Addresses how government policies provoke cultural contestation Avoids striking a strict distinction between tangible and intangible heritage while also allowing for the possibility that conflict surrounding objects and practices might differ from each other with a number of case studies in each Combines insights from political science to heritage studies, public administration to architecture to underscore the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach to the topic

Autorentext

Jeroen Rodenberg is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He specializes in governance and policy of cultural heritage.

Pieter Wagenaar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He specializes in the history of governance and the governance of history.

Inhalt

1. Cultural Contestation: Identity, Heritage and the Role of Government (Jeroen Rodenberg and Pieter Wagenaar).- 2. Cultural Contestation in China: Ethnicity, Identity and the State (Christina Maags).- 3. Ethnicity, Heritage and Human Rights in the Union of Myanmar (William Logan).- 4. The Obliteration of Heritage of the Jumma People and the Role of Government: The Story of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Rumana Hashem).- 5. Impediment or Resource?: Contextualisation of the Shared Built Heritage in Turkey (Deniz Ikiz Kaya and Mehmet Calhan).- 6. From Underworld to Museum Showcase: Afro-Cuban Religions, Heritage Production and Cuban Cultural Policy (Michelle A. Tisdel).- 7. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Contesting Canada's National Park Narrative (Desiree Valadares).- 8. Famagusta, Cyprus: Cultural Heritage at the Center of Political and Cultural Contestation (Carlos Jaramillo).- 9. The War over Nagorno-Karabakh and Its Lasting Effects on Cultural Heritage (Marja van Heese).- 10. Dealing with a Difficult Past: Japan, South Korea and the UNESCO World Heritage List (Ioan Trifu).- 11. Lost Temporalities and Imagined Histories: The Symbolic Violence in the Greek-Macedonian Naming Dispute (Biljana Volchevska).- 12. Of, by and for Which People? Government and Contested Heritage in the American Midwest (Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Larry J. Zimmerman).- 13. Ethno-Nationalism Revisited?: A Journey through the New Estonian National Museum ( Eesti Rahva Muuseum ) (Emilia Pawusz).- 14. Acting in a National Play: Governmental Roles during the Zwarte Piet Contestation (Pieter Wagenaar and Jeroen Rodenberg).- 15. Conclusion: Roles Governments Play in Shaping the Symbolic Landscape (Jeroen Rodenberg and Pieter Wagenaar). <p