Politics of Scale

Tuuli Lähdesmäki is Associate Professor of Art History at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Lähdesmäki specializes in heritage, culture, and identity politics particularly in the context of the European Union.

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