Heritage /

The study of heritage has significantly developed since the 1980s as scholars have adapted, revised, and created innovative approaches to the assessment of how individuals, communities, and nations establish connections with and create representations of the past. This is not a neutral assessment of...

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Main Author: Wilson, Ross, active 2020
Other Authors: Atkinson, Paul, 1947- (Editor), Delamont, Sara, 1947- (Editor), Cernat, Alexandru (Editor), Sakshaug, Joseph W. (Editor), Williams, Richard A., active 2020 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020.
Series:Document and artefacts.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The study of heritage has significantly developed since the 1980s as scholars have adapted, revised, and created innovative approaches to the assessment of how individuals, communities, and nations establish connections with and create representations of the past. This is not a neutral assessment of nostalgia; analyses conducted within heritage studies have demonstrated how the relationships that are formed with a sense of history constitute a key role in issues of power, politics, authority, and identity within contemporary society. Whilst notions of heritage have served as a conservative element, establishing a sense of tradition, the use of dissonant or dissident perspectives on historical eras has been forwarded as a means of undermining structures of control. As such, the examination of heritage reveals issues concerned with the ...
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781529745108
1529745101
9781526421036
1526421038