Heritage in Action: Making the Past in the Present

Part I: Introduction.- 1. An Introduction to Heritage in Action (Emma Waterton, Steve Watson and Helaine Silverman).- Part II: Making and Remaking Heritage.- 2. The Case for Ethical Guidelines: Preventing Conflict in the Selection of World Heritage Sites (Michael Angelo Liwanag).- 3. Restoring a Nyingma Buddhist Monastery, Nepal (Hayley Saul and Emma Waterton).- 4. Reconnections (Steve Watson and Emma Waterton).- Part III: Stakeholder Challenges.- 5. The Formation of Heritage Elites: Talking Rights and Practicing Privileges in an Afro-Colombian Community (Maria Fernanda Escallon).- 6. Ethical or Empty Gestures?: World Heritage Nominations in Conflictual Contexts (Helen Human) .- 7. Encountering Migration Heritage in a National Park (Denis Byrne).- Part IV: Memories of War.- 8. Critical Heritage Debates and the Commemoration of the First World War: Productive Nostalgia and Discourses of Respectful Reverence during the Centenary (David C. Harvey).- 9. Lapland's Dark Heritage: Responses to the Legacy of World War II (Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto and Suzie Thomas).- Part V: Urban Contexts.- 10. Heritage Activism and Cultural Rights: The Case of the New Acropolis Museum (Kalliopi Fouseki and Maria Shehade).- 11. Public Perception and Conservation: The Case of Alexandria's Built Heritage (Lama Said and Yomna Borg).- Part VI: New Mobilities.- 12. What of Heritage in a Mobile World? Negotiating Heritage/Tourism/Community in Luang Prabang, Laos (Russell Staiff and Robyn Bushell).- 13. Heritage on the Go: Abbreviated Heritage in a Mobile World (Helaine Silverman).- 14. Moveable Feasts: Food as Revitalizing Cultural Heritage (Michael A. Di Giovine, Jonathan B. Mabry, and Teresita Majewski).- 15. Technologies, Technocracy and the Promise of 'Alternative' Heritage Values (Trinidad Rico).