Claiming Back Their Heritage
Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through World Heritage
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Beschreibung
This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative interviews, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition of their collective rights to preserve their cultural heritage and assert their right to political, economic, cultural, and social self-determination. It also considers the prevailing universalistic discourses around World Heritage and the various ways in which they serve to either reinforce existing oppressive conditions regarding Indigenous communities and voices or provide opportunities to overcome them. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on social and cultural histories, histories of colonialism, and in heritage and museum studies.
This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative interviews, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition of their collective rights to preserve their cultural heritage and assert their right to political, economic, cultural, and social self-determination. It also considers the prevailing universalistic discourses around World Heritage and the various ways in which they serve to either reinforce existing oppressive conditions regarding Indigenous communities and voices or provide opportunities to overcome them. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on social and cultural histories, histories of colonialism, and in heritage and museum studies.
Winner of the 2025 Pierre Savard Award, awarded by the International Council for Canadian Studie for the best book written on a Canadian topic outside of Canada
Features in-depth case studies of three outstanding Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada Helps to understand the use and significance of heritage for Indigenous community development Presents many Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices and summarizes the complex debates concerning Indigenous heritage
Autor*in
Geneviève Susemihl
Themen in »Claiming Back Their Heritage«
World Heritage Site of SGang Gwaay and Gwaii Haanas Indigenous knowledges, worldviews and heritage World Heritage Site of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Tourism and resource management Indigenous community development World Heritage Site of Tr’ondëk-Klondike Indigenous World Heritage Sites Indigenous empowerment and voices Heritage management and postcolonialism UNESCO regulations on World Cultural Heritage