World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia

A Cityscape below the Winds

Pierpaolo De Giosa (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041190905 (ISBN)

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World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka analyses how the World Heritage 'label' is being used by different actors to generate new economic revenues and to attract investment for large-scale real estate development projects. In doing so, it reveals the complex and often contradictory stories behind heritage designations in urban milieus.

Already celebrated as a busy entrepôt and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with George Town) since 2008 on the strength of its multi-ethnic and multi-religious urban fabric. Yet, contrary to the expectations of heritage experts and aficionados, the global mission of safeguarding cultural heritages has become a tumultuous issue on the ground. In World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds how the World Heritage 'label' has been, and continue to be used by different actors, such as international organizations, nation states, and society at large, to generate new economic revenues as well as to attract tourists and investments for large-scale real estate development projects is analyzed, revealing the complex and often contradictory stories behind heritage designations in urban milieus.

Pierpaolo De Giosa is a social anthropologist and former member of the research group ‘The Global Political Economy of Cultural Heritage’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. His research interests lie at the intersection of urban studies and critical heritage studies.

Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Starter: Into a World Heritage City, 1. A Cityscape Below the Winds, 2. The Heritage Affairs, 3. UNESCO and the City, 4. Melakan Row Houses from the Ground Up, 5. Divide and Brand: Public Space, Politics, and Tourism, 6. A Melakan Ancestral Village, 7. Epilogue, Postscript, Bibliography, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Asian Heritages
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781041190905 / 9781041190905
Zustand	Neuware