The Dynamics of Heritage

History, Memory and the Highland Clearances

Laurence Gouriévidis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-0244-2 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the interaction between history and memory and, in particular, on museums as a memory medium, this book deals with the memorialisation of the Highland Clearances over the twentieth century.

There has been much academic interest in the role of museums as places where understanding of the past is shaped and legitimised for a wide and increasingly diverse public. This book focuses on the museum representations of the Highland Clearances - a much neglected aspect of one of the most disputed and politically-charged issues in modern Scottish history. Drawing together a range of inter-disciplinary themes and notions, it considers the cultural legacy of the period, brings to light the socially and historically conditioned meanings and values encapsulated in museum narratives of the Clearances, and shows the significance of collective memory in the negotiations inherent in heritage work. Examining both national and local museums in Scotland and concluding with comparisons with Australian museums of migration, Dynamics of Heritage contributes to our understanding of the processes of heritage construction, and its relationship to issues of memory and other modes of engagement with the past.

Laurence Gouriévidis is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Studies at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France

Contents: Preface; Memory, history and museums; The legacy of the clearances; National and local museums: the structural environment; Museum narratives of the clearances: themes and approaches; Museum interpretations of the clearances: issues and strategies; Museological development and narratives of the clearances; The economics of clearance heritage; The politics of clearance heritage; Conclusion: the dynamics of clearance heritage; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.9.2010
Reihe/Serie	Heritage, Culture and Identity
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10	1-4094-0244-4 / 1409402444
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-0244-2 / 9781409402442
Zustand	Neuware