Heritage and Democracy

Name: Heritage and Democracy
Author: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
ISBN: 9780813069623

Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration

Edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Jon D. Daehnke

Published by: University Press of Florida

Series: Cultural Heritage Studies

This volume examines cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and democratic practices, highlighting how democratic politics and cultural heritage shape, impact, and depend upon one another.

294 Pages6.00 × 9.0014 b/w illustrations, 3 tables, notes, bibliography, index

Hardcover
9780813069623
Published: May 23, 2023

$90.00

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9780813070360
Published: May 23, 2023

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Description
Authors
Praise
Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword: The Democratic Process in Heritage Work

Part 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Jon D. Daehnke

Part 2. Indigenous Heritage and Settler-Colonial Democratic States

Chapter 2. Unsettling Democratic Heritage: Ownership, False Equivalences, and Challenges to Indigenous Heritage in the United States
Jon D. Daehnke

Chapter 3. Whose Rights? Whose Heritage? Policy Changes in Canada
Erin A. Hogg, Chelsea H. Meloche, George P. Nicholas, and John R. Welch

Part 3. Political Economies of Democracy: The Heritage of Labor and Neoliberal Capitalism

Chapter 4. Heritage in the Service of Neoliberalism: The “With Liberty and Justice for All” Exhibition at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
Stacey L. Camp

Chapter 5. Heritage Building and the Ethnic Divide in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania
Paul A. Shackel

Part 4. Multicultural and Postcolonial Democracies: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion

Chapter 6. Truth, Reconciliation, and the Heritage of Forced Removal: A Case Study of a Johannesburg Suburb
Jasmine Reid

Chapter 7. The Migrant Trail Walk: Mobilizing Cultural Heritage and Interrupting Dominant Narratives for the Rights of Immigrants
Magda E. Mankel

Chapter 8. Excavating Knowledge: Transformative Critical Heritage Pedagogies and Participatory Democracy at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana)
Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann and Dorothy Ann Engmann

Chapter 9. Public Reason after Charlottesville: Heritage, Memes, and the Far Right
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Bobbie Foster Bhusari

Part 5. Agency and Democratic Practice across Multiple Scales of Governance

Chapter 10. Democratic Heritage and Polycentric Governance
Peter G. Gould

Chapter 11. Controlling the Facade: Resistance to Heritage Protections and Government Interventions in Post-Conflict Quintana Roo
Kasey Diserens Morgan

Chapter 12. Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Democratic Participation and the UNESCO Creative Cities Network
Ellen J. Platts

Part 6. Conclusion