The nexus between heritage, power and ideology almost seems self-evident, at least at first
sight. Is not heritage, or the announcement of something as heritage, per se ideological …

In the 1990s much of the academic literature on globalization heralded the decline of the
nation-state and the emergence of a new global order, one supposedly defined by …

Criminologists, perhaps more than other social scientists, are much exercised by the extent
of what they do not know. Theirs is a field dominated by the efforts of the controlling state …

This chapter introduces the concept of heritage and examines its various uses in
contemporary society. It then provides a background to the development of critical heritage …

'Heritage'is one social imaginary used by people to define identity in relation to ideas about
the past. But global flows of people, ideas, imaginations and technologies (Appadurai 1996; …

Heritage is a crucial value in the world today. This is reflected in the fact that, all over the
globe, humans share the catchy idea that something from the past, often from their past …

When writing histories of institutions, one would, ideally, like to start at the beginning. With
heritage, however, although one can insert various developments such as the Ancient …

The birth of this journal testifies to the convergence of interest from various academic
directions upon the nebulous but potent concept of heritage. So recent is this convergence …

As counterintuitive as this statement may sound, the basic idea introduced by Laurajanne
Smith (2006) in her much vaunted Uses of Heritage is the starting point for this collection …

The term 'policy'is often equated with being a means to achieve systematic state action.
Heritage has formed part of a broad conception of social policy at least since the emergence …