Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building

Herausgeber: Jenkins, Tiffany

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines political interventions through cultural methods, the 'soft' side of statebuilding, such as the preservation and promotion of certain heritage, monument building, and the repatriation of human remains and artefacts to communities in the name of making reparations for past atrocities. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781138793569
• ISBN-10: 1138793566
• Artikelnr.: 40546547

Autorenporträt

Tiffany Jenkins is a sociologist and cultural commentator. Her research examines conflicts over cultural property and concepts of cultural value. She is the Culture Section co-editor of Sociology Compass, a regular broadcaster and contributor to the national press. http: //tiffanyjenkinsinfo.wordpress.com/.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Reconstructing Heritage in the Aftermath of Civil War:
Re-Visioning the Nation and the Implications of International Involvement
3. International Constructions of National Memories: The Aims and Effects
of Foreign Donors' Support for Genocide Remembrance in Rwanda 4. Claims to
the Past. A Critical View of the Arguments Driving Repatriation of Cultural
Heritage and Their Role in Contemporary Identity Politics 5. A
Many-Cornered Thing: The Role of Heritage in Indian Nation-Building