Heritage, memory and identity are closely connected keywords of our time, each endowed with considerable rhetorical power. Different human groups define certain objects and practices as ‘heritage’; they envision heritage to reflect some form of collective memory, either lived or imagined; and they combine both to construct cultural identities. Today, the three terms raise conjoined issues of practice, policy and politics in an increasingly globalized world.
Bringing together a truly global range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory and identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of contestation, and human rights.
PART ONE: CONFIGURATIONS OF HERITAGE, MEMORY, IDENTITY
Foreword: Pierre Nora
Introduction: Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Dacia Viejo-Rose and Helmut Anheier
GLOBAL APPROACHES
The Role of Narratives in Commemoration: Remembering as Mediated Action: James Wertsch and Doc Billingsley
UNESCO and Heritage: Global Doctrine and the Economy of Prestige: Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Destruction and Reconstruction of Heritage: Impacts on Memory and Identity: Dacia Viejo-Rose
The Political Economies of Heritage: Tim Winter
Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora: Ien Ang
Territorialization and the Politics of Autochthony: Jean-Pierre Warnier
Grassroots Memorials as Sites of Heritage Creation : Cristina Sánchez Carretero and Carmen Ortiz
Sites of Conscience: Heritage of and for Human Rights: Liz Ševenko
‘Not Just a Place’: Culture and the Environment: Benjamin Morris
REGIONAL REALITIES
Living Sacred Heritage and ‘Authenticity’ in South Asia: Jagath Weerasinghe
A Contested Site of Memory: The Preah Vihear Temple: Aurel Croissant and Paul Wesley Chambers
Memory and Identity as Elements of Heritage Tourism in Southern Africa : Susan Keitumetse, Laura McAtackney and Gobopaone Senata
Multiple Heritages, Multiple Identities: The Southwest Indian Ocean: Rosabelle Boswell
Remembering and Forgetting Communist Cultural Production: Dragan Klaic
Post-Socialist Recollections: Identity and Memory in Former Yugoslavia: Zala Volcic
Contemporary Creativity and Heritage: Lucina Jiménez Lopéz
FIELDS AND ISSUES
The Manipulation of Memory and Heritage in Museums of Migration: Julie Thomas
Heritage, Memory, Debris: Sulukule, Don’t Forget: Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins
Knowing the City: Migrants Negotiating Materialiteis in Istanbul: Yael Navaro-Yashin
Divided Memories, Contested Histories: The Shifting Landscape in Japan: Akiko Hashimoto
Memorialization and the Rwandan Genocide: The Use of Theatre: Ananda Breed
Narrating Shared Identity: Brian Schiff, Carolina Porto de Andrade and Mathilde Toulemonde
Listening Voices: On Actualizing Memories: Esther Shalev-Gerz
COMMENTARIES
Intangibles: Culture, Heritage and Identity: Henrietta L Moore
From the Tower of Babel to the Ivory Tower: David Lowenthal
PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES
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Craig Yirush Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm, claim indigenous territory and establish new governments by consent, this radical set of ideas culminated in revolution and republicanism. But unlike most scholarship on early American political theory, Craig Yirush does not focus solely on the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Instead, he examines how the political ideas of settler elites in British North America emerged in the often-forgotten years between the Glorious Revolution in America and the American Revolution against Britain. By taking seriously an imperial world characterized by constitutional uncertainty, geo-political rivalry and the ongoing presence of powerful Native American peoples, Yirush provides a long-term explanation for the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.
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In Perspectives on Politics 9 (2011), Andrea Smith reviews:
The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations. By Kevin Bruyneel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 320p.
Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution. By Frank Pommersheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
a bit of it:
Both of these books provide helpful analytics and strategies for addressing the continued assault on tribal sovereignty in the short term. Pommersheim directs us to practical legal strategies though constitutional remedy that can stop the US Supreme Court’s erosion of tribal sovereignty. Bruyneel reframes the analytics by which we understand sovereignty struggles. He advocates that we reject simple binaries in which Native peoples must be either completely assimilated into US polity or solely outside it. Such a binary always positions Native peoples as a disappointment whenever they fail to escape colonial conditions completely. Given the continued and dire assaults on Native sovereignty brilliantly outlined by Pommersheim and Bruyneel, the strategies and analytics they proffer are critically important. To explore the writings of scholars who articulate a longer-term vision of ending settler colonialism, those of Waziyatawin, Jennifer Denetdale, Taiaike Alfred, Glen Couthard, Robert Nichols, Dian Million, and Jennifer Denetdale provide a helpful starting point.
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At a Lincoln lecture, a history professor will discuss the lasting consequences of the forced assimilation of American Indian and Australian aboriginal children into the dominant culture.
The lecture will be given by University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Margaret Jacobs. A university news release says her lecture will build on her book, “White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940.”
In the late 19th century, the U.S. and Australian governments moved the children to boarding schools as part of the assimilation effort. Tens of thousands of children were forced to leave their families and abandon their customs.
The free lecture is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on April 14 in the Nebraska Union auditorium.
From newstimes
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Join your host, J Kēhaulani Kauanui, for Part I of a two-part episode that focuses on the Palestinian struggle as an indigenous people’s struggle. How is indigeneity contested in the Israeli state project? How do the frameworks of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide work in Zionist projects of occupation? What are the parallels between the colonization of Native North America and Palestine? What about Zionist Jewish bids for indigenous status? How might the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples be used to mobilize resistance? The show will feature community presentations made at a recent event in recognition of Israeli Apartheid Week, “Palestine and the Struggle of Indigenous Peoples” by Gale Courey Toensing (Palestinian American staff reporter for Indian Country Today Media Network) and Stan Heller (Chairperson of the Middle East Crisis Committee). Original air-date: 3-29-11.
from Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond
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The American Indian Quarterly 35, 2 (2011)
Patty Loew and James Thannum, ‘After the Storm: Ojibwe Treaty Rights Twenty-Five Years after the Voigt Decision’, pp. 161-191.
Arnold Krupat, ‘Chief Seattle’s Speech Revisited’, pp. 192-214.
Rauna Kuokkanen, ‘Indigenous Economies, Theories of Subsistence, and Women: Exploring the Social Economy Model for Indigenous Governance’, pp. 215-240.
Maria A. Kopacz and Bessie Lee Lawton, ‘Rating the YouTube Indian: Viewer Ratings of Native American Portrayals on a Viral Video Site’, pp. 241-257.
Elizabeth Archuleta, In the Presence of the Sun, and: The Journey of Tai-me (review)
Kristen A. Carpenter, Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries (review)
Brendan Hokowhitu, The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice (review)
Maria Williams, Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska (review)
Fay A. Yarbrough, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (review)
Cathy Howlett, Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift (review)
Gregory A. Cajete, New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America (review)
Jeffrey P. Palmer, Video Letters from Prison (review)
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chorus of crows
When she saw Top Camp
(humpies made of corrugated iron/slabs of bark
people and dogs living together
children discharge running from nostrils/ears
like sewage seeping from the broken pipes next door)
she didn’t wince.
She learnt to overlook the rubbish
caught on broken fences
blown by westerlies that brought the dust
and the haunting sound of crows through
every crack.When she met Topsy
(her husband used a star picket
punished her tribal way even though everyone knew
that whitefella contractor got the better of her)
she didn’t faint.
It wasn’t the first time she’d seen human flesh
open to the bone or held the hand of a woman
being stitched up.
Outside the clinic the crows seemed to sing
that white man
long gone.When the Land Council mob
said no to a drink in the back bar
(the publican would only lace
their beer with Worcestershire Sauce
customers would stare/whisper behind cupped hands)
she bought a carton.
They sat in the yard yarning and laughing
at the crows as they burnt their beaks
scavenging for scraps
on the barbecue
hot plate.
An extract from K A Nelson’s poem ‘Chorus of Crows’, winner of the 2010 Overland Judith Wright Poetry prize for New and Emerging Poets.
Hat tip, Mat A.
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Citing precedents, prosecutors reached back into the Indian Wars in arguments at an appeals panel in Washington D.C. Specifically, they invoked an 1818 military commission convened by Gen. Andrew Jackson after U.S. forces invaded then-Spanish Florida to stop black slaves from fleeing through a porous border — then executed two British men for helping the Seminole Indians.
Navy Capt. Edward S. White also wrote this in a prosecution brief:
“Not only was the Seminole belligerency unlawful, but, much like modern-day al Qaeda, the very way in which the Seminoles waged war against U.S. targets itself violate the customs and usages of war.”
From Miami Herald
Hat tip Dave G
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