Heritagising Asian Cities: Space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices
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Heritagising Asian Cities : Space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices. / Salemink, Oscar.
In: International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 27, No. 8, 08.2021, p. 769-776.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Heritagising Asian Cities
AU - Salemink, Oscar
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Urban visions of modernity and nostalgia constitute two competing visions of the good life in Asia, which are both materialised in urbanneighbourhoods. When and where old historic neighbourhoods are not razed to be replaced by highrises, modern residential blocks and shopping malls but instead retained, it is often under the banner of heritage. This theme section considers heritagization of Asian cities against the backdrop of modernisation and (sub)urbanisation, in articles focusing onKolkata, Beijing, Hanoi and Taipei. The articles explore local people’s multiple experiences within lived environments in terms of modernityand heritage, not so much by focusing on how different visions of modernity and nostalgia are materialised through the label of heritage, but by describing and analysing the modalities of such nostalgia among different groups of people, as expressed and mediated in different forms and practices. We propose to capture the diverse cognitive, memorial, affective, emotional and imaginative aspects of heritage on the part of the people living with that heritage in terms of vernacular heritage, which we define as cultural heritage that is conceived, perceived, experienced, imagined and practiced by different groups of ‘lay people’ with varyingconnections to specific heritage sites, environments and practices.
AB - Urban visions of modernity and nostalgia constitute two competing visions of the good life in Asia, which are both materialised in urbanneighbourhoods. When and where old historic neighbourhoods are not razed to be replaced by highrises, modern residential blocks and shopping malls but instead retained, it is often under the banner of heritage. This theme section considers heritagization of Asian cities against the backdrop of modernisation and (sub)urbanisation, in articles focusing onKolkata, Beijing, Hanoi and Taipei. The articles explore local people’s multiple experiences within lived environments in terms of modernityand heritage, not so much by focusing on how different visions of modernity and nostalgia are materialised through the label of heritage, but by describing and analysing the modalities of such nostalgia among different groups of people, as expressed and mediated in different forms and practices. We propose to capture the diverse cognitive, memorial, affective, emotional and imaginative aspects of heritage on the part of the people living with that heritage in terms of vernacular heritage, which we define as cultural heritage that is conceived, perceived, experienced, imagined and practiced by different groups of ‘lay people’ with varyingconnections to specific heritage sites, environments and practices.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - heritagization
KW - Asian cities
KW - space
KW - Memory
KW - vernacular heritage
U2 - 10.1080/13527258.2021.1890186
DO - 10.1080/13527258.2021.1890186
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 769
EP - 776
JO - International Journal of Heritage Studies
JF - International Journal of Heritage Studies
SN - 1352-7258
IS - 8
Y2 - 20 June 2016 through 23 June 2016
ER -
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