• Public investment in heritage management originated in meeting the demands for conserving and restoring heritage loss in Europe following World War II, which generated large restoration and rebuilding programs. This was followed by urban and industrial expansion from the 1960s onwards, which spurred a new need to protect cultural heritage through planning and legislation. From the 1990s onward cultural tourism defined a new global economic sector and together with other new forms of heritage uses it expanded the job market, and new educational programs were introduced to meet these demands. However, today we witness another global ‘obsession’ with heritage, tangible and intangible, public and private, that redefines ‘heritagisation’ processes as an arena for the playing out of conflicts and ideologies of the present.

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HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

cultural heritage

Critical heritage studies

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