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In this geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the overlap between borders and heritage, Ali Mozaffari and David C. Harvey interrogate how “hyperglobalization” has simultaneously challenged ...
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  • 01 November 2025
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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. 

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Price: $135.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Series: Explorations in Heritage Studies
Publication Date: 01 November 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781836952336
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social, HISTORY/Historical Geography
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“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 University

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).

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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 Lähdesmäki

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, Elżbieta Opiłowska and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola

Chapter 7. The Walk of Peace: Heritage-Borders Complex between Slovenia and Italy
Marjeta Pisk and Špela 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.–México 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

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