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"Examining cultural heritage within the context of democracy. Cultural heritage is a powerful tool in society, capable of producing both social harms as well as social goods and benefits, which can be distributed unevenly via political channels. Reaching across disciplines and national boundaries, this volume examines cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and democratic practices, including participatory, deliberative, and direct democratic practices. Case studies highlight how democratic politics and cultural heritage shape, impact, and depend upon one another. The rising crisis of democracy across the globe brings these dynamics into sharp relief. The unfinished and fragile nature of democratic politics shines a spotlight on both its shortcomings and its aspirational potential. This is a paradox that heritage practitioners and stakeholders navigate daily, serving as both critics and collaborators of democracy. At the same time that heritage practice embraces participatory approaches, it must also address the challenge of reconciling multiple, often unequal, and frequently incompatible claims for control over heritage. Grappling with democracy's crises also increasingly means recognizing the power of heritage to reinforce or undermine democracy. These essays ask: What are the democratic motives of heritage practice? Why do democracies need heritage? How do the social and cultural referents of heritage infuse democratic practices? Emphasizing the interplay of heritage and democracy in practices and institutions across scales of governance, Heritage and Democracy pinpoints a dynamic that has not been widely examined. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel"-- Provided by publisher.

"This volume examines cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and democratic practices, highlighting how democratic politics and cultural heritage shape, impact, and depend upon one another"-- Provided by publisher.

Cultural heritage studies

Foreword: The Democratic Process in Heritage Work

Part I. Introduction. Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration / Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Jon D. Daehnke

Part II. Indigenous Heritage and Settler-Colonial Democratic States

Unsettling Democratic Heritage: Ownership, False Equivalences, and Challenges to Indigenous Heritage in the United States / Jon D. Daehnke

Whose Rights? Whose Heritage? Policy Changes in Canada / Erin A. Hogg, Chelsea H. Meloche, George P. Nicholas, and John R. Welch

Part III. Political Economies of Democracy: The Heritage of Labor and Neoliberal Capitalism

Heritage in the Service of Neoliberalism: The "With Liberty and Justice for All" Exhibition at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation / Stacey L. Camp

Heritage Building and the Ethnic Divide in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania / Paul A. Shackel

Part IV. Multicultural and Postcolonial Democracies: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion

Truth, Reconciliation, and the Heritage of Forced Removal: A Case Study of a Johannesburg Suburb / Jasmine Reid

The Migrant Trail Walk: Mobilizing Cultural Heritage and Interrupting Dominant Narratives for the Rights of Immigrants / Magda E. Mankel

Excavating Knowledge: Transformative Critical Heritage Pedagogies and Participatory Democracy at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana) / Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann and Dorothy Ann Engmann

Public Reason after Charlottesville: Heritage, Memes, and the Far Right / Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Bobbie Foster Bhusari

Part V. Agency and Democratic Practice across Multiple Scales of Governance

Democratic Heritage and Polycentric Governance / Peter G. Gould

Controlling the Facade: Resistance to Heritage Protections and Government Interventions in Post-Conflict Quintana Roo / Kasey Diserens Morgan

Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Democratic Participation and the UNESCO Creative Cities Network / Ellen J. Platts

Part VI. Conclusion. Heritage and the Incompleteness of Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities / Jon D. Daehnke and Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels.

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