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This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation
of Asia's culture and nature in relation to the wider social,
political and economic forces shaping the region today. Throughout
Asia rapid economic and social change means the region's heritage
is at once under threat and undergoing a revival as never before.
As societies look forward, competing forces ensure they re-visit
the past and the inherited, with the conservation of nature and
culture now driven by the broader agendas of identity politics,
tradition, revival, rapid development, environmentalism and
sustainability. In response to these new and important trends, the
twenty three accessible chapters here go beyond sector specific
analyses to examine heritage in inter-disciplinary and critically
engaged terms, encompassing the natural and the cultural, the
tangible and intangible. Emerging environmentalisms, urban
planning, identity politics, conflict memorialization, tourism and
biodiversity are among the topics covered here. This path-breaking
volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars
working in the fields of heritage, tourism, archaeology, Asian
studies, geography, anthropology, development, sociology, and
cultural and postcolonial studies.
In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most
expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors,
and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the
records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions.
With more than half of the world's population now living in cities,
many of which face uncertain futures, this mega event confronted
some of the key challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century,
with its theme Better City, Better Life. Just two years after the
Beijing Olympics, Shanghai Expo encapsulated a moment in history
defined by China's rise as a global superpower, and by the multiple
challenges associated with developing more sustainable cities. The
thirteen essays here, written by a team of interdisciplinary
researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally
significant event. Chapters examine displays of futurity and
utopia, the limitations of inter-cultural dialogue, and the ways in
which this mega-event reflected its geo-political and cultural
moment. Shanghai Expo also concentrates on the interplay between
declarations towards urban sustainability, and the recent economic,
demographic and socio-political trajectories of Shanghai and China
more broadly. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology,
history, politics, international relations, economics, Asian
studies, China studies, sustainability, and urban studies.
In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most
expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors,
and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the
records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions.
With more than half of the world's population now living in cities,
many of which face uncertain futures, this mega event confronted
some of the key challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century,
with its theme Better City, Better Life. Just two years after the
Beijing Olympics, Shanghai Expo encapsulated a moment in history
defined by China's rise as a global superpower, and by the multiple
challenges associated with developing more sustainable cities. The
thirteen essays here, written by a team of interdisciplinary
researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally
significant event. Chapters examine displays of futurity and
utopia, the limitations of inter-cultural dialogue, and the ways in
which this mega-event reflected its geo-political and cultural
moment. Shanghai Expo also concentrates on the interplay between
declarations towards urban sustainability, and the recent economic,
demographic and socio-political trajectories of Shanghai and China
more broadly. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology,
history, politics, international relations, economics, Asian
studies, China studies, sustainability, and urban studies.
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays
in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary
Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first
sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural
productions and practices, the changing urban landscape and the
construction of identity and nation building twenty-five years
after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. As such, the team of
international contributors address the politics of development and
conservation, tradition and modernity within the global economy,
and transmigratory movements of the twenty-first century.
Expressions of Cambodia presents a new dimension to the Cambodian
studies by engaging the country in current debates about
globalization and the commodification of culture, post-colonial
politics and identity constructions. Timely and much-needed, this
volume brings Cambodia back into dialogue with its neighbours, and
in so doing, valuably contributes to the growing field of Southeast
Asian cultural studies.
Angkor, Cambodia's only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the
most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history.
Given Cambodia's need to restore its shattered social and physical
infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism
to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a
decade, the site has become an intense focal point of competing
agendas. Angkor's immense historical importance, along with its
global prestige, has led to an unprecedented influx of aid, with
over twenty countries together donating millions of dollars for
conservation and research. For the Royal Government however, Angkor
has become a 'cash-cow' of development. Post-conflict Heritage,
Postcolonial Tourism critically examines this situation and locates
Angkor within the broader contexts of post-conflict reconstruction,
nation building, and socio-economic rehabilitation. Based on two
years of fieldwork, the book explores culture, development, the
politics of space, and the relationship between consumption, memory
and identity to reveal the aspirations and tensions, anxieties and
paradoxical agendas, which form around a heritage tourism landscape
in a post-conflict, postcolonial society. With the situation in
Cambodia examined as a stark example of a phenomenon common to many
countries attempting to recover after periods of war or political
turmoil, Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism will be of
particular interest to students and scholars working in the fields
of Asian studies, tourism, heritage, development, and cultural and
postcolonial studies.
With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based on
'Western' tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth
of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal
of how tourism is analyzed and understood. Examining domestic and
intra-regional tourism, the book reveals how improvements in
infrastructures, ever increasing disposable incomes, liberalized
economies, the inter-connectivities of globalization and the
lowering of borders, both physical and political, are now enabling
millions of Asians to travel as tourists. Drawing upon
multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and up-to-date empirical
research, the twenty-three accessible essays in this volume
indicate why a rigorous and critical study of Asian tourism must
become integral to both our analysis of this rapidly transforming
region and our interpretation of global tourism in the twenty first
century. As a rich collection of essays on heritage and tourism
oriented around Asian tourists, Asia on Tour will be of particular
interest to students and scholars working in the fields of tourism,
Asian studies, geography, heritage, anthropology, development,
sociology, and cultural and postcolonial studies.
Angkor, Cambodia's only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the
most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history.
Given Cambodia's need to restore its shattered social and physical
infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism
to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a
decade, the site has become an intense focal point of competing
agendas. Angkor's immense historical importance, along with its
global prestige, has led to an unprecedented influx of aid, with
over twenty countries together donating millions of dollars for
conservation and research. For the Royal Government however, Angkor
has become a 'cash-cow' of development. Post-conflict Heritage,
Postcolonial Tourism critically examines this situation and locates
Angkor within the broader contexts of post-conflict reconstruction,
nation building, and socio-economic rehabilitation. Based on two
years of fieldwork, the book explores culture, development, the
politics of space, and the relationship between consumption, memory
and identity to reveal the aspirations and tensions, anxieties and
paradoxical agendas, which form around a heritage tourism landscape
in a post-conflict, postcolonial society. With the situation in
Cambodia examined as a stark example of a phenomenon common to many
countries attempting to recover after periods of war or political
turmoil, Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism will be of
particular interest to students and scholars working in the fields
of Asian studies, tourism, heritage, development, and cultural and
postcolonial studies.
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays
in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary
Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first
sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural
productions and practices, the changing urban landscape and the
construction of identity and nation building twenty-five years
after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. As such, the team of
international contributors address the politics of development and
conservation, tradition and modernity within the global economy,
and transmigratory movements of the twenty-first century.
"Expressions of Cambodia" presents a new dimension to the Cambodian
studies by engaging the country in current debates about
globalization and the commodification of culture, post-colonial
politics and identity constructions. Timely and much-needed, this
volume brings Cambodia back into dialogue with its neighbors, and
in so doing, valuably contributes to the growingfield of Southeast
Asian cultural studies.
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging
connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and
culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious
strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and
maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries
and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world's population. But
what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first
century? Geocultural Power explores this question by considering
how China is couching its strategy for building trade, foreign
relations, and energy and political security in an evocative
topography of history. Until now Belt and Road has been discussed
as a geopolitical and geoeconomic project. This book introduces
geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. Tim
Winter highlights how many countries--including Iran, Sri Lanka,
Kenya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and others--are revisiting
their histories to find points of diplomatic and cultural
connection. Through the revived Silk Roads, China becomes the new
author of Eurasian history and the architect of the bridge between
East and West. In a diplomatic dance of forgetting, episodes of
violence, invasion, and bloodshed are left behind for a language of
history and heritage that crosses borders in ways that further the
trade ambitions of an increasingly networked China-driven economy.
This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major
themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of
the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the
eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects
the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to
which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of
solutions which are of abiding interest. Devoting especial
attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the
construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim
theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural
interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. Throughout the
treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political
context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved.
Despite its importance, Islamic theology has been neglected in
recent scholarship, and this book provides a unique, scholarly but
accessible introduction.
With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based on
'Western' tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth
of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal
of how tourism is analyzed and understood. Examining domestic and
intra-regional tourism, this book reveals how improvements in
infrastructures, ever increasing disposable incomes, liberalized
economies, the inter-connectivities of globalization and the
lowering of borders, both physical and political, are now enabling
millions of Asians to travel as tourists. Drawing upon
multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and up-to-date empirical
research, the twenty-three accessible essays in this volume
indicate why a rigorous and critical study of Asian tourism must
become integral to both our analysis of this rapidly transforming
region and our interpretation of global tourism in the twenty first
century. As a rich collection of essays on heritage and tourism
oriented around Asian tourists, Asia on Tour will be of particular
interest to students and scholars working in the fields of tourism,
Asian studies, geography, heritage, anthropology, development,
sociology, and cultural and postcolonial studies.
This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major
themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of
the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the
eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects
the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to
which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of
solutions which are of abiding interest. Devoting especial
attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the
construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim
theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural
interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. Throughout the
treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political
context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved.
Despite its importance, Islamic theology has been neglected in
recent scholarship, and this book provides a unique, scholarly but
accessible introduction.
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging
connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and
culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious
strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and
maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries
and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world's population. But
what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first
century? Geocultural Power explores this question by considering
how China is couching its strategy for building trade, foreign
relations, and energy and political security in an evocative
topography of history. Until now Belt and Road has been discussed
as a geopolitical and geoeconomic project. This book introduces
geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. Tim
Winter highlights how many countries--including Iran, Sri Lanka,
Kenya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and others--are revisiting
their histories to find points of diplomatic and cultural
connection. Through the revived Silk Roads, China becomes the new
author of Eurasian history and the architect of the bridge between
East and West. In a diplomatic dance of forgetting, episodes of
violence, invasion, and bloodshed are left behind for a language of
history and heritage that crosses borders in ways that further the
trade ambitions of an increasingly networked China-driven economy.
From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and
political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and
poorly understood narratives of history. The Silk Road is rapidly
becoming one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of
the twenty-first century. Yet, for much of the twentieth century
the Silk Road received little attention, overshadowed by
nationalism and its invented pasts, and a world dominated by
conflict and Cold War standoffs. In The Silk Road, Tim Winter
reveals the different paths this history of connected cultures took
towards global fame, a century after the first evidence of contact
between China and Europe was unearthed. He also reveals how this
remarkably popular depiction of the past took hold as a platform
for geopolitical ambition, a celebration of peace and cosmopolitan
harmony, and created dreams of exploration and grand adventure.
Winter further explores themes that reappear today as China seeks
to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century. Known across
the globe, the Silk Road is a concept fit for the modern world, and
yet its significance and origins remain poorly understood and are
the subject of much confusion. Pathbreaking in its analysis, this
book presents an entirely new reading of this increasingly
important concept, one that is likely to remain at the center of
world affairs for decades to come.
In this intriguing collection of old images of Haslemere and
Hindhead, the past is evocatively recreated in over 200 photographs
and postcards, many of which will not have been seen before. This
book gives an insight into the everyday life in and around
Haslemere and Hindhead as it would have been over the last two
centuries. The reader is taken on a tour around the area, meeting
shopkeepers and people going about their daily business in the
ever-changing High Street, which has also been witness to many
important historial events, celebrations and gatherings. Each image
in accompanied by supporting text providing a wealth of local
colour and historical detail. The collection will provide older
residents of the area with a nostalgic look into the past, and
bring to newcomers an opportunity to learn of the changes and
events which have shaped the area in which they live today.
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