The Role That This Has Played In Constructing And Reconstructing Particular Identities. Bringing Together Case Studies From Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada, Germany And Mexico, This Book Examines The Link Between Senses Of Place And Senses Of Time. It Suggests That Not Only Do Place Identities Change Through Time, But Imagined Pasts Also Provide Resources Which The Present Selects And Packages For Its Own Contemporary Purposes And For Forwarding To Imagined Futures. The Reasons Behind The Creation Of Place Image Are Also Explored, Setting Them Within Political And Social Contexts. It Questions How Senses Of Place Interact With Senses Of Ethnic/cultural Identity, What The Roles Of Government, Media, Residents And Tourists Are In Creating Senses Of Place, And How And Why All These Variables Change Through Time.--jacket. Introduction: Senses Of Place, Senses Of Time And Heritage -- Creating Senses Of Place From Senses Of Time -- Introduction To Theme One / G.j. Ashworth And Brian Graham -- Making Places: A Story Of De Venen / Paulus P.p. Huigen And Louise Meijering -- Commodification Of Regional Identities: The 'selling' Of Waterland / Carola Simon -- 'that Quintessential Repository Of Collective Memory': Identity, Locality And The Townland In Northern Ireland / Bryonie Reid -- Mapping Meanings In The Cultural Landscape / Yvonne Whelan -- Exploring The Irish Mumming Tradition With Gis / Amanda Mcmullan -- The Public/official Creation Of Place Identities -- Introduction To Theme Two / G.j. Ashworth And Brian Graham -- Irish Regimental Heritage: Representations Of Identity And War In A Climate Of Change / Kenneth J.s. Miller -- A Place Called Nunavut: Building On Inuit Past / K.i.m. Van Dam -- Conflict Commemoration Amongst Protestants In Northern Ireland / Catherine Switzer -- World Heritage As A Means Of Marking Mexican Identity / Bart Van Der Aa -- Insiders And Outsiders -- Introduction To Theme Three / G.j. Ashworth And Brian Graham -- Escaping Times And Places: An Artist Community In Germany / Bettina Van Hoven, Louise Meijering And Paulus P.p. Huigen -- Literature And The Constitution Of Place Identity: Three Examples From Belfast / Jonathan Stainer -- Imagining Newfoundlands / G.j. Ashworth -- Media Production Of Rural Identities / Peter Groote And Tialda Haartsen -- The Creation Of Identities By Government Designation: A Case Study Of The Korreweg District, Groningen, Netherlands / M.j. Kuipers -- Conclusions: The Next Questions / G.j. Ashworth And Brian Graham. Edited By G.j. Ashworth, Brian Graham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Introduction / F. Javier Monclús And Manuel Guàrdia -- History Builds The Town : On The Uses Of History In Twentieth-century City Planning / Michael Hebbert And Wolfgang Sonne -- The Cultural Dimension Of Urban Planning Strategies : An Historical Perspective / Robert Freestone And Chris Gibson -- Speak, Culture! : Culture In Planning's Past, Present, And Future / Greg Young -- Capital Cities And Culture : Evolution Of Twentieth-century Capital City Planning / David L.a. Gordon -- The Power Of Anticipation : Itinerant Images Of Metropolitan Futures : Buenos Aires, 1900-1920 / Margarita Gutman -- Words And History : Controversies On Urban Heritage In Italy / Giorgio Piccinato -- Urban Destruction Or Preservation? : Conservation Movement And Planning In Twentieth-century Scandinavian Capitals / Laura Kolbe -- Planning The Historic City : 1960s Plans For Bath And York / John Pendelbury -- Multiple Exposures Or New Cultural Values? : European Historical Centres And Recent Immigration Fluxes / Alessandro Scarnato -- New Urbanism And Planning History : Back To The Future / Christopher Silver -- Branding The City Of Culture : The Death Of City Planning? / Graeme Evans -- International Exhibitions And Planning : Hosting Large-scale Events As Place Promotion And As Catalysts Of Urban Regeneration / F. Javier Monclús -- Contemporary Urban Spectacularisation / Lilian Vaz And Paula Berenstein Jacques -- Culture, Tradition And Modernity In The Latin American City : Some Recent Experiences / Roberto Segre -- 'cities Are Fun!' : Inventing And Spreading The Baltimore Model Of Cultural Urbanism / Stephen V. Ward. Edited By Javier Monclús And Manuel Guàrdia. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 List of Maps and Tables......Page 9 Notes on Contributors......Page 10 Preface......Page 11 PART I: Landscape, Memory and Identity......Page 14 1 Landscape and Memory: Historiography, Theory, Methodology......Page 16 2 Memory, Identity and the Memorialization of Conflict in the Scottish Highlands......Page 32 3 The Battle for Annie Moore: Sculpting an Irish American Identity at Ellis Island National Monument......Page 50 4 Constructing Famine Memory: The Role of Monuments......Page 68 5 ‘Fostered To Trouble the Next Generation’: Contesting the Ownership of the Martyrs Commemoration Ritual in Manchester 1888–1921......Page 82 PART II: The Politics of Heritage and the Cultural Landscape......Page 96 6 Changing Conceptions of Heritage and Landscape......Page 98 7 Valorizing Urban Heritage? Redevelopment in a Changing City......Page 108 8 Moving Buildings and Changing History......Page 122 9 Military Heritage, Identity and Development: A Case Study of Elvas, Portugal......Page 134 10 Landscapes in the Living Memory: New Year Festivities at Angkor, Cambodia......Page 146 C......Page 162 H......Page 163 M......Page 164 S......Page 165 Y......Page 166 Historico-geographical explorations of Ireland's heritages : towards a critical understanding of the nature of memory and identity / Mark McCarthy Commemorative heritage and the dialectics of memory / Guy Beiner A lost heritage : the Connaught Rangers and multivocal Irishness / John Morrissey Memory and identity in 'Irish' Australia : constructing alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1855-1873 / Lindsay Proudfoot and Dianne Hall Performing Irish-American heritage : the Irish historic pageant, New York, 1913 / Deborah Sugg Ryan Newgrange, heritage and the Irish nation : two moments of transformation / David C. Harvey Heritage, rhetoric, identity : critical reflections on the Carrickmines Castle controversy / Tadhg O'Keeffe Ireland and the house of invented memory / Hugh Maguire Remembering the creameries / Maura Cronin The tourism nexus : national identity and the meanings of tourism since the Irish Civil War / Eric E. Zuelow Redefining nation, identity and tradition : the challenge for Ireland's national museums / Gemma Reid The construction of community through heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke Identity crisis? heritage construction, tourism and place marketing in Ireland / Ruth McManus. Since its discovery by German romantics and nationalists, Rothenburg has been an established icon of the German nation and its medieval past. By tracing Rothenburg's historical development as a place of national importance, this book examines the cultural politics of historical preservation and tourism in general. In exploring the shifting practice and importance of tourism in Rothenburg and how this relates to broader debates about German culture and identity, Preservation, Tourism and Nationalism offers an important and original perspective on the changing dynamics of romanticized historical landscapes and how events are used to further national, cultural and political agendas. It also analyses the changing practices of historical preservation, and in particular, how historic preservation in Rothenburg reflects a desire to make it more historic and more German. With important insights into what it means to be German, how Germans relate to the past and how the answers to these questions have changed over time, this richly illustrated and detailed volume offers an important narrative of the rise, evolution and contestation of memory in German culture. The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. While this book does not attempt to answer this question per se, it addresses a largely ignored, but important issue, which might provide some insights into the matter. This issue is the link between culture/tradition and socio-economic development in Africa. By weaving a common thread through these concepts, this book breaks new ground in the discourse on development. It highlights the differences between Euro-centric culture, which is rooted in capitalist ideology and Protestant ethic, and traditional African culture, where concepts such as capital accumulation, entrepreneurial attitudes and material wealth are not of top priority. In doing so, it dispels popular myths, stereotypes and distortions, as well as discounting misleading accounts about major aspects of African culture and traditional practices. While there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism, there has been little work which focuses on'placed'materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective, asserting the inadequacy of conventional'self/other'binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire. Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants, settlers, expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule. In critically examining place and hybridity within a discursive context, (Dis)placing Empire offers new insights into the practice of Empire. "This book is the first sustained attempt to incorporate critical scholarship and thought at the cutting edge of contemporary geography, history and archaeology into the burgeoning field of Irish heritage studies. It seeks to illustrate the validity of multiple depictions of the Irish past, showing how scrutiny of heritage practices and meanings is so essential for illuminating our understanding of the present. Examining Ireland's heritages from a critical perspective that celebrates notions of heterogeneity and uniqueness, the distinguished contributors to this book scrutinise the multiplicity of complex relations between heritage, history, memory, commemoration, economy, and cultural identity within various historical, geographical and archaeological contexts. Using several examples and case studies, this book raises issues not only from a uniquely Irish perspective, but also investigates the memorialisation and marketing of the Irish past in overseas locations such as the USA and Australia."--BOOK JACKET Bringing together case studies from Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests that not only do place identities change through time, but imagined pasts also provide resources which the present selects and packages for its own contemporary purposes and for forwarding to imagined futures. The reasons behind the creation of place image are also explored, setting them within political and social contexts. In its three main sections - Heritage in the Creation of Senses of Place; Heritage and Conflicting Identities; and Heritage and the Creation of Senses of Place - the book examines the creation of place identities at the urban, rural, regional and international scales. It questions how senses of place interact with senses of ethnic/cultural identity, what the roles of government, media, residents and tourists are in creating senses of place, and how and why all these variables change through time. The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity, successful 'global cities' have a strong individual - and particularly cultural - identity. The economic value of the culture of cities lies not only in the arts taking place there but also in the citys fabric, its architecture, and in its cultural heritage. This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture, urbanism and history, the book reviews heritage and planning culture, looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'. The book also assesses the increasingly important issue of urban images and their influence on planning strategies. Introduction : place, network, and the geographies of empire / Lindsay Proudfoot and Michael Roche Colonial spaces and sites of resistance : landed estates in 19th century Ireland / Paddy Duffy The unsettled country : landscape, history, and memory in Australia's wheatlands / Joy McCann Place and presbyterian discourse in colonial Australia / Lindsay Proudfoot Irishness, gender, and household space in "an up-country township" / Di Hall Performing power, demonstrating resistance : interpreting Queen Victoria's visit to Dublin in 1900 / Yvonne Whelan Environment-identity convergences in Australia, 1880-1950 / J.M. Powell Empire, duty, and land : soldier settlement in New Zealand, 1915-1924 / Michael Roche "Oriental sore" or "public nuisance" : the regulation of prostitution in Colonial India, 1805-1889 / M. Satish Kumar Prostitution and the place of empire : regulation and repeal in Hong Kong and the British imperial network / Philip Howell.

bringing Together Contributions From Historians, Geographers, And Archaeologists, Mccarthy (galway-mayo Institute Of Technology, Ireland) Presents 13 Papers Examining Relationships Between Heritage, History, Memory, Commemoration, Economy, And Cultural Identity In Ireland. The Papers Are Organized Around The Themes Of Commemoration And The Politics And The Politics Of Heritage; Spaces Of Individual And Collective Memory; And Heritage, Economy, And Constructs Of Identity. Examples Of Specific Topics Include The 1913 Irish Historic Pageant In New York As The Performance Of Heritage; Heritage Construction, Tourism, And Place Marketing In Ireland, Documentary And Oral Histories Of Irish Co-operative Creameries, Construction Of Irish Alterity In Australia, And National Identity And The Meanings Of Tourism Since The Irish Civil War. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

"Since its discovery by German romantics and nationalists, Rothenburg has been an established icon of the German nation and its medieval past. By tracing Rothenburg's historical development as a place of national importance, this book examines the cultural politics of historical preservation and tourism in general." In exploring the shifting practice and importance of tourism in Rothenburg and how this relates to broader debates about German culture and identity, the book offers an important and original perspective on the changing dynamics of romanticized historical landscapes and how events are used to further national, cultural and political agendas. The book also analyses the changing practices of historical preservation, and in particular, how historic preservation in Rothenburg reflects a desire to make it more historic, more medieval, more German. "Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants, settlers, expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule. In critically examining place and hybridity within a discursive context, (Dis)placing Empire offers new insights into the practice of Empire."--Jacket Through the preservation of its medieval architecture and the growth of modern tourism, Rothenburg has come to occupy a special place in the memory landscape of Germany as a symbol of rootedness, community and continuity with a bygone era. Yet, little attention is paid to how Rothenburg came to be the paragon of romantic Germany This text explores the overlapping complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. It is divided into two main sections: 'Landscape, Memory and Identity', 'The Politics of Heritage and the Cultural Landscape' In recent years, the reconceptualisation of identities for cultural programming, conflict resolution and tourism industries has meant that questions concerning both heritage and public memory have gained academic importance (Holdsworth, 2002). The overall aim of this book is to examine the relationships between place and time as these are related though the medium of heritage. Ambe J. Njoh. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [205]-222) And Index.