Table of Contents

Part 1: Place and Identity 1. What Role Can Digital Heritage Play in the Re-imagining of National Identities? England and its Icons 2. Locating Art: The Display and Construction of Place Identity in Art Galleries 3. Place, Local Distinctiveness and Local Identity: Ecomuseum Approaches in Europe and Asia 4. Representing Identities at Local Municipal Museums: Cultural Forums or Identity Bunkers? 5. Heritage According to Scale Part 2: Remembering and Forgetting 6.Unsettling Memories: Intervention and Controversy Over Difficult Public Heritage 7. Public Silences, Private Voices: Memory Games in a Maritime Heritage Complex 8. The Banalization and the Contestation of Memory in Postcommunist Poland 9. A Landscape of Memories: Layers of Meaning in a Dublin Park Part 3: Domination and Contestation 10. Labor and Leisure at Monticello: Or Representing Race Instead of Class at an Inadvertent White Identity Shrine 11. The Ancient City Walls of Great Benin: Colonialism, Urban Heritage and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Nigeria 12. The Past in the Present: Towards a Politics of Care at the National Trust of Australia –WA 13. Yoruba Identity and Western Museums: Ethnic Pride and Artistic Representations

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Technical University of Lisbon