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:
Suzie Thomas is Professor of Heritage Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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