Pluralising Pasts

Heritage, Identity and Place in Multicultural Soci

• Author(s): Gregory Ashworth, Brian Graham, John Tunbridge,
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Pages: 236
• ISBN_10: 0745322859
  ISBN_13: 9780745322858
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Antiques & Collectibles / General , Art / Museum Studies , History / Europe / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Public Policy / Cultural Policy , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: heritage and plurality -- Heritage -- Identity and place -- Heritage, identity and place -- The complicating of heritage -- Structure of the book -- Part I: The conceptual context -- 2. Culture and plural identities -- Plural identities and multiculturalism -- The contradictions and criticisms of multiculturalism -- Migration and hybridity -- Beyond multiculturalism -- Plurality, culture and power -- Summary -- 3. Towards pluralising pasts: theories and concepts of heritage -- A world of heritage: heritage in the world -- The uses of heritage -- Multiple nature of heritage -- Towards pluralising pasts? -- 4. Place, identity and heritage -- The boundedness of identity -- Territoriality and landscape: does place identity matter? -- The creation and management of place identity: the Belvedere programme -- Synthesis -- Part II: A typology of plural societies -- 5. Nature and types of plural society -- Assimilatory, integrationist or single-core models -- Melting pot models -- Core+ models -- Pillar models -- Salad bowl/rainbow/mosaic models -- Limits and uses of a typology of models -- Part III: Heritage in plural societies -- 6. Heritage in assimilation models -- Assimilation policies -- The heritage instruments -- The treatment of non-core heritage -- Conclusions -- 7. Heritage in melting pot models -- Settler societies -- Postcolonial melting pot experiments -- The melting pot as social engineering -- Change and stability -- 8. Heritage in core+ models -- A classification of core+ models -- Core+ models in long-established societies -- Core+ models in postcolonial nation-building -- Change -- 9. Heritage in pillar models -- The archetypal case of the Netherlands -- Apartheid South Africa -- The temporary case of Canada