Heritage Movements in Asia

Ali Mozaffari is a Fellow of the Australian Research Council (DECRA) with the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Melbourne. Through his research, Mozaffari seeks to understand the uses of the past in contemporary discourses of heritage and built environment in Iran and West Asia. His publications include Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place (IB Tauris 2014) and World Heritage in Iran; Perspectives on Pasargadae (Routledge 2016)

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Foreword

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Negotiation, Strategic Action and the Production of Heritage

Ali Mozaffari and Tod Jones



Chapter 1. Understanding Heritage Activism: Learning from Social Movement Studies

Tod Jones, Ali Mozaffari, and James M. Jasper



Chapter 2. ‘The Past is Always New’: A Framework for Understanding the Centrality of Social Media to Contemporary Heritage Movements

Tod Jones, Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus Salim



Chapter 3. The Exemplary Foreigner: Cultural Heritage Activism in Regional China

Gary Sigley



Chapter 4. Heritage Activism in Singapore

Terence Chong



Chapter 5. Riverscape as Biocultural Heritage: A Local Indigenous Social Movement Contests a National Park in Nepal

Sudeep Jana Thing



Chapter 6. Heritage for Whom? Caste and Contestation Among Sri Lanka’s Dumbara Rata Weavers

Aimée Douglas



Chapter 7. Heritage Activism and the Media (Framing) in Iran

Ali Mozaffari