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  • Creole Cultures, Vol. 1

    Safeguarding Creole Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Violet Cuffy, Jane Carr ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection considers the significance of Creole cultures within current, changing global contexts. With a particular focus on post-colonial Small Island Developing States, it brings together perspectives from academics, policy makers and practitioners including those based in Dominica, St Lucia, Seychelles and Mauritius. Together they provide a rich exploration of issues that arise in ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Seductions of Place

    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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  • 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

    $28.49 USD

  • Food, Foodways And Foodscapes: Culture, Community And Consumption In Post-colonial Singapore

    by Lily Lee Lee Kong, Vineeta Sinha ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    This fascinating and insightful volume introduces readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. It demonstrates how the food we consume, the ways in which we acquire and prepare it, the company we keep as we cook and eat, and our preferences and practices are all revealing of a larger economic, social, cultural and political world, both historically and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Heritage Tourism

    by Hyung Yu Park ...
    Heritage tourism has become an increasingly significant component of the global tourism industry, particularly in countries striving to diversify away from sea, sand and sun. This growth has had profound influences on the presentation and representation of both tangible and intangible heritage within tourism context. The concept of heritage continues to evolve with its fast-changing political, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • 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

    $31.49 USD

  • Fishing in Contested Waters

    Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj

    by Sarah King ...
    After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours and the Canadian government. Over the next two years, boats, cottages, and a sacred grove were burned, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Peter Davis, Michelle Stefano ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Heritage Studies

    Methods and Approaches

    Edited by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, John Carman ...
    This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA. The challenge that the collection makes explicit is that Heritage ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities

    by Bryony Onciul, Elizabeth Dale Pishief, Evita Busa, Gregory Ashworth, Gregory Ramshaw, Helen Graham, Helen Tully, John Everard Tunbridge, Julian Hartley, Justin Sikora0, Michelle L. Stefano1, Nicole King3, Philipp Schorch4, Shatha Abu-Khafajah5, Wayne Ngata6, Ashley Colleen Minner8, Bernadette Lynch9, Billie Lythberg0, Carl Hogsden1, Conal McCarthy2 ...
    Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term "meaningful community engagement" betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings. Who is a community? How can they engage with heritage and why would they want to? How do communities ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage

    by Michelle L. Stefano, D Jared Bowers, Daniella Trimboli, Elaine Müller, Ewa Bergdahl, George Abungu, Gerard Corsane, Harriet Deacon, Kate Hennessy0, Leontine Meijer Van Mensch1, Lyn Leader-Elliot2, Professor Peter Davis4, Marilena Alivizatou5, Maurizio Maggi6, Paula Assuncao dos Santos7, Peter Van Mensch8, Richard MacKinnon9, Shaher Rababeh0, Shatha Abu-Khafajah1, Susan Keitumetse2, Sylvie Grenet3, Vasant Hari Bedekar4, Alexandra Denes5, Alissandra Cummins6, Andrew Dixey7, Aron Mazel8, Christian Hottin9, Christina Kreps0 ...
    Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). However, the increased recognition of intangible heritage has brought to light its undervalued status within the museum and heritage sector, and raised questions about safeguarding ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cities in Asia by and for the People

    Edited by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, Rita Padawangi ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re ... Read more

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