World heritage and urban politics in Melaka, Malaysia : a cityscape below the winds / Pierpaolo De Giosa.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Starter: Into a World Heritage City -- Note on Language(s) -- 1. A Cityscape below the Winds -- World Heritage on the Ground -- On Melaka -- Fieldwork in and beyond Melaka -- Outline of the Chapters -- 2. Heritage Affairs: Mouse-Deer, White Elephants, and Watchdogs -- Antiquities: The Beginning -- Museumification and Replication -- Projects of a Developmentalist State -- 'Where There Is Sugar, There Are Ants' -- Restructuring National Heritage -- Society and Heritage Affairs -- A Multilayered Heritage Haze

3. UNESCO and the City -- Tentative Steps: World Heritage Ambitions -- The Hybrid State of Nomination -- The State Party of Inscription -- The Negeri of Conservation -- Learning in the World Heritage Arena -- 4. Melakan Row Houses from the Ground Up -- Row Houses of Old Melaka: A Background -- Forsaken Buildings: The Post-war Period -- Revaluation: From RUMAH Kedai to Rumah KEDAI -- Housing Heritage: Some Approaches to Conservation -- Modellers of Conservation -- Mr. Chwee: A Lifelong Resident -- Mr. Billy: A Returnee -- Façadomy of Private World Heritage Properties

The Malleability of Conservation Rules -- 5. Divide and Brand: Public Space, Politics, and Tourism -- 'To Visit Historic Melaka Means to Visit Malaysia' -- Branding Streets in the Consociational Way -- From Jonker Street to Jonker Walk -- A Walk for Cari Makan -- 'We Do Not Need a "Harmony Street" -- We Are the City of Harmony!' -- A Political Tsunami in Jonker Street -- Politicized Heritage -- 6. A Melakan Ancestral Village beyond World Heritage -- The Chetti Community: A Background -- The Properties of the Ancestors -- The Making of a Kampung Warisan -- 'We Are Sitting on a Gold Mine!'

The Kampungscape and the High-rise -- 'See You on the Thirteenth Floor!' -- What World Heritage Thresholds Do -- 7. Epilogue of a Blessing and a Curse -- Ethnographies of World Heritage Cities -- A Transnational Mis(s-)understanding -- World Heritage Topographies of Exclusion -- Postscript: Inheriting the Cityscape -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Figures and Tables -- Table -- Table 4.1 Reasons to Preserve the Row Houses -- Figures -- Figure A St. Paul's Church -- Figure B Statue of St. Francis Xavier -- Figure C Porta de Santiago

Figure D Tourists posing in the Dutch Square. In the background: The Stadthuys, Tan Beng Swee Clock Tower, and Queen Victoria Fountain -- Figure E A view of historical shophouses and townhouses from Bastion Middleburg -- Figure F Kampung Kling Mosque -- Figure G Cheng Hoon Teng Temple -- Figure 1.1 Ruins of Bastion Victoria -- Figure 1.2 Map of Malaysia and 'Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca' -- Figure 1.3 Map of Melaka and the World Heritage site -- Figure 1.4 Elected members of the Melaka State Legislative Assembly in 2008, 2013, and 2018

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