Jo Littler / Roshi Naidoo (eds.)

The Politics of Heritage

The Legacies of Race
Herausgeber: Littler, Jo; Naidoo, Roshi

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Produktbeschreibung

Can heritage culture come to terms with the ideological issues at stake when confronting devolution, colonialism, slavery, asylum and globalization? "The Politics of Heritage: Legacies of Race" explores how the heritage industry and cultural policy have responded to questions of nation and national identity. The contributors consider such national issues as whose heritage is celebrated in heritage events and spaces, how heritage is taught in schools, the symbolism of the St. George Cross, and how heritage culture has adapted to take on board a more pluralistic idea of national identity. Such questions are also examined outside Britain, with chapters on how British heritage is imagined in New Zealand, South Africa and India. By interrogating the ways in which British heritage is organized in relation to changing understandings of 'ethnicity' and 'nation', "The Politics of Heritage: Legacies of Race "asks what the possibilities are for new radical agendas that can imagine decentred and hybrid narratives of British history and identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780415322102
• ISBN-10: 0415322103
• Artikelnr.: 22092367

Autorenporträt

Jo Littler is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University. She has contributed to various edited collections. Roshi Naidoo is also a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex, in addition she is the Education/Outreach Manager for the Archives and Museum of Black Heritage

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: British heritage and the legacies of 'race'
Part One: British Heritage as International Heritage
1 Whose Heritage? Unsettling 'the Heritage'
re-imagining the post-nation
2 Never Mind the Buzzwords: 'race'
heritage and the liberal agenda
3 Commemorating the Holocaust: reconfiguring national identity in the twenty-first century
4 Museums
communities and the politics of heritage in Northern Ireland
5 Ghosts: heritage and the shape of things to come
6 Fragments from the margins: conflicting national and local identities in Scotland
7 Reinventing the nation: British heritage and the bicultural settlement in New Zealand
Part Two: Process
Policy
Practice
8 Taking root in Britain: the process of shaping heritage
9
What a difference a Bay makes: cinema and Welsh heritage
10 History teaching and heritage education: two sides of the same coin
or different currencies?
11 Picture This: the 'black' curator
12 A community of communities
13 Inheriting diversity: archiving the past
14 Keep the flags flying: World Cup 2002
football and the remaking of Englishness
Afterword: 'Strolling spectators' and 'practical Londoners': remembering the imperial past