Cultures and Globalization: Heritage, Memory and Identity(The Cultures and Globalization Series)

′This volume of one of the most comprehensive in the field. Its three themes are critical for the study of culture and globalization with its condensation of space, time and memory. Exploring the intersection between these three processes, the essays are learned, deeply researched and insightful, and the comparative range is impressive. The volume is certain to become a standard reference text for scholars and the general reader alike′ - Professor Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, The Open University Heritage, memory and identity are closely connected keywords of our time, each endowed with considerable rhetorical power. Different human groups define certain objects and practices as ′heritage′; they envision heritage to reflect some form of collective memory, either lived or imagined; and they combine both to construct cultural identities. Today, the three terms raise conjoined issues of practice, policy and politics in an increasingly globalized world. Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of contestation, and human rights.

Table of Contents:
Foreword - Pierre Nora Introduction - Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Dacia Viejo-Rose and Helmut K. Anheier PART ONE: CONFIGURATIONS OF HERITAGE, MEMORY, IDENTITY GLOBAL APPROACHES The Role of Narratives in Commemoration: Remembering as Mediated Action - James V. Wertsch and Doc M. Billingsley UNESCO and Heritage: Global Doctrine, Global Practice - Yudhishthir Raj Isar Destruction and Reconstruction of Heritage: Impacts on Memory and Identity - Dacia Viejo-Rose The Political Economies of Heritage - Tim Winter Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora - Ien Ang Territorialization and the Politics of Autochthony - Jean-Pierre Warnier Grassroots Memorials as Sites of Heritage Creation - Cristina Sánchez-Carretero and Carmen Ortiz Sites of Conscience: Heritage of and for Human Rights - Liz Šev?enko ′Not Just a Place′: Culture Heritage and the Environment - Benjamin Morris Regional Realities Living Sacred Heritage and ′Authenticity′ in South Asia - Jagath Weerasinghe A Contested Site of Memory: The Preah Vihear Temple - Aurel Croissant and Paul W. Chambers Memory and Identity as Elements of Heritage Tourism in Southern Africa - Susan Keitumetse, Laura McAtackney and Gobopaone Senata Multiple Heritages, Multiple Identities: The Southwest Indian Ocean - Rosabelle Boswell Remembering and Forgetting Communist Cultural Production - Dragan Klaic Post-socialist Recollections: Identity and Memory in Former Yugoslavia - Zala Volcic Contemporary Creativity and Heritage in Latin America - Lucina Jiménez López Fields and Issues The Manipulation of Memory and Heritage in Museums of Migration - Julie Thomas Heritage, Memory, Debris: Sulukule, Don′t Forget - Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins Knowing the City: Migrants Negotiating Materialities in Istanbul - Yael Navaro-Yashin Divided Memories, Contested Histories: The Shifting Landscape in Japan - Akiko Hashimoto Memorialization and the Rwandan Genocide: The Use of Theatre - Ananda Breed Narrating Shared Identity - Brian Schiff, Carolina Porto de Andrade and Mathilde Toulemonde Listening Voices: On Actualizing Memories - Esther Shalev-Gerz Commentaries Intangibles: Culture, Heritage and Identity - Henrietta L. Moore From the Tower of Babel to the Ivory Tower - David Lowenthal PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES

About the Author :
Helmut K. Anheier, PhD, is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA′s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations.  He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations - Theory, Management, Policy (London: Routledge, 2014), A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols, Sage, 2012).  He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School´s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press, 2013-), and currently working on projects relating to indicator research, social innovation, and success and failure in philanthropy. Yudhishthir Raj Isar is an independent analyst, advisor and public speaker who straddles different worlds of cultural theory, experience and practice. He is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American University of Paris and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. He has also been maître de conference at Sciences Po, Paris. Professor Isar is co-editor of the Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE). He is a trustee of civil society cultural organisations and consultant to international organisations and foundations and Past President of Culture Action Europe. Earlier, at UNESCO, where he served from 1973 to 2002, he was notably Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development and Director of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture.

Review :
This volume is of one of the most comprehensive in the field. Its three themes are critical for the study of culture and globalization with its condensation of space, time and memory. Heritage is the things from the past which people consider worth conserving and memorialising. Memory is the selective recall of significant cultural values and practices, especially in the context of migration and diaspora-formation. Identities are the self-definitions which individuals and groups construct for themselves and which heritage and memory have helped to shape. The essays explore the intersection between these three processes. They are learned, deeply researched and insightful, and the comparative range is impressive. The volume is certain to become a standard reference text for scholars and the general reader alike Stuart Hall Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University Anyone interested in the meaning of trans-national cultural life needs to read this book. As these essays disclose, the collective which remembers collectively today is now composed of men and women whose lives and families fragment with dizzying speed. That is why the terms memory, identity, and heritage matter so much. As a guide for the perplexed, this powerful assembly of essays contributes more than any other I know to disclosing and clarifying the complex spatial and temporal interactions governing cultural practices no longer confined to the nation state Jay Winter Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University