Routledge Studies in Heritage
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Traditional Medical Knowledge: Safeguarding Healing and Medical Practices in a Globalized World
1st Edition
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By Lucia Candelise, Serena Bindi
November 18, 2025
This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world. The chapters within this book explore key themes such as the paradox ...
Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage
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By Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Johanna Turunen, Andrei Terian, Renaud Garcia-Bardidia
September 30, 2025
This book explores the concepts and practices of participation and community engagement in cultural heritage, examining the impact of the participatory turn in the heritage sector and the key opportunities and challenges it presents. Participation has become a widely used umbrella term in the ...
Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power: Altai Activism in Post-Soviet Siberia
1st Edition
By Gertjan Plets
May 06, 2025
Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power examines the politicization of heritage and heritage conflicts in Siberia. In so doing, it challenges the idea that heritage is created by the state and instead argues that heritage creates the state. Building upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken ...
Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets
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By Lizette Gradén, Tom O'Dell
May 06, 2025
Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven ...
Heritage, Authority and Power: Understanding Theory Through Practice
1st Edition
By Barbara Wood
April 23, 2025
Heritage, Authority and Power - Understanding Theory Through Practice examines who holds power and authority in heritage, the connection with specialist knowledge and what the shifting nature of these attributes means for concepts of authenticity. Drawing on interviews with practitioners working ...
Assessing the Social Values of Heritage: Methods in Theory and Practice
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By Elizabeth Robson
March 27, 2025
Assessing the Social Values of Heritage considers how social values can be better understood and incorporated into the day-to-day work of managing and conserving the historic environment. Drawing together major strands of thinking from critical heritage studies, ethnography and social research, and...
Alternative Economies of Heritage: Sustainable, Anti-Colonial and Creative Approaches to Cultural Inheritance
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By Denise Thwaites, Bethaney Turner, Tracy Ireland
February 25, 2025
Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the ‘work’ of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the reductive economies of colonial capitalism. In a global context of cultural financialisation and ...
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective
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By Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła
September 26, 2024
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the employment of theoretical and methodological multisensory perspectives. An interdisciplinary volume covering a broad range of empirical cases, this book focuses ...
Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry
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By Alia Yunis, Robert Parthesius, NiccolòAcram Cappelletto
September 09, 2024
Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry explores what happens to the heritage and memory of communities that find themselves in contact with the rest of the world when they become UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Written by an interdisciplinary group of emerging scholars and heritage ...
The Return of Cultural Heritage to Latin America: Nationalism, Policy, and Politics in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
1st Edition
By Pierre Losson
September 25, 2023
The Return of Cultural Heritage to Latin America takes a new approach to the question of returns and restitutions. It is the first publication to look at the domestic politics of claiming countries in order to understand who supports the claims and why. Drawing on analysis of articles published ...
Communities and Cultural Heritage: Global Issues, Local Values
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By Valerie Higgins, Diane Douglas
May 30, 2022
Communities and Cultural Heritage explores the relationship between communities, their cultural heritage and the global forces that control most of the world’s wealth and resources in today’s world. Bringing together scholars and heritage practitioners from nine countries, this book contributes to ...
Wall Memorials and Heritage: The Heritage Industry of Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie
1st Edition
By Sybille Frank
January 10, 2018
Analysing the transformation of Berlin’s former Allied border control point, "Checkpoint Charlie," into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate. This crucial case study ...