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0367552736 epub This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is heritage in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan post-nation. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work of public intellectual Stuart Hall (19322014). Hall was instrumental in calling out embedded elitist conceptions of The Heritage of Britain. The books authors challenge us to reconsider what is valued about Britains past, its culture and its citizens. Populist discourses around the world, including Brexit and culture war declarations in the UK, demonstrate how heritage and ideas of the past are mobilised in racist politics. The multidisciplinary chapters of this book offer critical inspections of these politics and dig deeply into the problems of theory, policy and practice in todays academia, society and heritage sector. The volume challenges the lack of action since Hall rebuked The Heritage twenty years ago. The authors featured here are predominantly Black Britons, academics and practitioners engaged in culture and heritage, spurred by the killing of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement to contest racist practices and structures that support them. This fact alone makes the volume a unique addition to the Routledge Museum & Heritage Studies repertoire. Read more