Mobilizing Heritage

"Compelling, energizing, and foundational. Opens up an anthropological orientation, one which is welcome and exhilarating. Lafrenz Samuels’s equally significant introduction of the transnational as a new orientation in heritage studies offers an escape route from the conception of heritage as monopolized by the nation-state."—Denis Byrne, author of Counterheritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia



"Intellectually dazzling and boldly presented. Lafrenz Samuels critically roams over two centuries of political, philosophical, ethical, economic, and social thinking, building a compelling case for cultural heritage as the fulcrum of human rights, social and global justice, democracy, and necessary responses to global climate change. The new indispensable text in critical heritage studies."—Helaine Silverman, coeditor of Heritage in Action: Making the Past in the Present



"Lucid and informed. Through closely argued explorations of the development paradigm, issues of social justice, democratic practice, migration and climate change, Mobilizing Heritage illuminates the many shifts that currently animate heritage theory and practice."—Emma Waterton, coeditor of Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures