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  • Heritage is Movement

    Heritage Management and Research in a Diverse and Plural World

    by Tod Jones ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect
    This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It addresses the ways physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes of management, access and care.The book analyzes a critical practice of heritage work oriented to recognizing and collaborating with diverse knowledge holders and their practices of caring for ... Read more

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  • The Pantheon

    From Antiquity to the Present

    The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD 125 on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and engineering. The Pantheon gives an up-to-date account of recent research on the best preserved building in the ... Read more

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  • Heritage Movements in Asia

    Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity

    Edited by Ali Mozaffari, Tod Jones ...
    Series Book 2 - Explorations in Heritage Studies
    Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and ... Read more

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    Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

    Edited by Carolyn Cartier, Alan A Lew ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political ... Read more

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  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Read more

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  • The Truth about Nature

    Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism

    by Bram Büscher ...
    How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous?The Truth about Nature follows environmental actors ... Read more

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  • Tourism, Culture and Development

    Hopes, Dreams and Realities in East Indonesia

    Series Book 12 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Can tourism help a poor remote community to develop? How much does tourism change a village? How can a village have the benefits tourism offers without the problems it can cause? These are the questions that lie at the core of this text. Using an anthropologist’s eye and a high degree of trust, this book uncovers the story of tourism development in two small villages on a remote island of Eastern ... Read more

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  • The Intimate Economies of Bangkok

    Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City

    by Ara Wilson ...
    Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city.The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining ... Read more

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  • Owners of the Map

    Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok

    On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand democratic elections and an end to inequality. Key to this mobilization were motorcycle taxi drivers, who slowed down, filtered, and severed mobility in the area, claiming a prominent role in national politics ... Read more

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  • The Dance That Makes You Vanish

    Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

    Series series Difference Incorporated
    Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, artists, and dancers—were killed, arrested, or disappeared ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education

    Proceedings of the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE 2021), Malang, Indonesia, 11 September 2021

    This book provides a collection of articles resulting from the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE), which was held on 11 September 2021. The Department of History of Malang State University choose "Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education" as the main topic, and elaborates on five subthemes: 1) new trends in historical research; ... Read more

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  • Culture and the Question of Rights

    Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia

    This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting ... Read more

    $25.19 USD