A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Cross‐Cultural Encounters and “Difficult Heritage” on the Thai–Burma Railway
An Ethics of Cosmopolitanism rather than Practices of Exclusion
This chapter opens a space for understanding “difficult heritage” as an opportunity for producing heritage landscapes that support a cosmopolitan ethic rather than a form of nationally based identity politics. It does so by analyzing how an assemblage of local actors and former prisoners of war recast the history of the Thai–Burma railway as an opportunity to foster the value of cross‐cultural encounters for building peace. The aim is to draw attention to the reality that the ineffable aspects of heritage‐making are highly contingent for their existence on the continued investment of local actors and that, as a consequence, the ability of these places and the performances that take place within them to be understood and valued into the future is increasingly tenuous. The argument makes use of the recent turn in heritage studies to the “more than representational.”
Cross‐Cultural Encounters and “Difficult Heritage” on the Thai–Burma Railway
An Ethics of Cosmopolitanism rather than Practices of Exclusion
This chapter opens a space for understanding “difficult heritage” as an opportunity for producing heritage landscapes that support a cosmopolitan ethic rather than a form of nationally based identity politics. It does so by analyzing how an assemblage of local actors and former prisoners of war recast the history of the Thai–Burma railway as an opportunity to foster the value of cross‐cultural encounters for building peace. The aim is to draw attention to the reality that the ineffable aspects of heritage‐making are highly contingent for their existence on the continued investment of local actors and that, as a consequence, the ability of these places and the performances that take place within them to be understood and valued into the future is increasingly tenuous. The argument makes use of the recent turn in heritage studies to the “more than representational.”
Cross‐Cultural Encounters and “Difficult Heritage” on the Thai–Burma Railway
An Ethics of Cosmopolitanism rather than Practices of Exclusion
Logan, William (editor) / Craith, Máiréad Nic (editor) / Kockel, Ullrich (editor) / Witcomb, Andrea (author)
A Companion to Heritage Studies ; 461-478
2015-05-27
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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