Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes Book

Preface ix

1 Cultural Contestation and the Symbolic Landscape: Politics by Other Means? Marc Howard Ross 1

2 The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Place: Ayodhya over Three Decades Richard H. Davis 25

3 Social Lives of the Dead: Contestation and Continuities in the Hawaiian Repatriation Context Greg Johnson 45

4 Flagging Peace: Struggles over Symbolic Landscape in the New Northern Ireland Dominic Bryan Clifford Stevenson 68

5 Conflict Transformation, Cultural Innovation, and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland Lee A. Smithey 85

6 Islamic Headscarves in Public Schools: Explaining France's Legal Restrictions Elaine R. Thomas 107

7 Minority Language Policy in France: Jacobinism, Cultural Pluralism, and Ethnoregional Identities Britt Cartrite 128

8 Symbols of Reconciliation or Instruments of Division? A Critical Look at New Monuments in South Africa Sabine Marschall 151

9 Emerging Multiculturalisms in South African Museum Practice: Some Examples from the Western Cape Crain Soudien 176

10 Strategies for Transforming and Enlarging South Africa's Post-Apartheid Symbolic Landscape Marc Howard Ross 193

11 Invisible House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History at Independence National Historical Park Charlene Mires 216

12 Politicizing Chinese New Year Festivals: Cold War Politics, Transnational Conflicts, and Chinese America Chiou-Ling Yeh 238

13 Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo: Irish, Jewish, and African American Efforts to Ban Racial Ridicule on Stage and Screen M. Alison Kibler 259

Epilogue Edward T. Linenthal 281

List of Contributors 287

Index 291