Walls and gateways: contested heritage in Dubrovnik

In 1979 Dubrovnik was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, which had consequences for the city's broader cultural heritage. Walls and Gateways explores how this status intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city's post-war context. It analy...

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Main Author: Loades, Celine Motzfeldt 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2022
Series:Explorations in heritage studies volume 3
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:In 1979 Dubrovnik was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, which had consequences for the city's broader cultural heritage. Walls and Gateways explores how this status intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city's post-war context. It analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik's heritage are embedded in particular cultural practices, materiality and place. In Dubrovnik's post-war context, different uses of cultural memory and heritage provoke both dissonance and unity, shape practices and mobilize cultural and political activism
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 353 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781800733558
DOI:10.1515/9781800733558

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