Museums- & Denkmalkunde

Marie-Theres Albert, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus; Birgitta Ringbeck, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin.

Dieses kleine Buch liefert historisch belegte Fakten ungewöhnlicher Maßnahmen und raffinierter Ideen aus der langen Leidensgeschichte der Steuern und Abgaben, die Schlaglichter auch auf heutige Eigenwilligkeiten und empfundene Absurditäten der Steuergesetzgebung werfen. Die kurzen, leicht lesbaren Texte und ihr unterhaltsamer Charakter eignen sich perfekt, um sie als kleine Geschichten im Büro, in Reden oder in persönlichen Gesprächen aufzugreifen. Die übersichtliche, alphabetisch sortierte u

This book examines the development of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) in China through the angle of Chinese Theatre, xiqu. It focuses on the political and socio-economic transition period at the turn of the 21^st century, as China evolves from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’, highlighting associated class reconstruction and cultural production and consumption. There are many forms of Chinese Theatre, the most popular one throughout Chinese history to da

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in them

Paul Vickers is manager of the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS) and the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America at the University of Regensburg. His book, Making Popular Memory in Communist Poland, is forthcoming.

There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. Public participation is often presented as the primary means to prioritize communities. However, studies focusing on public participation are typically descriptive in nature and lack a strong analytical framework that enables us to understand participation. The essays

1. Neo-Coloniality and the Reconfiguration of Biopolitical Landscapes in Israel/Palestine
2. Slow Violence: Settler Colonial Production of Gaza’s Eastern ‘Border’
3. Ecocide and The Disappearing Trees of Gaza
4. Excursus: The Beit Hanoun Gaza Citrus Export Company
5. Escalating Warfare: Israeli Aerial Herbicidal Spraying
6. Creative Resistance: The Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege
7. Fast Violence: The Israeli army

Marie-Theres Albert and Britta Rudolf, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus; Rudolf Bernecker, German Commission for UNESCO, Bonn.

A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. The museum can thereby be directly linked to the site and its history. It is therefore vital to investigate the maritime museums in terms of relationships between landscape, architecture, museum and collections. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which ide