World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia

Pierpaolo De Giosa is a social anthropologist and former member of the research group ‘The Global Political Economy of Cultural Heritage’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. His research interests lie at the intersection of urban studies and critical heritage studies.

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Acknowledgements
Starter: Into a World Heritage City
1 A Cityscape Below the Winds
World Heritage on the Ground
On Melaka
Fieldwork in and Beyond Melaka
Outline of the Chapters
2 The Heritage Affairs: Mouse-Deer, White Elephants, and Watchdogs
Antiquities: The Beginning
Museumification and Replication
Projects of a Developmentalist State
'Where There is Sugar, There Are Ants!'
Restructuring National Heritage
Society and the Heritage Affairs
A Multilayered Heritage Haze
3 UNESCO and the City
Tentative Steps: World Heritage Ambitions
The Hybrid State of Nomination
The State Party of Inscription
The Negeri of Conservation
Learning in the World Heritage Arena
4 Melakan Row Houses from the Ground Up
Row Houses of Old Melaka: A Background
Forsaken Buildings: The Post-war Period
Revaluation: From RUMAH Kedai to Rumah KEDAI
Housing Heritage: Some Approaches to Conservation
Façadomy of Private World Heritage Properties
The Malleability of Conservation Rules
What State of Conservation for the Row Houses?
5 Divide and Brand: Public Space, Politics, and Tourism
'To Visit Historic Melaka Means to Visit Malaysia'
Branding Streets in the Consociational Way
Jonker Street and Walk
A Walk for Cari Makan
'We Don't Need a Harmony Street, We Are the City of Harmony!'
A Political Tsunami in Jonker Street
Politicized Heritage
6 A Melakan Ancestral Village Beyond World Heritage
The Chetti Community: A Background
The Properties of the Ancestors
The Making of a Kampung Warisan
'We Are Sitting on a Gold Mine!'
The Kampungscape and The High-rise
'See You on the Thirteenth Floor!'
What World Heritage Thresholds Do
7 Epilogue of a Blessing and a Curse
Ethnographies of World Heritage Cities
A Transnational Mis(s-)Understanding
Topographies of World Heritage Exclusions
Postscript: Inheriting the Cityscape in the Age of Hope?
Bibliography
Index