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Museum franchising in the age of cross-border heritage : beyond boundaries

Part of the Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect series
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This publication contributes to new understandings of how heritage operates as a global phenomenon and the transnational heritage discourses that emerge from this process.

Taking such a view sees autochthonous and franchised heritage not as separate or opposing elements but as part of the same process of contemporary globalised identity-making, which contributes to the development of newly emergent cosmopolitan identities.

The book critically examines the processes that are involved in the franchising of heritage and its cultural effects.

It does so by examining the connections and tensions that emerge from combining autochthonous and franchised heritage in the United Arab Emirates, providing a unique window in to the process of creating hybrid heritage in non-Western contexts.

It develops new ideas about how this global phenomenon works, how it might be characterised and how it influences and is itself affected by local forms of heritage.

By exploring how autochthonous and franchised heritage is produced in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates it becomes clear that Western-dominated practices are often challenged and, perhaps more importantly, that new ways of understanding, producing and living with heritage are being articulated in these previously marginal locations. The book offers innovative insights into heritage as a transnational process, exploring how it operates within local, national and international identity concerns and debates.

It will appeal to scholars and students interested in critical heritage studies, museums, tourism, cultural studies and Middle Eastern studies.

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Routledge
1138088226 / 9781138088221
Hardback
23/09/2020
United Kingdom
English
272 pages
24 cm
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