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Recent Special Issues:
Globalized Heritage
Guest edited by Mads Daugbjerg (Aarhus, Denmark) and Thomas Fibiger (Aarhus, Denmark)
This special issue of History and Anthropology addresses a ‘global’ turn of heritage. It sets out to analyse and discuss the ways in which heritage issues have gained increasing attention in a world of globalization, and how certain aspects of heritage have come to be seen and practiced as transnational, cosmopolitan or ‘world heritage’. Today, heritage is a seemingly ubiquitous concept, embraced by actors and stakeholders across a number of industries and sectors, including tourism, urban planning and politics. This collection of papers points to the paradoxes and tensions often underlying ‘global’ heritage claims and understandings. Inquiring empirically into a number of developments which seem to point in global or cosmopolitan directions, we seek to shed light on the questions: in what senses have heritage and its concomitant understandings and practices become globalized? How are various forms of ‘globality’ constituted in opposition to, entanglement or even symbiosis with other identifications and mindsets of, for example, local and national scope? How are claims to globalized heritage assembled, appropriated and contested? And how do such claims and discourses relate to the everyday activities, practicalities and material aspects of heritage?
The Politics Lives of Documents
Guest Editors: Christopher Kaplonski (Cambridge) and Catherine Trundle (Victoria, NZ)
Documents are rarely finished. They may be amended, added to or censored. They come to be refilled, misfiled or transformed into new technological formats, and they can be distributed, withdrawn or elevated to iconic status. Documents stored within archives are particularly potent as political tools. Often imbued with new, unintended meanings over time, they can become testimonies, symbols of memory or legal evidence. In a range of contexts, the articles of this special issue will trace the political, material and relational genealogies of such documents as they are manipulated, and come to be agents in their own right, over time. The core question that this special issue will address is: How do the transformative and often unpredictable lives of archival documents shape political struggles and social change?
Rethinking Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology: Continuities and Ruptures
Guest Editors: Surekha Davis (Birkbeck) and Neil Whitehead (Wisconsin-Madison)
This special guest edited issue explores a variety of approaches to the historical study of encounters, ethnography and ethnology. It seeks to develop dialogue among scholars with interests in history, anthropology, literature, cultural theory, music, art history and visual and material culture. A key aim is to compare evidence from a variety of media, from antiquity to the present, in relation to several overarching questions: How did European categories and approaches for making sense of others change over time? What methodologies can be used to evaluate the relationships between what was being (or may have been) observed and what was recorded? Can the historiography on encounters, ethnography and ethnology consider together the evidence of different media, periods and regions?
Contested Nation-building within the International ‘Order of Things’: Performance, Festivals and Legitimization in South-Eastern Europe
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