As with the three previous titles in the Cultures and Globalization Series, this is a cutting edge collection from an international group of authors. Heritage and memory in particular are key themes in international cultural and media studies.

Foreword - Pierre Nora Introduction - Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Dacia Viejo-Rose and Helmut K. Anheier PART ONE: CONFIGURATIONS OF HERITAGE, MEMORY, IDENTITY GLOBAL APPROACHES The Role of Narratives in Commemoration: Remembering as Mediated Action - James V. Wertsch and Doc M. Billingsley UNESCO and Heritage: Global Doctrine, Global Practice - Yudhishthir Raj Isar Destruction and Reconstruction of Heritage: Impacts on Memory and Identity - Dacia Viejo-Rose The Political Economies of Heritage - Tim Winter Unsettling the National: Heritage and Diaspora - Ien Ang Territorialization and the Politics of Autochthony - Jean-Pierre Warnier Grassroots Memorials as Sites of Heritage Creation - Cristina Sánchez-Carretero and Carmen Ortiz Sites of Conscience: Heritage of and for Human Rights - Liz Šev?enko ′Not Just a Place′: Culture Heritage and the Environment - Benjamin Morris Regional Realities Living Sacred Heritage and ′Authenticity′ in South Asia - Jagath Weerasinghe A Contested Site of Memory: The Preah Vihear Temple - Aurel Croissant and Paul W. Chambers Memory and Identity as Elements of Heritage Tourism in Southern Africa - Susan Keitumetse, Laura McAtackney and Gobopaone Senata Multiple Heritages, Multiple Identities: The Southwest Indian Ocean - Rosabelle Boswell Remembering and Forgetting Communist Cultural Production - Dragan Klaic Post-socialist Recollections: Identity and Memory in Former Yugoslavia - Zala Volcic Contemporary Creativity and Heritage in Latin America - Lucina Jiménez López Fields and Issues The Manipulation of Memory and Heritage in Museums of Migration - Julie Thomas Heritage, Memory, Debris: Sulukule, Don′t Forget - Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins Knowing the City: Migrants Negotiating Materialities in Istanbul - Yael Navaro-Yashin Divided Memories, Contested Histories: The Shifting Landscape in Japan - Akiko Hashimoto Memorialization and the Rwandan Genocide: The Use of Theatre - Ananda Breed Narrating Shared Identity - Brian Schiff, Carolina Porto de Andrade and Mathilde Toulemonde Listening Voices: On Actualizing Memories - Esther Shalev-Gerz Commentaries Intangibles: Culture, Heritage and Identity - Henrietta L. Moore From the Tower of Babel to the Ivory Tower - David Lowenthal PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES

This volume is of one of the most comprehensive in the field. Its three themes are critical for the study of culture and globalization with its condensation of space, time and memory. Heritage is the things from the past which people consider worth conserving and memorialising. Memory is the selective recall of significant cultural values and practices, especially in the context of migration and diaspora-formation. Identities are the self-definitions which individuals and groups construct for themselves and which heritage and memory have helped to shape. The essays explore the intersection between these three processes. They are learned, deeply researched and insightful, and the comparative range is impressive. The volume is certain to become a standard reference text for scholars and the general reader alike Stuart HallEmeritus Professor of Sociology at the Open University Anyone interested in the meaning of trans-national cultural life needs to read this book. As these essays disclose, the collective which remembers collectively today is now composed of men and women whose lives and families fragment with dizzying speed. That is why the terms memory, identity, and heritage matter so much. As a guide for the perplexed, this powerful assembly of essays contributes more than any other I know to disclosing and clarifying the complex spatial and temporal interactions governing cultural practices no longer confined to the nation stateJay WinterCharles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University