Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance

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Dr Veysel Apaydin (University College London, UK) Beverley Butler (Ucl Institute of Archaeology University College London UK)

Narrating Heritage

Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance

Dr Veysel Apaydin (University College London, UK), Beverley Butler (Ucl Institute of Archaeology University College London UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
26 June 2025

Museums & museology; Archaeology by period & region; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship

Series: UCL Critical Cultural Heritage Series

Narrating Heritage critically examines the links among heritage, rights and social justice. This book brings important original ethnographic research and unique case studies together in a coherent and cohesive way to examine patterns and differences of approaches to heritage. It exposes discourses of the uses and abuses of heritage, and provides narratives of persistence, demonstrating the importance of heritage in securing human rights and social justice.

Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and economic heritage discourses, making explicit the relationship between cultural and natural heritage. This book expands on these discourses by examining the role of violence in heritage, expanding on the concepts of both direct and slow violence. It situates heritage discourse within the sphere of human rights and lays out redistribution, recognition and representation as dimensions of social justice in a heritage context.

The case studies in this volume explore multiple themes, from the links between cultural performance and the construction of collective identity and sense of belonging, to the roles of education, learning about other cultures and nationalist use of education. They also discuss the relationship between construction of heritage, space, and access and exclusion, as well as the impact of authoritarianism and heavy neoliberal policies on heritage making.

By: Dr Veysel Apaydin (University College London UK)
Edited by: Beverley Butler (Ucl Institute of Archaeology University College London UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350334649
ISBN 10: 1350334642
Series: UCL Critical Cultural Heritage Series
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 26 June 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Veysel Apaydin is Associate Professor in Art, Design and Museology at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UK. He is the author of Heritage, Education and Social Justice (2022), and the editor of Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage (2020) and Shared Knowledge, Shared Power (2018).

Reviews for Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance

Apaydin should be commended for giving a voice to those who are often silenced throughout the communities covered here. This is especially noted in his vivid descriptions and poignant narratives. Libraries with heritage collections, especially those focusing on political struggles and minority groups, should acquire this. * CHOICE *