Politics of Heritage

<p>While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity' rather than being a peripheral concern are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined?<br>This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors including academics practitioners policy makers and curators it examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes experience attractions to education - deal with the complex legacies of the idea of 'race'.<br>Whether exploring the fallout of colonialism the domination of 'England' over the other three nations holocaust memorials or the way British heritage is negotiated overseas a recurring theme of this book is the need to accept that Britain has always been a place of shifting ethnicities shaped by waves of migration diaspora and globalization.<br>Analyzing both theory and practice this book is concerned with understanding the processes through which changes to heritage happens and with exploring problems and possibilities for the future.</p>