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This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is
'heritage' in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan
'post-nation'. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work
of public intellectual Stuart Hall (1932-2014). Hall was
instrumental in calling out embedded elitist conceptions of 'The
Heritage' of Britain. The book's authors challenge us to reconsider
what is valued about Britain's past, its culture and its citizens.
Populist discourses around the world, including Brexit and 'culture
war' declarations in the UK, demonstrate how heritage and ideas of
the past are mobilised in racist politics. The multidisciplinary
chapters of this book offer critical inspections of these politics,
and dig deeply into the problems of theory, policy and practice in
today's academia, society and heritage sector. The volume
challenges the lack of action since Hall rebuked 'The Heritage'
twenty years ago. The authors featured here are predominantly Black
Britons, academics and practitioners engaged in culture and
heritage, spurred by the killing of George Floyd and the rise of
the Black Lives Matter movement to contest racist practices and
structures that support them. The primary audience will be
academics, but it will also attract culture sector practitioners
and heritage institutions. However, the book is particularly aimed
at scholars and community members who identify as Black, who are
centrally concerned with questions of identity and race in British
society. Its Open Access status will facilitate access to the book
by all groups in society.
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