Politics of Scale (eBook)

Tuuli Lähdesmäki is an Academy Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland. Lähdesmäki specializes in heritage, culture, and identity politics particularly in the European context.

Suzie Thomas is Professor of Cultural Heritage Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is interested in non-professional and so-called alternative engagements with cultural heritage, ‘dark’ heritage and heritage crime.

Yujie Zhu is a Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. His research focuses on heritage, tourism, memory, religious practices and cultural politics.

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword
David C. Harvey and Ali Mozaffari

Introduction: Heritage and Scale
Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Yujie Zhu and Suzie Thomas

PART I: SCALED CONCEPTUALIZATION OF HERITAGE

Chapter 1. Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China
Yujie Zhu

Chapter 2. The ‘European Significance’ of Heritage: Politics of Scale in EU Heritage Policy Discourse
Tuuli Lähdesmäki and Katja Mäkinen

Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures
Rhiannon Bettivia and Elizabeth Stainforth

PART II: SCALE IN HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES

Chapter 4. Managed Landscapes: The Social Construction of Scale at Angkor
Rowena Butland

Chapter 5. The Politics of Border Heritage: EU’s Cross-Border Cooperation as Scalar Politics in the Spanish-Portuguese Border
María Lois

Chapter 6. Broadening the Scope of Heritage: The Concept of Cultural Environment and Scalar Relations in Finnish Cultural
Environment Policy
Satu Kähkönen and Tuuli Lähdesmäki

PART III: SCALE IN HERITAGE PRACTICES

Chapter 7. Locals, Incomers, Tourists and Gold Diggers: Space, Politics and the ‘Dark Heritage’ Legacy of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
Suzie Thomas

Chapter 8. Becoming Mediterranean: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Klapa Singing in Identity-Building and Nation-Branding
Discourses
Eni Buljubašić and Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Chapter 9. Tuning in to Radio Heritage in Newfoundland
Michael Windover and Hilary Grant

Afterword: The Politics of Scale for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Identification, Ownership and Representation
Kristin Kuutma
Index