Heritage, Power, and Liminality
This book delivers a fresh approach to understanding cultural heritage amid an under-explored yet dynamic global force: the uncertainty of political transition. Since the turn of the 21st century, transition has defined geopolitics across the globe – from a sharp rise in hybrid authoritarian-democra...
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| description | This book delivers a fresh approach to understanding cultural heritage amid an under-explored yet dynamic global force: the uncertainty of political transition. Since the turn of the 21st century, transition has defined geopolitics across the globe – from a sharp rise in hybrid authoritarian-democratic regimes and an unsettling shift toward post-truth politics to the accelerating threat of technological warfare. As the past is constantly renegotiated to suit the ever-changing needs of the present, cultural heritage emerges as both beacon and battleground. Employing the versatile concept of contemporary liminality from political anthropology, this book provides critical heritage studies with a novel approach to understanding the interplay between heritage and transition. It illuminates how different political groups use cultural heritage as a tool for navigating the uncertainty of transitional crisis in their quests to legitimise power or to resist it. Drawing on a synthesis of two centuries of political transitions in Myanmar and interviews with military officials, pro-democracy leaders, cultural experts, and everyday people, an innovative critique which ventures into the backstage spaces of cultural production emerges. The book makes a unique contribution by theorising a modality of ‘liminal heritage’, cultural expression that takes on qualities of its transitional-liminal context, such as absurdity, ambiguity, imitation, violence, and inversion, particularly potent in authoritarian contexts. It will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in sociology, political anthropology, heritage studies, museum studies, and Asian studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1778842026-06-22T05:30:09Z Heritage, Power, and Liminality Stevens, Alicia Political anthropology Critical heritage studies Transitional justice Memory politics Museum studies Southeast Asian politics Cultural heritage power dynamics Myanmar thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology This book delivers a fresh approach to understanding cultural heritage amid an under-explored yet dynamic global force: the uncertainty of political transition. Since the turn of the 21st century, transition has defined geopolitics across the globe – from a sharp rise in hybrid authoritarian-democratic regimes and an unsettling shift toward post-truth politics to the accelerating threat of technological warfare. As the past is constantly renegotiated to suit the ever-changing needs of the present, cultural heritage emerges as both beacon and battleground. Employing the versatile concept of contemporary liminality from political anthropology, this book provides critical heritage studies with a novel approach to understanding the interplay between heritage and transition. It illuminates how different political groups use cultural heritage as a tool for navigating the uncertainty of transitional crisis in their quests to legitimise power or to resist it. Drawing on a synthesis of two centuries of political transitions in Myanmar and interviews with military officials, pro-democracy leaders, cultural experts, and everyday people, an innovative critique which ventures into the backstage spaces of cultural production emerges. The book makes a unique contribution by theorising a modality of ‘liminal heritage’, cultural expression that takes on qualities of its transitional-liminal context, such as absurdity, ambiguity, imitation, violence, and inversion, particularly potent in authoritarian contexts. It will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in sociology, political anthropology, heritage studies, museum studies, and Asian studies. 2026-06-22T05:30:08Z 2026-06-22T05:30:08Z 2026-06-21T15:57:08Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103021_9781040534519_20 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114337 9781040534519 9781040667446 9781003583295 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177884 eng Contemporary Liminality open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114337/1/9781040534519.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003583295 10.4324/9781003583295 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Author Funding 2a1a5abe-5436-477a-913b-90b5c2c7facb 9781040534519 9781040667446 9781003583295 Routledge 304 Oxford [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Political anthropology Critical heritage studies Transitional justice Memory politics Museum studies Southeast Asian politics Cultural heritage power dynamics Myanmar thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology Stevens, Alicia Heritage, Power, and Liminality |
| title | Heritage, Power, and Liminality |
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| topic | Political anthropology Critical heritage studies Transitional justice Memory politics Museum studies Southeast Asian politics Cultural heritage power dynamics Myanmar thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology |
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