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Heritage statecraft
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.… Read more
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Article collection on Carbon heritages
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… Read more
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Inheriting energy infrastructures
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… Read more
