Critical perspectives on cultural memory and heritage : construction, transformation and destruction - Apaydin, Veysel (UCL Press, 2020)
Part I: Conceptualizing Cultural Memory and Heritage. The interlinkage of cultural memory, heritage and discourses of construction, transformation and destruction -- Part II: Urban Heritage, Development, Transformation and Destruction. Mega-structural violence: considering African literary perspectives on infrastructure, modernity and destruction ; Competing for the past: the London 2012 Olympic Games, archaeology, and the 'wasteland' ; Covert erasure and agents of change in the heritage city ; Heritage, memory and social justice: reclaiming space and identity ; Amnesia by design: building and rebuilding in a Mediterranean small island state ; Vanishing heritage, materialising memory: construction, destruction and social action in contemporary Madrid -- Part III: Indigenous Heritage and Destruction. Considering the denigration and destruction of Indigenous heritage as violence ; Indigenous Latino heritage: destruction, invisibility, appropriation, revival, survivance ; Rescuing' the ground from under their feet? Contract archaeology and human rights violations in the Brazilian Amazon ; Order and disorder: Indigenous Australian cultural heritages and the case of settler-colonial ambivalence -- Part IV: Conflicts, Violence, War and Destruction. Cultural memory as a mechanism for community cohesion: the case study of Dayr Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Qaryatayn, Syria ; Bosnia and the destruction of identity ; 'Bombing Pompeii!!! Why not the Pyramids?' Myths and memories of the Allied bombing of Pompeii, August-September 1943 -- Part V: Heritage, Identity and Destruction. Reclaiming the past as a matter of social justice: African American heritage, representation and identity in the United States ; Alternating cycles of the politics of forgetting and remembering the past in Taiwan ; A glimpse into the crystal ball: how do we select the memory of the future? -- Part VI: Epilogue. 'Cultural heritage is concerned with the future'. A critical epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Collective memory; Cultural property