Ali Mozaffari is a Fellow of the Australian Research Council (DECRA) with the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Melbourne. Through his research, Mozaffari seeks to understand the uses of the past in contemporary discourses of heritage and built environment in Iran and West Asia. His publications include Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place (IB Tauris 2014) and World Heritage in Iran; Perspectives on Pasargadae (Routledge 2016)

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• List of illustrationsForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Negotiation, Strategic Action and the Production of HeritageAli Mozaffari and Tod JonesChapter 1. Understanding Heritage Activism: Learning from Social Movement StudiesTod Jones, Ali Mozaffari, and James M. JasperChapter 2. ‘The Past is Always New’: A Framework for Understanding the Centrality of Social Media to Contemporary Heritage MovementsTod Jones, Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus SalimChapter 3. The Exemplary Foreigner: Cultural Heritage Activism in Regional ChinaGary SigleyChapter 4. Heritage Activism in SingaporeTerence ChongChapter 5. Riverscape as Biocultural Heritage: A Local Indigenous Social Movement Contests a National Park in NepalSudeep Jana ThingChapter 6. Heritage for Whom? Caste and Contestation Among Sri Lanka’s Dumbara Rata WeaversAimée DouglasChapter 7. Heritage Activism and the Media (Framing) in IranAli Mozaffari

Ali Mozaffari is a Fellow of the Australian Research Council (DECRA) with the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Melbourne. Through his research, Mozaffari seeks to understand the uses of the past in contemporary discourses of heritage and built environment in Iran and West Asia. His publications include Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place (IB Tauris 2014) and World Heritage in Iran; Perspectives on Pasargadae (Routledge 2016)

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• List of illustrationsForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Negotiation, Strategic Action and the Production of HeritageAli Mozaffari and Tod JonesChapter 1. Understanding Heritage Activism: Learning from Social Movement StudiesTod Jones, Ali Mozaffari, and James M. JasperChapter 2. ‘The Past is Always New’: A Framework for Understanding the Centrality of Social Media to Contemporary Heritage MovementsTod Jones, Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus SalimChapter 3. The Exemplary Foreigner: Cultural Heritage Activism in Regional ChinaGary SigleyChapter 4. Heritage Activism in SingaporeTerence ChongChapter 5. Riverscape as Biocultural Heritage: A Local Indigenous Social Movement Contests a National Park in NepalSudeep Jana ThingChapter 6. Heritage for Whom? Caste and Contestation Among Sri Lanka’s Dumbara Rata WeaversAimée DouglasChapter 7. Heritage Activism and the Media (Framing) in IranAli Mozaffari