Beschreibung:
Developing new theoretical approaches and innovative models for more dialogically democratic heritage decision making processes, Heritage: Critical Approaches unravels the relationship between heritage and the experience of late modernity, whilst reorienting heritage so that it might be more productively connected with other pressing social, economic, political and environmental issues of our time.
List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Heritage everywhere 2. Some definitions: Heritage, modernity, materiality 3. Prehistories of World Heritage: The emergence of a concept 4. Late modernity and the heritage 'boom' 5. Critical heritage studies and the discursive turn 6. Intangible heritage and cultural landscapes 7. Heritage, diversity and human rights 8. Heritage and the 'problem' of memory 9. Dialogical heritage and sustainability 10. A future for the past? Notes References Index