Gertjan Plets has published the article “Heritage statecraft: creating the state and instilling state ideas in the age of late capitalism” in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. This essay challenges conventional approaches to heritage politics by asserting that heritage is not merely a product of the state but a vital tool in shaping it.…
The PITCH project has published a groundbreaking special themed collection of articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies on Carbon heritages. All articles are published in OpenAccess format so they are free to access. Individual papers in the themed section consider museological collections connected to extractive industries and petrocultures in Germany, South Korea and…
Colin Sterling, Jeff Diamanti, Harry Reddick, and Selçuk Balamir have published the article “Inheriting energy infrastructures: from deindustrialisation to decarbonisation” in International Journal of Heritage Studies. Around the world, sites associated with coal, oil and gas are being transformed into ‘renewable’ energy hubs or cultural ‘incubators’ for the so-called green transition. This article argues that…
Nélia Dias and Mounir Sabeh Affaki have published the article “From exhibiting minerals to narrating extraction: reflections from Lisbon’s National Museum of Science and Natural History” in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. This paper focuses on two mineral exhibitions currently held at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) and aims to…
