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Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building (Hardcover)
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Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building (Hardcover)
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This book raises questions about cultural interventions, an area of
investigation somewhat overlooked in place of developing a critique
of political interventions. Whilst political interventions are more
explicit, coercive, and have a wide-reaching impact, it is
important also to examine the way culture is used in attempts to
reconstruct society and peoples - the 'soft' side of statebuilding,
where heritage is utilised to play a role in the construction of
the nation and the people, in memory and identity. For it can play
a role in legitimizing myths and identifying symbolic, historic
events, and implicitly informs the construction of infrastructure,
institutions, and other aspects of civic life. Contributors from
the fields of politics, anthropology, archaeology, and sociology
examine interventions in state and nation building through cultural
methods, the 'soft' side of statebuilding, including the
preservation and promotion of certain heritage, the politics of
remembrance and monument building, and the repatriation of human
remains and artefacts to communities in the name of making
reparations for past atrocities. These are timely contributions.
Heritage and cultural is too often considered in terms of how
tourism might contribute to the economy post-conflict, neglecting
the construction of meaning and memory through decisions about is
what is preserved or not. It will be of special interest to those
in the field of cultural studies, archaeology, and politics as well
as international relations. This book was published as a special
issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
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