TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Giosa,Pierpaolo
TI  - World heritage and urban politics in Melaka, Malaysia: a cityscape below the winds 
T2  - Asian heritages
SN  - 9789048550500
AV  - DS599 .W675 2021
KW  - World Heritage areas
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Malacca (Malacca)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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