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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pierpaolo De GiosaPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press ISBN: 9789463725026ISBN 10: 9463725024 Pages: 306 Publication Date: 01 July 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgements Starter: Into a World Heritage City 1 A Cityscape Below the Winds World Heritage on the Ground On Melaka Fieldwork in and Beyond Melaka Outline of the Chapters 2 The Heritage Affairs: Mouse-Deer, White Elephants, and Watchdogs Antiquities: The Beginning Museumification and Replication Projects of a Developmentalist State 'Where There is Sugar, There Are Ants!' Restructuring National Heritage Society and the Heritage Affairs A Multilayered Heritage Haze 3 UNESCO and the City Tentative Steps: World Heritage Ambitions The Hybrid State of Nomination The State Party of Inscription The Negeri of Conservation Learning in the World Heritage Arena 4 Melakan Row Houses from the Ground Up Row Houses of Old Melaka: A Background Forsaken Buildings: The Post-war Period Revaluation: From RUMAH Kedai to Rumah KEDAI Housing Heritage: Some Approaches to Conservation Façadomy of Private World Heritage Properties The Malleability of Conservation Rules What State of Conservation for the Row Houses? 5 Divide and Brand: Public Space, Politics, and Tourism 'To Visit Historic Melaka Means to Visit Malaysia' Branding Streets in the Consociational Way Jonker Street and Walk A Walk for Cari Makan 'We Don't Need a Harmony Street, We Are the City of Harmony!' A Political Tsunami in Jonker Street Politicized Heritage 6 A Melakan Ancestral Village Beyond World Heritage The Chetti Community: A Background The Properties of the Ancestors The Making of a Kampung Warisan 'We Are Sitting on a Gold Mine!' The Kampungscape and The High-rise 'See You on the Thirteenth Floor!' What World Heritage Thresholds Do 7 Epilogue of a Blessing and a Curse Ethnographies of World Heritage Cities A Transnational Mis(s-)Understanding Topographies of World Heritage Exclusions Postscript: Inheriting the Cityscape in the Age of Hope? Bibliography IndexReviews[...] this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on UNESCO heritage making processes and politics, highlighting it as 'both a blessing and a curse' (p. 274). [...] the book already gives much food for thought on global heritage making in a Southeast Asian city, paving the way for others to then take up these follow-up questions. - Hamzah Muzaini, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 43, Iss. 2 [...] this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on UNESCO heritage making processes and politics, highlighting it as 'both a blessing and a curse' (p. 274). [...] the book already gives much food for thought on global heritage making in a Southeast Asian city, paving the way for others to then take up these follow-up questions. - Hamzah Muzaini, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 43, Iss. 2 The author's approach is to explore the issues from the ground up. He has combined considerable skill at sifting and analyzing documents with a remarkable talent, and sensitivity, for locating and interviewing a diverse array of people who are impacted by or actively engaged in the events. The result is a valuable contribution to the ethnography and the continuously unfolding history of Melaka. - Jerry Dennerline, JMBRAS, Vol. 95, Pt. 2 Author InformationPierpaolo De Giosa is a social anthropologist and former member of the research group ‘The Global Political Economy of Cultural Heritage’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. His research interests lie at the intersection of urban studies and critical heritage studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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