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Heritage As Aid and Diplomacy in Asia

Name: Heritage As Aid and Diplomacy in Asia
Brand: ISEAS
SKU: 9789814881159
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Edited by Philippe Peycam, Shu-Li Wang, Hui Yew-Foong, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Imprint: ISEAS
Release Date: September 28, 2020
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
Weight: 470 g
Pages: 347

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Drawing from eleven rich case studies in Asia, this book is the first to explore how heritage is used as aid and diplomacy by various agencies to produce knowledge, power, values and geopolitics in the global heritage regime. It represents an interdisciplinary endeavour to feature a diversity of situations where cultural heritage is invoked or promoted to serve interests or visions that supposedly transcend local or national paradigms. This collection of articles thus not only considers processes of "UNESCO-ization" of heritage (or their equivalents when conducted by other international or national actors) by exploring the diplomatic and developmentalist politics of heritage-making at play and its transformational impact on societies. It also describes how local and outside states often collude with international mechanisms to further their interests at the expense of local communities and of citizens' rights. Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asiaexplores the following questions: Under the current international heritage regime, what are the mechanisms of-and the manipulations that take place within-ideological, political and cultural transmissions? What is heritage diplomacy and how can we conceptualize it? How do the complicated history and colonial past of Asia constitute the current practices of heritage diplomacy and shape heritage discourse in Asia? How do international organizations, nation-states, NGOs, heritage brokers and experts contribute to the history of the global heritage discourse? How has the flow of global knowledge been transferred and transformed? And how does the global hierarchy of cultural values function?

Philippe Peycam is Director, International Institute for Asian Studies Shu-Li Wang is Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Hui Yew-Foong is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University; and Visiting Senior Fellow, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and Chair Professor of Hakka Studies, National Central University, Taiwan.

Preliminary pages 1. Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asia: An Introduction, by Shu-Li Wang, Philippe Peycam, Hui Yew-Foong, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao 2. World Heritage and WikiLeaks: Territory, Trade and Temples on the Thai-Cambodian Border, by Lynn Meskell 3. Heritage Making - Aid For Whom? The Genealogy of Expert Reports in the Hands of Politics and Their Impact in the Case of Preah Vihear, by Brigitta Hauser-Schaeublin 4. The International Coordinating Committee for Angkor: A World Heritage Site as an Arena of Competition, Connivance and State(s) Legitimation, by Philippe Peycam 5. Legacies of Cultural Philanthropy in Asia, by Mary S Zurbuchen 6. To Help or Make Chaos? An Ethnography of Dutch Expertise in Postcolonial Indonesia, by Lauren Yapp 7. Heritage Conservation as a Tool for Cultural Diplomacy: Implications for the Sino-Japanese Relationship, by Victor Chi-Ming Chan 8. From Ideological Alliance to Identity Clash: The Historical Origin of the Sino-Korean Goguryeo Controversies, by Anran Wang 9. Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology in Afghanistan: A Case Study of Bamiyan, by J Eva Meharry 10. Disappearing Voices: The Politics and Practice of Safeguarding Kunqu Opera in the People's Republic of China, by Min Yen Ong 11. Neoliberalizing Heritage: International Agencies and the Local Dynamics of Heritage Conservation in Bali, Indonesia, by Agung Wardana 12. Heritage Conservation as Trickle-Down Development, by Jayde Lin Roberts Index

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