The politics of heritage
Subtitle: the legacies of "race"
By: edited by Jo Littler and Roshi Naidoo.
Contributors: Littler, Jo, 1972-; Naidoo, Roshi, 1965-
Series: Comedia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Great Britain -- Race relations; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations; Great Britain -- Politics and government
Description: "The Politics of Heritage brings together leading cultural critics, practitioners, policy makers and curators to explore the processes of heritage formation, focusing on issues of 'race' and ethnicity. Analysing both theory and practice, the book is concerned with understanding how 'heritage' changes and develops, and with exploring problems and possibilities for the future."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : British heritage and the legacies of 'race' / Jo Littler; title: Whose heritage? : unsettling 'the heritage', re-imagining the post-nation / Stuart Hall; title: Never mind the buzzwords : 'race', heritage, and the liberal agenda / Roshi Naidoo; title: Commemorating the Holocaust : reconfiguring national identity in the twenty-first century / Sharon McDonald; title: Museums, communities, and the politics of heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke; title: Ghosts : heritage and the shape of things to come / Jonathan Rutherford; title: Fragments from the margins : conflicting national and local identities in Scotland / Sian Jones; title: Reinventing the nation : British heritage and the bicultural settlement in New Zealand / Lynda Dyson; title: Taking root in Britain : the process of shaping heritage / Naseem Khan; title: What a difference a bay makes : cinema and Welsh heritage / Gill Branston; title: History teaching and heritage education : two sides of the same coin, or different currencies? / John Hamer; title: Picture this : the 'Black' curator / Carol Tulloch; title: A community of communities / Jim McGuigan; title: Inheriting diversity : archiving the past / S.I. Martin; title: Keep the flags flying : World Cup 2002, football and the remaking of Englishness / Mark Perryman; title: Afterword: 'strolling spectators' and 'practical Londoners' : remembering the imperial past / Bill Schwarz.