Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage Construction, Transformation and Destruction
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sect...
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London
UCL Press
2020
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421985406719 |
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- Introduction: why cultural memory and heritage? Veysel ApaydinPart I: Conceptualizing Cultural Memory and Heritage1. The interlinkage of cultural memory, heritage and discourses of construction, transformation and destruction Veysel ApaydinPart II: Urban Heritage, Development, Transformation and Destruction2. Mega-structural violence: considering African literary perspectives on infrastructure, modernity and destructionRachel King3. Competing for the past: the London 2012 Olympic Games, archaeology, and the ‘wasteland’Jonathan Gardner4. Covert erasure and agents of change in the heritage cityColin Sterling5. Heritage, memory and social justice: reclaiming space and identityVeysel Apaydin6. Amnesia by design: building and rebuilding in a Mediterranean small island stateReuben Grima7. Vanishing heritage, materialising memory: construction, destruction and social action in contemporary MadridJaime Almansa-Sánchez & Nekbet Corpas-CívicosPart III: Indigenous Heritage and Destruction8. Considering the denigration and destruction of Indigenous heritage as violenceGeorge Nicholas and Claire Smith9. Indigenous Latino heritage: destruction, invisibility, appropriation, revival, survivance. Images from Central America.Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez10. Rescuing’ the ground from under their feet? Contract archaeology and human rights violations in the Brazilian AmazonBruna Cigaran da Rocha11. Order and disorder: Indigenous Australian cultural heritages and the case of settler-colonial ambivalenceAmanda KearneyPart IV: Conflicts, Violence, War and Destruction12. Cultural memory as a mechanism for community cohesion: the case study of Dayr Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Qaryatayn, SyriaEmma Loosley Leeming13. Bosnia and the destruction of identityHelen Walasek14. 'Bombing Pompeii!!! Why not the Pyramids?' Myths and memories of the Allied bombing of Pompeii.Nigel D. PollardPart V: Heritage, Identity and Destruction15. Reclaiming the past as a matter of social justice: African American heritage, representation and identityin the United StatesErin Linn-Tynen16. Alternating cycles of the politics of forgetting and remembering the past in TaiwanNicolas Zorzin17. A glimpse into the crystal ball: how do we select the memory of the future?Monique van den Dries & Jose SchreursPart VI: Epilogue18. 'Cultural heritage is concerned with the future'. A critical epilogue.Cornelius HoltorfIndex
