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Heritage, Power and Ideology

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The nexus between heritage, power and ideology almost seems self-evident, at least at first sight. Is not heritage, or the announcement of something as heritage, per se ideological — characterized by a highly reductionist recourse to ‘the past’ in order to legitimate current interests and future aspirations of political actors? And is it not a matter of power and control, as David Harvey has paraphrased George Orwell: ‘who controls the present controls the past’ (2008, p. 20)?

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Schramm, K. (2015). Heritage, Power and Ideology. In: Waterton, E., Watson, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137293565_28

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