International Relations and Heritage: Patchwork in Times of Plurality

Patchwork in times of plurality is a metaphor that aggregates and segregates, conforms but disfigures, and boosts the meanings that represent this new field of international relations. It studies the interconnection between cultural properties and international relations by understanding them as a mosaic before the bridges that intertwine people and borders. The book addresses topics related to the international agenda, focusing on its less debated themes, such as the link between actors, preservationist actions, and the universe of world cultural heritage. It also pursues a critical dialogue between interdisciplinary fields that narrow heritage frontiers in search of academic perspectives and (inter)national study cases.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 468 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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 pursues 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.

Weight: 730g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030779931
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021