Laurence Gouriévidis

The Dynamics of Heritage (eBook, ePUB)

History, Memory and the Highland Clearances

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There has been much academic interest in the role of museums as places where understanding of the past is shaped and legitimised for a wide and increasingly diverse public. This book focuses on the museum representations of the Highland Clearances - a much neglected aspect of one of the most disputed and politically-charged issues in modern Scottish history. Drawing together a range of inter-disciplinary themes and notions, it considers the cultural legacy of the period, brings to light the socially and historically conditioned meanings and values encapsulated in museum narratives of the Clearances, and shows the significance of collective memory in the negotiations inherent in heritage work. Examining both national and local museums in Scotland and concluding with comparisons with Australian museums of migration, Dynamics of Heritage contributes to our understanding of the processes of heritage construction, and its relationship to issues of memory and other modes of engagement with the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317035077
• Artikelnr.: 44871292

Autorenporträt

Laurence Gouriévidis is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Studies at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Memory, history and museums
The legacy of the clearances
National and local museums: the structural environment
Museum narratives of the clearances: themes and approaches
Museum interpretations of the clearances: issues and strategies
Museological development and narratives of the clearances
The economics of clearance heritage
The politics of clearance heritage
Conclusion: the dynamics of clearance heritage
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.