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The urge for regional identity has not declined in the process of
globalization. Rather, heritage is used to develop regional
distinctiveness and to charge identities with a past. Particularly
helpful for this aim are creation stories, Golden Ages or recent,
shared traumas. Some themes such as the Roman era or the Second
World War appear easier to appropriate than, for example,
prehistory. This book assesses the role of heritage in the
construction of regional identities in Western Europe. It contains
case studies on early medieval heritage in Alsace and Euregio-Meuse
Rhine, industrial heritage in the German Ruhr area and competing
memories in the Arnhem-Nijmegen region in the Netherlands. It
presents new insights into the process of heritage production on a
regional level in relationship to processes of identity
construction. The theoretical analysis of "heritage" and "regional
identity" is innovative as these concepts were hardly analysed in
relation to each other before. This book also offers insights into
policy, tourism, spatial development and regional development to
policymakers, politicians, designers and professionals in the
heritage and tourism industries.
The urge for regional identity has not declined in the process of
globalization. Rather, heritage is used to develop regional
distinctiveness and to charge identities with a past. Particularly
helpful for this aim are creation stories, Golden Ages or recent,
shared traumas. Some themes such as the Roman era or the Second
World War appear easier to appropriate than, for example,
prehistory. This book assesses the role of heritage in the
construction of regional identities in Western Europe. It contains
case studies on early medieval heritage in Alsace and Euregio-Meuse
Rhine, industrial heritage in the German Ruhr area and competing
memories in the Arnhem-Nijmegen region in the Netherlands. It
presents new insights into the process of heritage production on a
regional level in relationship to processes of identity
construction. The theoretical analysis of "heritage" and "regional
identity" is innovative as these concepts were hardly analysed in
relation to each other before. This book also offers insights into
policy, tourism, spatial development and regional development to
policymakers, politicians, designers and professionals in the
heritage and tourism industries.
Heritage and tourism mutually reinforce each other, with the
presentation of heritage at physical sites mirrored by the ways
heritage is presented on the internet. This interdisciplinary book
uses humanities and social sciences to analyse the ways that
heritage is branded and commodified, how stakeholders organise
place brands, and how digital strategies shape how visitors
appreciate heritage sites. The book covers a wide geographic
diversity, offering the reader the chance to find cross-cutting
themes and area-specific features of the field.
The Wadden Sea Region is comprised of the embanked coastal marshes
and islands in the Wadden Sea near Denmark, Germany, and the
Netherlands. This area retains an exceptional common history in all
its aspects: archaeologically, economically, socially, and
culturally. Its settlement history of more than two thousand years
is unrivalled and still mirrored in the landscape. Even though it
has never constituted a political unity, it still shares a
landscape and cultural heritage. For example, the approaches to
water management and associated societal organization developed in
the region during the last millennium have set significant world
standards. This book offers an overview of current research on
history, landscape and cultural heritage of the Wadden Sea region.
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