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Ashima Krishna, Nathan W. Swanson - Asian American Places of Heritage, Inbunden

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Asian American Places of Heritage

Honoring Place, Culture, and Identity

Av Ashima Krishna, Nathan W. Swanson

Del i serien Routledge Research in Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation

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Asian American Places of Heritage: Honoring Place, Culture, and Identity broadens the understanding of Asian American built heritage and its vital role in shaping the US cultural landscape. This groundbreaking volume explores how places significant to diverse Asian American cultures and communities fit within broader historical narratives of immigration, identity, and cultural expression. By contextualizing these sites within interdisciplinary frameworks, the book offers a compelling lens through which to view the rich and multifaceted heritage of Asian American communities.Drawing on perspectives from architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, religious studies, geography, and history, this book highlights the urgent need to address the lack of recognition for Asian American heritage sites. Historically, preservation efforts have prioritized sites of European influence, leaving the histories and places of non-European immigrant communities underrepresented and vulnerable to demolition and redevelopment. This volume seeks to fill this critical gap in scholarship, practice, and policy, advocating for a more inclusive approach to historic preservation.This book is an essential resource for scholars, community organizations, and historic preservation practitioners across North America. It will also resonate with Asian and Asian American societies, as well as researchers of Asian and Asian American heritage, particularly given its inclusive definition of what constitutes ‘Asian.’ By addressing a pressing need in the field, this volume offers valuable insights for anyone invested in the preservation and celebration of cultural diversity.
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Ashima Krishna, PhD, is Assistant Director of EPICS and Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in EPICS and the School of Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She also serves as Director of Urban Matters Lab. She is an architect, urban planner, and historic preservation planner whose research spans the management of historic urban landscapes and adaptive reuse of religious historic structures and landscapes, with a particular focus on the intersection with community development and equity issues and resulting policy challenges. Dr. Krishna’s published work has been featured in the Journal of Urbanism, Preservation Education and Research, Change Over Time, and the Journal of American Planning Association among others. Her co-edited book Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India: Approaches and Challenges was published by Routledge in 2020.Nathan W. Swanson, JD, PhD, is Clinical Assistant Professor and Academic Director for Global Initiatives in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. As a political, feminist, and cultural geographer, his research is focused in three areas: (1) geopolitics of everyday life, (2) public space and power, and (3) critical cartography and counter-mapping (as a member of 3Cs: the Counter-Cartographies Collective). Dr. Swanson has previously conducted research in the Middle East on the geopolitics of home, and his current research focuses on the geographies of Middle Eastern migrant communities in Scandinavia. Dr. Swanson regularly leads domestic and international study away programs for interdisciplinary groups of students and disseminates work on honors education and intercultural learning through publications and conference presentations.

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