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Author Waterton, Emma.

Title Politics, policy and the discourses of heritage in Britain / Emma Waterton
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Contents Critical Discourse Analysis and Cultural Policy -- Heritage in the Wider World -- The Discursive Blueprint: A History of Heritage Policy -- New Labour, New Heritage? -- On Being Radical: The Heritage Protection Reform -- Turning the Trick by Itself: The Historic Environment and 'Community Cohesion'
Summary The book examines a wide range of issues pertinent to cultural policy, and takes as its focus the intersection of heritage with recent calls for social inclusion. Despite attempts to mitigate instances of exclusion, newer policies continue to lean towards the predictable melding of cultural diversity with tendencies of assimilation. This is because all too often such policies fall back on limited representations of heritage, thereby constraining the different ways in which it may be imagined and articulated in social life. Significantly, this has allowed for the discursive and material projection of a white, middle-class past as universal and grounded in common sense, not only nationally but internationally as well. More worrying still is the projection of this vision into the future, as if by inevitable progression the same cultural symbols will be valued then as they supposedly are now. This book seeks to expose these tendencies while at the same time underscoring the consequences for any nation attempting to assert herself as multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index
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Subject Cultural property -- Protection -- Great Britain
Cultural property -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
Cultural property -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Comparative politics.
History of ideas.
Social theory.
Civil service & public sector.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Politics and Government.
Cultural policy
Cultural property -- Protection
Kulturerbe
Kulturpolitik
Kulturmiljövård.
Kulturpolitik.
History.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Cultural policy
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230292383
0230292380
1282998021
9781282998025