TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waterton,Emma
TI  - Politics, policy and the discourses of heritage in Britain
SN  - 9780230581883 (hbk.)
AV  - DA655 .W37 2010
U1  - 363.690941 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Protection
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Comparative politics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History of ideas
KW  - Social theory
KW  - Civil service & public sector
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - eflch
KW  - Kulturerbe
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kulturpolitik
KW  - Kulturmiljövård
KW  - sao
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Cultural policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-250) and index; Critical Discourse Analysis and Cultural Policy -- Heritage in the Wider World -- The Discursive Blueprint: A History of Heritage Policy -- New Labour, New Heritage? -- On Being Radical: The Heritage Protection Reform -- Turning the Trick by Itself: The Historic Environment and 'Community Cohesion'
N2  - The book examines a wide range of issues pertinent to cultural policy, and takes as its focus the intersection of heritage with recent calls for social inclusion. Despite attempts to mitigate instances of exclusion, newer policies continue to lean towards the predictable melding of cultural diversity with tendencies of assimilation. This is because all too often such policies fall back on limited representations of heritage, thereby constraining the different ways in which it may be imagined and articulated in social life. Significantly, this has allowed for the discursive and material projection of a white, middle-class past as universal and grounded in common sense, not only nationally but internationally as well. More worrying still is the projection of this vision into the future, as if by inevitable progression the same cultural symbols will be valued then as they supposedly are now. This book seeks to expose these tendencies while at the same time underscoring the consequences for any nation attempting to assert herself as multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious
ER  -