Overview
- Examines how the concept of heritage provides a focal point for young nation-states to claim identity
- Argues that heritage has become increasingly politicised, and a means to privilege
- Challenges the idea of heritage as primarily or simply an “object” or “site”, and re-theorises heritage as a cultural process that makes and remakes space, environment, landscape, place, memory, gender and identity
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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(Re)Telling Museum and Community Stories
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(Re)Mapping Multicultural and Folklore Heritage
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The Small Town, Nostalgia, and the Environment
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About this book
This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of “museumising” heritage, the book then addresses a broad range of issues involving multicultural and folklore heritage, the small town, nostalgia and the environment, and transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. In so doing it delivers an intervention in received ways of talking about and “doing” heritage in academic as well as state and public discourse in Malaysia, which are largely dominated by perspectives that do not sufficiently engage with the cultural complexities and sociopolitical implications of heritage. The book also critically explores the politics and dynamics of heritage production in Malaysia to contest “Malaysian heritage” as a stable narrative, exploring both its cogency and contingency, and builds on a deep engagement with a non-western society in the service of “provincialising” critical heritage studies, with the broader goal of contributing to Malaysian studies.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Heritage in Malaysia
Book Subtitle: Sites, Histories, Identities
Editors: Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1494-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1493-7Published: 27 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1496-8Published: 27 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1494-4Published: 26 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Sociology