Heritage Movements in Asia: Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity (Explorations in Heritage Studies Book 2)

"Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts"-- Provided by publisher Contents Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Negotiation, Strategic Action, and the Production of Heritage CHAPTER 1 Understanding Heritage Activism: Learning from Social Movement Studies CHAPTER 2 “Th e Past Is Always New” A Framework for Understanding the Centrality of Social Media to Contemporary Heritage Movements CHAPTER 3 Th e Exemplary Foreigner: Cultural Heritage Activism in Regional China CHAPTER 4 Heritage Activism in Singapore CHAPTER 5 Riverscape as Biocultural Heritage: A Local Indigenous Social Movement Contests a National Park in Nepal CHAPTER 6 Heritage for Whom? Caste and Contestation among Sri Lanka’s Dumbara Rata Weavers CHAPTER 7 Heritage Activism and the Media (Framing) in Iran, 2005–2013 Index Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters in this volume examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.