New Approach to Cultural Heritage: Profiling Discourse Across Borders [Paperback]

This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict. This book is a collection of heritage studies from a critical perspective as a product of the 2018 ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies) Conference in Hangzhou, the largest conference of its kind in Asia. The contributors cover a wide spectrum of issues in heritage studies, such as heritage management, accessibility to heritage, heritage conservation and heritage policy, and heritage representation. It also examines the various contexts within which heritage emerges and how heritage is constructed within that context. Analyses are based on not only representations of heritage but also on the performativity. Explorations touch upon community involvement, landscape history, childrens literature, endangered food, architecture, advertisement, allotment garden, and gender and visual art. As heritage has always been a locus of contested verities, the book offers a variegated approach to heritage studies. It provides students and scholars new perspectives on heritage study. 

1. Accessibility of Castles: Reality, Imagination and Good Practices for Memory and Dissemination.- 2. Agroecological Heritage: Elucidating the Place of Cycads in Indigenous Mesoamerican Epistemologies.- 3. Relationships Between Urban Anthropology and Cultural Heritage in S?o Paulo, Brazil.- 4. Mosques and Modernism in the Three Phases of the Turkish Republic.- 5. The Grey Area of Gender in Intangible Cultural Heritage: Analysis of Japan's Inscribed Elements on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.- 6. The Crafting of a New Act on the Protection of Cultural Property- the German Case.- 7. Advertisement: Construction and Communication of Meló¶