Heritage tourism in Southeast Asia

Hitchcock, Michael; King, Victor T.; Parnwell, Michael J. G.

doi:10.5860/choice.49-2138

Choice Reviews Online

2011

DOI: 10.5860/choice.49-2138

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Heritage tourism in Southeast Asia

Michael Hitchcock¹,

Victor T. King²,

Michael J. G. Parnwell³

Abstract: her articles on cultural representations, tourism, ethnic relations, museums and the politics of art have appeared in various edited volumes and journals, including American Ethnologist, Ethnology, Museum Anthropology, Annals of Tourism Research, and Tourist Studies.

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Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore

Teoh¹

2016

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This article examines the literal and figurative domestication of Straits Chinese, or Peranakan, history in selected heritage projects in late twentieth-century Malaysia and Singapore. These projects simultaneously foreground Straits Chinese history as a symbol of interracial harmony and marginalize it as a cultural artifact. Over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ethnoculturally hybrid Straits Chinese positioned themselves as "the King's Chinese," champions of a Confucian-values renaissance, and citizens of independent Malaysia and Singapore. Their adaptability helped them survive the upheaval of imperialism, decolonization, and nation building, but it was also controversial for its suggestion of political flexibility. Today, Southeast Asian governments and the Peranakan themselves depict the community as a uniquely local model of ethnic integration. Museums and historic homes emphasize portrayals and consumption of supposedly feminine aspects of Peranakan culture (e.g., fashion and cuisine), while downplaying purportedly masculine elements (e.g., the possession of multiple nationalities). By conflating femininity, tradition, and racial hybridity, this approach reifies stereotypes about gender and cultural identity, and replaces transgressive potential with politically anodyne nostalgia and commercialization. As anxieties about race, national history, and belonging continue to undergird the modern polity, transnationalism and transculturalism are acceptable as long as they are confined to the past.

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Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore

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2016

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A Cenotaph for Singapore: Contestation and Community at the Straits Settlements War Memorial

Eaton¹

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The Singapore Cenotaph is a First World War memorial built when the island-city was a British colony. The design of the monument and its use in Remembrance Day celebrations by the British colonial administration departed from the less overtly patriotic commemorative practices common in Europe in the 1920s. Regardless of the social significance the British administration hoped to vest in the monument when it was commissioned, contemporary English- and Chinese-language sources indicate that British authorities had little control over this ‘sacred’ space at the heart of their administrative capital, and the Asian populations of Singapore freely interpreted it as they wished, sometimes reworking the official meaning to suit their own ends.

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The Rise of Malaysian Heritage Non-Governmental Organizations (1969–2005)

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Two key Malaysian heritage NGOs were founded in the mid-1980s, Badan Warisan Malaysia (BWM) in Kuala Lumpur in 1983 and the Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) in 1985. Other NGOs, such as the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP, formed in 1969), Institut Masyarakat (Community Institute, mid-1970s) and Aliran (1977) had previously pursued heritage conservation as part of a broader agenda they termed ‘sustainable development’, opposing a development model used by town councils and state governments, as well as property developers, which replaced heritage buildings with shopping complexes, office towers, and tourist theme parks. This article traces the history of Malaysia’s heritage NGOs and their involvement in decades of ‘heritage battles’ prior to the passing of Malaysia’s National Heritage Act in 2005, reviewing the impact of their ideas of ‘sustainable development’ across several decades.

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Heritage tourism in Southeast Asia

Abstract: her articles on cultural representations, tourism, ethnic relations, museums and the politics of art have appeared in various edited volumes and journals, including American Ethnologist, Ethnology, Museum Anthropology, Annals of Tourism Research, and Tourist Studies.

Cited by 11 publications

References 74 publications

Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore

Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore

A Cenotaph for Singapore: Contestation and Community at the Straits Settlements War Memorial

The Rise of Malaysian Heritage Non-Governmental Organizations (1969–2005)

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