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Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present

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Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present is a ground-breaking book series that examines the dynamics of heritage and memory from transnational, interdisciplinary, and integrated approaches. Monographs and edited volumes critically interrogate the politics of heritage and dynamics of memory, as well as the theoretical implications of landscapes and mass violence, nationalism and ethnicity, heritage preservation and conservation, archaeology, material culture and (dark) tourism, diaspora and colonial memory, the power of aesthetics and the art of absence and forgetting, mourning and performative re-enacments in the present.

3 Series Titles


Palestine in Transition Frank Scholten’s Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period

Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten’s Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
June 30, 2026

Frank Scholten set out to produce an illustrated Bible, instead returning with captivating documentation of the modernist transformations and intimate views of Palestine from 1921-1923. He documented Palestine as the British Mandate was formally being established, with a taxonomical and ...

Klaverjas and the Hidden Sporting Heritage of South Africa Card Games, Community, and Black History

Klaverjas and the Hidden Sporting Heritage of South Africa: Card Games, Community, and Black History

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Hendrik Snyders, Leonard Jacobs
May 29, 2026

As a collective, klaverjas players form a distinct community of practice with a unique organisational discourse, language, and set of socialisation practices. Given its prevalence within South Africa’s Black communities, klawerjas, as it is locally known, is perceived as both the traditional game ...

Rethinking the Greek Campaign to Repatriate the Parthenon Marbles Problems and Complexities with Contested Cultural Heritage

Rethinking the Greek Campaign to Repatriate the Parthenon Marbles: Problems and Complexities with Contested Cultural Heritage

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By James Beresford
May 29, 2026

Offering an incisive examination into aspects of the controversy regarding ownership of the marble sculptures infamously removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the early nineteenth century, this volume challenges long-held scholarly assumptions frequently made in support of the return of the ...

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