Description:
The volume develops research in Critical Heritage Studies by:
- Providing a multi/interdisciplinary point of view to politics of scale and heritage-scale relationship. Contributors to the volume have their disciplinary background in: geography, cultural studies, art history, museum studies, sociology, political science, literature, linguistics, gender studies, and art.
- Providing a global perspective to heritage. The geographical focus of the volume includes regions and countries in four continents: Asia, Australia, Europe and Northern America.
- Combining in the analysis three crucial points of view: concepts, institutions and their policies, and heritagization practices.
- Providing a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.
- Discussing multifaceted meanings of scale that are not only about levels such as global, national, and local, but also about spatialized social and cultural borders and border-crossings and about scale in digital platforms.
Brief description:
Tuuli Lähdesmäki is Associate Professor of Art History at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Lähdesmäki specializes in heritage, culture, and identity politics particularly in the context of the European Union.
Review Quotes:
"...the book is a magnificent contribution to the field of critical heritage and a must read for those interested in the subject matter." - Archäologische Informationen