Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the ‘work’ of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the reductive economies of colonial capitalism.
In a global context of cultural financialisation and ecological crisis, where sustainable, anti-colonial and creative approaches are required to solve urgent problems, this volume provides readers with an enriched understanding of heritage as a transforming and multidisciplinary domain, which continues to question what is valued, discarded or shared with future generations. Bringing together researchers from the academy and industry, and from varied international contexts, this volume asks how does ‘heritage’ – as a complex intersection of contemporary practices with their own diverse histories – recognise and circulate cultural value between generations and communities? This volume brings together critical and creative perspectives from 29 authors, showcasing diverse, coexisting heritage economies across six continents that offer new horizons for cultural inheritance. It also platforms perspectives from professional and grassroots community-based heritage practitioners, which may be of interest to non-academic readers from not-for-profit and public sectors.
Readers of Alternative Economies of Heritage may include students and scholars of heritage and museum studies, contemporary art, urbanism, environmental humanities, archaeology, anthropology, digital humanities and Indigenous studies, among other disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part|14 pages
Opening
chapter 1|12 pages
Transformative Heritage Economies
Reimagining Cultural Value, Exchange and Inheritance
part One|86 pages
Transforming Heritage Subjects
chapter 2|18 pages
Ancestors, Not Objects
chapter 3|17 pages
The Currency of Heritage Citizenship in Urban Indonesia
chapter 4|11 pages
Pencilled Calculations
chapter 5|9 pages
Connecting Our Stories
chapter 6|15 pages
Reimagining Heritage Economies at Cape Town’s Adderley Street Flower Market
chapter 7|14 pages
Valuing Personal Narratives as Common Heritage
part Two|74 pages
Rethinking Heritage Resources
chapter 8|11 pages
It’s the Economy, Stupid! Connecting Heritage Value, Economics and the Everyday
chapter 9|10 pages
Making Heritage through Seed Stories
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ByZayaan KhanAbstract
chapter 10|13 pages
Re-figuring Digitisation
chapter 11|15 pages
Heritage Entrepreneurship
chapter 12|10 pages
Nurturing Heritage in Community Gardens
chapter 13|13 pages
The Value of Post-Apartheid Archives
part Three|86 pages
Processes of Possibility
Title
chapter 14|14 pages
Do-It-Yourself Heritage
chapter 15|13 pages
Taxila’s Cultural Legacy
chapter 16|14 pages
Diverse Mapuche Landscapes
chapter 17|13 pages
Mapping Community Economies as a Living Heritage Practice
chapter 18|17 pages
Thinking with Shells
Digital Culturescapes Decolonising Digital Heritage
chapter 19|13 pages
Loving Work
Surviving, Gathering and Dreaming for Indigenous Futures
part|6 pages
Reopening
chapter 20|4 pages
The Economy of the Night
Fragments of Darlinghurst’s Queer Heritage