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Heritage in Multicultural Times

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Heritage seems to be concrete and precise; at least, that is the lesson we learned from decades of relating the inherited past with the nation. Yet, the rhetoric of the homogeneous nation-state was replaced some while ago by that of the heterogeneous multicultural state. In multicultural times the meaning of ‘heritage’ is not that clear, although a sense of plurality is pervasive. Yet, in this chapter I will not try to fix and stabilize its meaning; rather, by interpolating the contexts in which heritage unfolds and where it intervenes, I will highlight its relationship with governmentality, humanism and the market. Further, I will explore the gains of destabilizing the dominant, multicultural conception of heritage, especially by positioning alternative conceptions of time, past, ancestors and life.

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  1. University of Western Sydney, Australia

    Emma Waterton (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  2. York St John University, UK

    Steve Watson (Professor) (Professor)

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Gnecco, C. (2015). Heritage in Multicultural Times. In: Waterton, E., Watson, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137293565_17

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