Sybille Frank

Wall Memorials and Heritage

The Heritage Industry of Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary international heritage debate and analyzes the transformation of Berlin's former Allied border control point, "Checkpoint Charlie," into a global heritage industry site. This crucial case study demonstrates that an unregulated global heritage industry has risen in Berlin which capitalizes on the internationally very attractive -- but locally and nationally still very painful - heritage of the Berlin Wall. Productively integrating theory with empirical evidence, this innovative book will enrich the international literature on heritage and on its economic and political contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9781138782938
• ISBN-10: 1138782939
• Artikelnr.: 41122344

Autorenporträt

Sybille Frank is Professor in the School of Planning, Department of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Heritage as an Under-Researched Academic Field Part 1:
Theoretical Foundations: The Anglo-American Heritage Debate 1. How it
Began: The Debate on the British Heritage Industry 2. International
Outreach: Heritage as a Global Field of Sociocultural Practice Part 2:
Empirical Findings: The Conflicts around Checkpoint Charlie 3. From
Checkpoint to "Chequepoint": Introduction to the History of and the Diverse
Stakeholders at Checkpoint Charlie 4. First Conflict: From Checkpoint to
"Cheekpoint" 5. Second Conflict: From Checkpoint to "Shockpoint" 6.
Checkpoint Charlie as a Victims' Place and the Impossibility of Learning
from Disney 7. Disneyfication as Cultural Combat Term 8. Pitfalls and
Loopholes of Local Governance Conclusion: The Unregulated Formation of a
Heritage Industry at Checkpoint Charlie