Michael Herzfeld is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, and IIAS Professor of Critical Heritage Studies Emeritus, Leiden University. His fourteen books include Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok (2016) and Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (2022). His current research addresses heritage politics, crypto-colonialism, and artisans’ practices of competition and cooperation. Rita Padawangi is Associate Professor (Sociology) at Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her research is on social movements, community engagement, and environmental justice. Rita coordinates the Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network (SEANNET), a collaborative urban research and education initiative. She recently published Urban Development in Southeast Asia (2022).

• Chapter 1: Vernacular Heritage, Vernacular Resilience: Introducing Asian Experiences and Perspectives - Michael Herzfeld and Rita PadawangiChapter 2: When Resilience Becomes Tangible: The Social and Political Challenges to Local Self-Expression in Thailand and Elsewhere - Michael HerzfeldChapter 3: Social Resilience of the Vernacular Cosmopolitan Heritage of Melaka - Kim Nørgaard HelmersenChapter 4: “Like the Story of the Camel and His Master!”: A Melakan Village between Vernacular Heritage and Urban Transformation - Pierpaolo De GiosaChapter 5: Heritage and a Community of Belonging in Singapore - Steve FerzaccaChapter 6: The Liberation of Individual Cultural Vernacularity: Emancipating Citizens’ Subjectivity through Art - Motohiro KoizumiChapter 7: Making it Back Home: Displacement and Strategies of Resilience through Art - Tessa Maria GuazonChapter 8: Muddied Memories as Vernacular Heritage of an Unnatural Disaster - Anton Novenanto and I Wayan SuyadnyaChapter 9: Threatened Flood-Prone Alleyway Neighbourhoods of Ho Chi Minh City: What “Tactics” for Vernacular Heritage? - Marie Gibert-Flutre