Politics of Scale: New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies (Explorations in Heritage Studies Book 1)

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. __Politics of Scale__ offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics. Contents Figures and Tables Foreword Introduction. Heritage and Scale PART I. SCALED CONCEPTUALIZATION OF HERITAGE Chapter 1. Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China Chapter 2. The ‘European Significance’ of Heritage: Politics of Scale in EU Heritage Policy Discourse Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures PART II. SCALE IN HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES Chapter 4. Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor Chapter 5. The Politics of Border Heritage: EU’s Cross-Border Cooperation as Scalar Politics in the Spanish-Portuguese Border Chapter 6. Broadening the Scope of Heritage: The Concept of Cultural Environment and Scalar Relations in Finnish Cultural Environment Policy PART III. SCALE IN HERITAGE PRACTICES Chapter 7. Locals, Incomers, Tourists and Gold Diggers: Space, Politics and the ‘Dark Heritage’ Legacy of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland Chapter 8. Becoming Mediterranean: Th e Intangible Cultural Heritage of Klapa Singing in Identity-Building and Nation-Branding Discourses Chapter 9. Tuning in to Radio Heritage in Newfoundland Afterword. The Politics of Scale for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Identification, Ownership and Representation Index 4e de couv. : Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics