Politics of Scale: New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies - Paperback

by Tuuli Lähdesmäki (Editor), Suzie Thomas (Editor), Yujie Zhu (Editor)

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.

Author Biography

Yujie Zhu is Associate Professor at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University, Australia.