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  • - Historical Lessons for Modern Development Planning
    af Ambe J. Njoh
    686,95 - 1.595,95 kr.

    The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. This book addresses issues which might provide some insights into the matter.

  • - Counter-mapping Cultural Heritage
    af Professor Brian Graham
    1.883,95 kr.

    Taking the significant Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Council of Europe 2005) as it's starting point, this book presents pragmatic views on the rise of the local and the everyday within cultural heritage discourse and it examines ways in which authorised or 'expert' views of heritage can be challenged.

  • - Perspectives on Visuality and the Past
    af Steve Watson
    734,95 kr.

    The 'visual' has long played a crucial and formative role in structuring the experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. This edited collection explores the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage within its broader social and political context.

  • - Ruins and Imperial Legacies
    af Joao Sarmento
    686,95 - 1.870,95 kr.

    Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence. This book examines how this global but chameleonic network of forts can offer insights into both the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.

  • - Visions of Space, Traditions of Place
    af Julia Brauch & Anna Lipphardt
    723,95 kr.

    Time and place play the central role in our understanding of Jewish civilisation, while place and space seem to be secondary categories at best. This anthology focuses on the manifold approaches to the perception and experience of Jewish places and hence sheds light on the diverse processes of Jewish place-making.

  • - New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape
    af Dr Yvonne Whelan
    610,95 kr.

    Explores the overlapping and often complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. This book provides an overview of different approaches in the study of these relationships, combined with evidence from Ireland, England, Scotland and the United States.

  • - Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity
     
    1.788,95 kr.

    Seeks to illustrate the validity of multiple depictions of the Irish past, showing how scrutiny of heritage practices and meanings is so essential for illuminating our understanding of the present.

  • - Locating Personal Pasts
    af Jeanne Kay Guelke
    706,95 - 1.971,95 kr.

    Highlights the tools and information sources used by geographers and their applications to family history research. This book examines family history as a socio-cultural practice, including the activities of tourism, archival research, and DNA testing.

  • af Argyro Loukaki
    715,95 - 1.886,95 kr.

    Using illustrations of the Greek monuments and ruins, this book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek iconography for the Western world. It examines how Greek monuments are perceived as sublime national symbols and as a mythological and archetypal reference against which Western culture is measured.