Companion to Heritage Studies

William Logan is Professor Emeritus and UNESCO Chair in Heritage and Urbanism in the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University, Melbourne. He has written, edited, or co-edited 14 books, including Hanoi: Biography of a City (2000), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with ‘Difficult Heritage’ (2009, edited with K. Reeves), and Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice (2010, edited with M. Langfield and M. Nic Craith). A fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria, Dr Logan is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Heritage Studies and Historic Environment.Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor of European Culture and Heritage and Director of the Intercultural Research Centre at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and has been a panel member for the UK Research Assessment Exercise (2008) and UK Research Excellence Framework (2014). Her publications include Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice (2010, edited with W. Logan and M. Langfield), A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe (Wiley, 2012, edited with U. Kockel and J. Frykman), and Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language: An Intercultural Perspective (2012). Ullrich Kockel is Professor of Culture and Economy at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and a Visiting Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Member of the Royal Irish Academy, he is on the Steering Group of Learning for Sustainability Scotland. His publications include Re-Visioning Europe: Frontiers, Place Identities and Journeys in Debatable Lands (2010) and A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe (Wiley, 2012, edited with M. Nic Craith and J. Frykman).

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• List of Figures and Tables xNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgements xixList of Abbreviations xxFramework1 The New Heritage Studies: Origins and Evolution, Problems and Prospects 1William Logan, Ullrich Kockel, and Máiréad Nic CraithPart I Expanding Heritage 272 Heritage Places: Evolving Conceptions and Changing Forms 29Neil A. Silberman3 From Folklore to Intangible Heritage 41Kristin Kuutma4 Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property: Convergence, Divergence, and Interface 55Folarin Shyllon5 Intangible Heritage and Embodiment: Japan’s Influence on Global Heritage Discourse 69Natsuko Akagawa6 The Politics of Heritage in the Land of Food and Wine 87Marion Demossier7 (Re)visioning the Ma’ohi Landscape of Marae Taputapuatea, French Polynesia: World Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Pacific Islands 101Anita Smith8 The Kingdom of Death as a Heritage Site: Making Sense of Auschwitz 115Jonathan Webber9 The Memory of the World and its Hidden Facets 133Anca Claudia Prodan10 African Indigenous Heritage in Colonial and Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the Batwa of Africa’s Great Lakes Region 146Maurice MugabowagahundePart II Using and Abusing Heritage 16111 Valuing the Past, or, Untangling the Social, Political, and Economic Importance of Cultural Heritage Sites 163Brenda Trofanenko12 Cultural Heritage under the Gaze of International Tourism Marketing Campaigns 176Helaine Silverman and Richard W. Hallett13 Heritagescaping and the Aesthetics of Refuge: Challenges to Urban Sustainability 189Tim Winter14 Cultural Heritage as a Strategy for Social Needs and Community Identity 203Keir Reeves and Gertjan Plets15 Heritage in the Digital Age 215Maria Economou16 World Heritage and National Hegemony: The Discursive Formation of Chinese Political Authority 229Haiming Yan17 War Museums and Memory Wars in Contemporary Poland 243Julie Fedor18 Heritage in an Expanded Field: Reconstructing Bridge‐ness in Mostar 254Andrea Connor19 Heritage Under Fire: Lessons from Iraq for Cultural Property Protection 268Benjamin Isakhan20 The Intentional Destruction of Heritage: Bamiyan and Timbuktu 280Christian Manhart21 Heritage and the Politics of Cultural Obliteration: The Case of the Andes 295O. Hugo BenavidesPart III Recasting Heritage 30722 The Economic Feasibility of Heritage Preservation 309Ron van Oers23 UNESCO and Cultural Heritage: Unexpected Consequences 322Christina Cameron24 The Limits of Heritage: Corporate Interests and Cultural Rights on Resource Frontiers 337Rosemary J. Coombe and Melissa F. Baird25 Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the World Heritage Convention 355Stefan Disko26 UNESCO, the World Heritage Convention, and Africa: The Practice and the Practitioners 373George Okello Abungu27 World Heritage Sites in Africa: What Are the Benefits of Nomination and Inscription? 392Webber Ndoro28 Heritage in the “Asian Century”: Responding to Geopolitical Change 410Zeynep Aygen and William Logan29 (Re‐)Building Heritage: Integrating Tangible and Intangible 426Máiréad Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel30 The Elephant in the Room: Heritage, Affect, and Emotion 443Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell31 Cross‐Cultural Encounters and “Difficult Heritage” on the Thai–Burma Railway: An Ethics of Cosmopolitanism rather than Practices of Exclusion 461Andrea Witcomb32 Heritage and Cosmopolitanism 479Lynn Meskell33 “Putting Broken Pieces Back Together”: Reconciliation, Justice, and Heritage in Post‐Conflict Situations 491Patrick Daly and Benjamin Chan34 Achieving Dialogue through Transnational World Heritage Nomination: The Case of the Silk Roads 507Ona Vileikis35 World Heritage: Alternative Futures 522Britta Rudolff and Kristal Buckley36 Challenges for International Cultural Heritage Law 541Ana Filipa Vrdoljak37 The New Heritage Studies and Education, Training, and Capacity‐Building 557William Logan and Gamini Wijesuriya Index 574