Routledge Borderlands Studies Border Heritage: Memory Preservation Geopolitics (Hardcover)

This book uncovers the rich heritage of borderlands. At the border people exist in-between whether they live their lives at the near boundaries or whether they are just passing through as travellers or tourists. The heritage of these spaces is a vast collection of remnants and reminiscences defined by memory preservation and geopolitics at the margins. It is at once a heritage of borders and the bordering of heritage. This book defines border heritage as a realization valuation and manifestation of this being and belonging in-between: a form of heritage bordered by the politics of inclusion and exclusion of the various authorities of states heritage organizations communities and tourism agencies. Richly illustrated with case studies and examples drawn from around the world the book considers post-colonial border heritage the growing pursuit of border heritage tourism a new agenda for border wall studies the continuing politics of legacy the temporal cycles and rhythms in border heritage and the heritage of border culture endurance recurrence and revival. Bringing together a wide range of spatial and temporal approaches to border heritage this book will be perfect for researchers and students of border and heritage studies as well as professionals specialising in heritage management or tourism.