Border Straddling Heritages
Containment, Contestation, and Appreciation of Shared Pasts
Published on 1. November 2025
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-83695-233-6 (ISBN)
Description
The twin effects of ever-increasing mobility and rising globalization have done much to dislodge formerly stable social relations and our sense of time and place. In this exacting and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how this "hyperglobalization" has simultaneously challenged and intensified notions of sovereignty and nationality. Ranging from the impact of empathy in border-heritage work, to the Europeanization of war heritage narratives and border-heritage complexes in the Middle East, this volume illuminates the methodological implications of viewing heritage as both an engagement with the borders of the past and an activity that continually creates them.
Reviews / Votes
"This is an excellent collection of essays on the mutual constitution of heritage and bordering practices, with a wide-ranging geographical and geopolitical scope. The book manages a careful balance of theoretical richness and clear positioning in the field." * Chris Whitehead, Newcastle UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 21 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
571 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-233-6 (9781836952336)
DOI
10.3167/9781836952336
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Persons
Ali Mozaffari is Honorary Senior Fellow with the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, a former Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and serves as Vice President (Communications) of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies. He researches the geopolitics of the past, culture, and the built environment in West Asia. His publications include Heritage Movements in Asia (Berghahn Books, 2020), Development, Architecture and the Formation of Heritage in Late-Twentieth Century Iran (Manchester University Press, 2020), and World Heritage in Iran (Routledge, 2016). He co-edits Berghahn's Explorations in Heritage Studies and co-founded the Heritage and Transnationalism Network (ACHS).
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Heritage-Border Complexes: Parallels, Possibilities, and Consequences of Border-Straddling Heritage
Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey
Chapter 1. Karelian Heritage without Borders
Joni Vainikka
Chapter 2. The Role of Empathy in a Heritage-Border Complex
Tuuli Laehdesmaeki
Chapter 3. Fragile Frontiers: Visions on Iran's (In)Visible Borders
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Chapter 4. The Phantasmagorical Heritage of Fences
Iain Robertson
Chapter 5. Sovereignty, Identity and Assyrian Heritage: Dynamics Beyond Borders
Sofya Shahab and Shivan Toma
Chapter 6. Nothing Quiet on the Eastern Front: Multiple Versions of Europeanisation in War Heritage Narratives
Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Elzbieta Opilowska and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
Chapter 7. The Walk of Peace: Heritage-Borders Complex between Slovenia and Italy
Marjeta Pisk and Spela Ledinek Lozej
Chapter 8. Border as Bellwether and Heterotopia: Evolving Heritagescape of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) of Korea
Dacia Viejo Rose and Hyun Kyung Lee
Chapter 9. Archaeology and Straddling Heritage on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Randall H. McGuire
Chapter 10. Border-Straddling Heritage of Senegambia
Robert Steele
Epilogue: Reflecting on Heritage-Border Complexes
Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Heritage-Border Complexes: Parallels, Possibilities, and Consequences of Border-Straddling Heritage
Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey
Chapter 1. Karelian Heritage without Borders
Joni Vainikka
Chapter 2. The Role of Empathy in a Heritage-Border Complex
Tuuli Laehdesmaeki
Chapter 3. Fragile Frontiers: Visions on Iran's (In)Visible Borders
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Chapter 4. The Phantasmagorical Heritage of Fences
Iain Robertson
Chapter 5. Sovereignty, Identity and Assyrian Heritage: Dynamics Beyond Borders
Sofya Shahab and Shivan Toma
Chapter 6. Nothing Quiet on the Eastern Front: Multiple Versions of Europeanisation in War Heritage Narratives
Dorte Jagetic Andersen, Elzbieta Opilowska and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
Chapter 7. The Walk of Peace: Heritage-Borders Complex between Slovenia and Italy
Marjeta Pisk and Spela Ledinek Lozej
Chapter 8. Border as Bellwether and Heterotopia: Evolving Heritagescape of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) of Korea
Dacia Viejo Rose and Hyun Kyung Lee
Chapter 9. Archaeology and Straddling Heritage on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Randall H. McGuire
Chapter 10. Border-Straddling Heritage of Senegambia
Robert Steele
Epilogue: Reflecting on Heritage-Border Complexes
Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey
Index