Overview
Narrating Heritage critically examines the links among heritage, rights and social justice. This book brings important original ethnographic research and unique case studies together in a coherent and cohesive way to examine patterns and differences of approaches to heritage. It exposes discourses of the uses and abuses of heritage, and provides narratives of persistence, demonstrating the importance of heritage in securing human rights and social justice. Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and economic heritage discourses, making explicit the relationship between cultural and natural heritage. This book expands on these discourses by examining the role of violence in heritage, expanding on the concepts of both direct and slow violence. It situates heritage discourse within the sphere of human rights and lays out redistribution, recognition and representation as dimensions of social justice in a heritage context. The case studies in this volume explore multiple themes, from the links between cultural performance and the construction of collective identity and sense of belonging, to the roles of education, learning about other cultures and nationalist use of education. They also discuss the relationship between construction of heritage, space, and access and exclusion, as well as the impact of authoritarianism and heavy neoliberal policies on heritage making.
Full Product Details
Author: Dr Veysel Apaydin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350334632
ISBN 10: 1350334634
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Apaydin should be commended for giving a voice to those who are often silenced throughout the communities covered here. This is especially noted in his vivid descriptions and poignant narratives. Libraries with heritage collections, especially those focusing on political struggles and minority groups, should acquire this. * CHOICE *
Author Information
Veysel Apaydin is Associate Professor in Art, Design and Museology at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UK. He is the author of Heritage, Education and Social Justice (2022), and the editor of Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage (2020) and Shared Knowledge, Shared Power (2018).
