Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Claiming Back Their Heritage

Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through World Heritage

  • Book
  • © 2023

Overview

Authors:
  1. Geneviève Susemihl

    1. English Department, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Features in-depth case studies of three outstanding Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada
  • Helps to understand the use and significance of heritage for Indigenous community development
  • Presents many Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices and summarizes the complex debates concerning Indigenous heritage

Part of the book series: Heritage Studies (HEST)

  • 855 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Geneviève Susemihl
    Pages 1-24

  3. Ideas, Concepts and Uses of Heritage

    • Geneviève Susemihl
    Pages 25-88

  4. Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through Heritage

    • Geneviève Susemihl
    Pages 89-145

  5. Consultation and Communication: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

    • Geneviève Susemihl
    Pages 147-237

  6. Collaboration and Cooperation: SGang Gwaay and Gwaii Haanas

    • Geneviève Susemihl
    Pages 239-329

  7. Indigenous Independence, Resilient Relations: The Tr’ondëk-Klondike

    • Geneviève Susemihl
    Pages 331-422

  8. Conclusion: Where to from Here?

    • Geneviève Susemihl
    Pages 423-442

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 443-447
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative interviews, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition of their collective rights to preserve their cultural heritage and assert their right to political, economic, cultural, and social self-determination. It also considers the prevailing universalistic discourses around World Heritage and the various ways in which they serve to either reinforce existing oppressive conditions regarding Indigenous communities and voices or provide opportunities to overcome them. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on social and cultural histories, histories of colonialism, and in heritage and museum studies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • English Department, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    Geneviève Susemihl

About the author

Geneviève Susemihl is a senior researcher and lecturer of North American literature, culture and media at Kiel University, Germany. She obtained a PhD in North American literature and culture with a dissertation on the immigration of German-Jewish refugees to New York and Toronto in 2004 and a post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in 2022. She was a stand-in professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Kiel University, an assistant professor at the Universities of Rostock and Greifswald, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Queen's Centre for International Relations at Queen’s University, and program manager and senior research associate at the Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her main areas of research are Heritage and Indigenous Studies. She has published extensively on Indigenous heritage, the construction of the American Indian in literature and culture, migration, and storytelling. She wrote the book Das indigeneKanada (The Indigenous Canada, 2023) and, together with Grit Alter, edited the book Teaching Canada I: Indigenous Peoples and Cultures (2023).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Claiming Back Their Heritage

  • Book Subtitle: Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through World Heritage

  • Authors: Geneviève Susemihl

  • Series Title: Heritage Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40063-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40062-9Published: 05 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40065-0Due: 05 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40063-6Published: 04 October 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2946-6059

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-6067

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 447

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology, Cultural Studies

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation