Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Framework -- The new heritage studies : origins and evolution, problems and prospects / William Logan, Ullrich Kockel and Máiréad Nic Craith -- PArt I : expanding heritage -- Heritage places : evoloving conceptions and changing forms / Neil A. Silberman -- From folklore to intangible heritage / Kristin Kuutma -- Cultural heritage and intellectual property : convergence, divergence and interface / Folarin Shyllon -- Intangible heritage and embodiment : Japan's influence on global heritage discourse / Natsuko Akagawa -- The politics of heritage in the land of food and wine / Marion Demossier -- (Re)visioning the Ma'ohi landscape of Marae Taputapuatea, French Polynesia : world heritage and indigenous knowledge systems in the Pacific Islands / Anita Smith -- The Kingdom of DEath as a heritage site : making sense of Auschwitz / Jonathan Webber -- The memory of the world and its hidden facets / Ance Claudia Prodan -- African indigenous heritage in colonial and postcolonial museums : the case of the Batwa of Africa's Great Lakes region / Maurice Mugabowagahunde -- Part II : using and abusing heritage -- valuing the past, or, untangling the social, political and economic importance of a cultural heritage site / Brenda Trofanenko -- Cultural heritage under the gaze of international tourism marketing campiagns / Helaine Silverman and Richard W. Hallett -- Heritagescaping and the aesthetics of refuge : challenges to urban sustainability / Tim Winter -- Cultural heritage as a strategy for social needs and community identity / Keir Reeves and Gertjan Plets -- Heritage in the digital age / MAria Economou -- World heritage and national hegemony : the discursive formation of Chinese political authority / Haiming Yan -- War museums and memory wars in contemporary Poland / Julie Fedor -- Heritage in an expanded field : reconstructing bridge-ness in Mostar / Andrea Connor -- Heritage under fire : lessons from Iraq for cultural property protection / Benjamin Isakhan -- The intentional destruction of heritage : Bamiyan and Timbuktu / Christian Manhart -- Heritage and politics of cultural obliteration : the case of the Andes / O. Hugo Benavides -- Part III : recasting heritage -- The economic feasibility of heritage preservation / Ron van Oers -- UNESCO and the cultural heritage : unexpected consequences / Christina Cameron -- The limits of heritage : corportae interests and cultural rights on resource frontiers / Rosemary J. Coombe and Melissa F. Baird -- Indigenous peoples' rights and the World Heritage Convention / Stefan Disko -- UNESCO, the World Heritage Convention and Africa : the practice and the practitioners / George Okello Abungu -- World Heritage Sites in Africa: what are the benefits of nomination and inscription? / Webber Ndoro -- Heritage in the "Asian Century" : responding to geopolitical change / Zeynep Aygen and William Logan -- (Re-)Building heritage : integrating tangible and intangible / Máiréad Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel -- The elephant in the room : heritage, affect and emotion / Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell --Cross-cultural encounters and "difficult heritage" on the Thai-Burma Railway : an ethics of cosmopolitanism rather than practices of exclusion / Andrea Witcomb -- Heritage and Cosmopolitanism / Lynn Meskell -- "Putting broken pieces back together" : reconciliation, justice and heritage in post-conflict situations / Patrick Daly and Benjamin Chan -- Acheiving dialogue through transnational World Heritage nomination : the case of the Silk Roads / Ona Vileikis -- World heritage : alternative futures / Britta Rudolff and Kristal Buckley -- Challenges for international cultural heritage law / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak -- The new heritage studies and education, training and capacity-building / William Logan and Gamini Wijesuriya -- Index.

This books outlines the key themes of research, including cultural preservation, environmental protection, world heritage and tourism, ethics, and human rights. It is accessibly organized into a substantial framework-setting essay by the editors followed by three sections on expanding, using and abusing, and recasting heritage Provides a cutting-edge guide to emerging trends in the field that is that is global in scope, cross-cultural in focus and critical in approach.