Overview
- Presents studies on the plurality of existing connections between international relations and the preservation of cultural heritage
- Interdisciplinary work presenting different perspectives from Latin America to Europe
- Valuable contribution to heritage studies
Part of the book series: The Latin American Studies Book Series (LASBS)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
Patchwork in times of plurality encompasses the multitude of actions as a revealing symbol of ethos, actors, organisms, and manifestations of preservation and dialogue frontiers. This plural metaphor, almost like a patchwork, aggregates and yet segregates, conforms, but disfigures, and boosts the meanings which represent this new field that international relations have been recently crossing. Just like the mirror metaphor - that reflects everything to all and, sometimes, intervenes in distortions - the patchwork analogy allowed the book to take responsibility for the disclosure of preservation actions on a global scale. The book has a pioneering role insofar since it is the only publication with such characteristics, concerns, and coverage. The work studies the interconnection between cultural properties and international relations by understanding them as a mosaic before the bridges that intertwine people and borders.
The main goal of this work is to illustrate in what way intergovernmental relations have been privileging heritage and culture as acting fields for its broader needs. Therefore, the book addresses topics related to the international agenda, focusing on its less debated themes. Two examples of these undervalued matters are the link between actors, preservationist actions, and the universe of world cultural heritage. The book also pursuits a critical dialogue between interdisciplinary fields that narrow heritage frontiers in search to contribute with a spectrum of academic perspectives and (inter)national study cases. To serve distinct economic, social, or political purposes, institutionalized heritage (embodied by different values) becomes instrumentalized in a top-down direction. In a development frame, when we perceive culture as indispensable to human life, the past is transformed into exchange currency. Through the creation of alternative fields of action, usually in a bottom-up logic, the present builds new heritage connections. Digital heritage's preservation, dissemination, and appreciation have been representing these same nets.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (22 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Between Bridges and Frontiers
-
Front Matter
-
-
Unfortunate Events of the Cultural Goods
-
Front Matter
-
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Relations and Heritage
Book Subtitle: Patchwork in Times of Plurality
Editors: Rodrigo Christofoletti, Maria Leonor Botelho
Series Title: The Latin American Studies Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77991-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77990-0Published: 31 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77993-1Published: 01 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77991-7Published: 30 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-3421
Series E-ISSN: 2366-343X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 468
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, International Relations, Cultural Geography